Sandrine Raza :
Urgent call for international community
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We, the citizens of Madagascar, are raising our voices to the international community because our fundamental human rights are under threat.
For three years, many communities have been living without reliable access to water and electricity — resources that are not luxuries, but basic human rights essential to life, health, dignity, and development.
When we peacefully seek to claim these rights through public demonstrations, our government responds not with dialogue but with intimidation and repression:
• Citizens are prevented from even filing the legal request to hold a demonstration.
• Peaceful organizers are placed under arbitrary detention.
• Authorities invoke “order” not to regulate, but to silence and suppress.
⚖️Our rights are guaranteed by law
• Madagascar’s Constitution (Art. 10 & 13): guarantees freedom of peaceful assembly and prohibits arbitrary arrest.
• African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Art. 11): protects the right to peaceful assembly, restricting it only for legitimate public order reasons.
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Art. 21): recognizes the right to peaceful assembly, allowing restrictions only when strictly necessary in a democratic society.
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Art. 20 & 9): guarantees the right to peaceful assembly and prohibits arbitrary detention.
• UN Resolution 64/292 (2010): explicitly recognizes access to safe water and sanitation as a human right essential to life.
These are not abstract promises — they are binding commitments that Madagascar has ratified.
We declare:
• We do not want violence, bloodshed, or chaos.
• We are peaceful citizens demanding nothing more than our rights to water, electricity, dignity, and life.
• But today, the government’s refusal to respect our rights shows that democracy in Madagascar is being hollowed out.
🌍 Our call to the world
We urgently appeal to international human rights organizations, the African Union, the United Nations, and all democratic governments to:
1. Monitor and denounce the repression of peaceful protest in Madagascar.
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2025-09-25 13:57:11