Our slogan is: "Human rights are universal and indivisible"

The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) is a national non-profit association subject to the provisions of Law 12/06 of 12 January 2012 on associations. It was created in 1985 by a group of militants at their head Master Ali Yahia Abdenour its first president, currently honorary president. Officially recognized by the authorities on 26 July 1989 after the political opening up by the events of 5 October 1988.

Following the end of the electoral process in January 1992, followed by the outbreak of armed violence, LADDH chose the camp of human dignity, peace and national reconciliation. It denounced the massive human rights violations committed by the security services and Islamic armed groups for more than a decade. Thus, LADDH actively participated in the national contract in 1995 and in the appeal for peace in 1996.

Its positions of principle, its political autonomy, and its mobilization for the issue of enforced disappearances, made the LADDH an enemy organization in the eyes of the authorities.

The mission of the LADDH:

Defend individual and collective freedoms, in accordance with the UN Charter of Human Rights.
Combat arbitrariness, intolerance, injustice, oppression, repression, and all forms of racism and discrimination.
Defend the political rights of the citizen apart from any partisan action.
To denounce whatever motivations, violations characterized human rights and violations of freedom of thought, expression, assembly, cultural association and trade union.
To serve the cause of democracy by working for the constitution of the rule of law where power is subject to the law, limited by law and subordinated to law.
To work for the independence of justice so that it remains free from pressures, that it knows no other limit than that of right.
To provide assistance to any person whose right is violated or freedom threatened.
Publicly denounce the use of torture and torturers and carry out actions likely to eliminate this scourge.
Defend the economic social and cultural rights of the individual.
Working for equality in human rights and women's rights.
Defend and promote the rights of the child.
Generally promote and defend universal and indivisible human rights.