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Pecyn adnoddau Camau Cyntaf (First Steps resource Welsh)

This resource in Welsh is designed to support teachers to introduce human rights to children aged 3-5.

Urgent Action: Forcibly married, raped girl sentenced to death in Sudan

Nineteen year old, Noura Hussein Hamad Daoud, was sentenced to death on 10 May for killing her husband in self-defence.

UA 95/18 issued 15/05/2018

Urgent Action update: Guantánamo transfer policy under wraps

The US Secretary of Defense has sent the White House his policy recommendations on detainee transfers to Guantánamo.

1st update on UA 42/18 issued 11/05/2018

Urgent Action good news: Ankara pride march no longer at risk

The student-organized Pride march gathering hundreds of university students went ahead peacefully on 11 May.

1st update on UA 83/18 issued 11/05/2018

Urgent Action: Peaceful protester in pre-trial detention in Russia

On 7 May, Dzerzhinsky District Court in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, remanded Mikhail Tsakunov in pre-trial detention.

UA 90/18 issued 10/05/2018

Urgent Action: Up to 20 years in Maldives prison on trumped-up charges

Ahmed Mahloof faces charges including “terrorism” and “obstruction of police duty” for taking part in peaceful protests.

UA 91/18 issued 11/05/2018

Urgent Action update: Civil activist released from psychiatric facility in Kazakhstan

Ardak Ashym has been released from the psychiatric facility. The criminal investigation against her is still ongoing.

1st update on UA 82/18 issued 09/05/2018

Urgent Action: Human rights activist unable to leave Equatorial Guinea

Ramón Esono Ebalé remains unable to leave Equatorial Guinea due to authorities failing to provide him with a passport.

UA 89/18 issued 09/05/2018

Urgent Action good news: Activist's not guilty verdict upheld on appeal in South Korea

Lee Jin-young, operator of the online library ‘Labour Books’, was found not guilty.

2nd update on UA 20/17 issued 09/05/2018

Urgent Action good news: Israeli government stops forced deportations

The Israeli government has declared that it will not pursue forcible deportations of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers

1st Update on UA 064/18 issued 08/05/2018