Urgent Action Update: Attack causes forced displacement in Colombia
The binational Indigenous Yukpa people suffered an armed attack on 17 May followed by their forced displacement
Urgent Action: Homes of religious minority destroyed by mob in Indonesia
Police evacuated at least 23 members of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in East Lombok to another town.
Urgent Action update: Execution looms for Iranian Kurdish prisoner
Iranian Kurdish prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi, sentenced to death in January 2018, is at imminent risk of execution.
Urgent Action: Indigenous defender killed, others at risk in Mexico
Indigenous environmental rights defender Manuel Rodríguez was found dead on 14 May. Others are at grave risk.
Urgent Action: Detained for addressing sexual harassment in Egypt
Egyptian authorities ordered the pre-trial detention of woman human rights defender Amal Fathy for a total of 30 days.
Urgent Action: Displaced women, children denied food in Nigeria
Approximately 230 internally displaced women and their children have not had food delivered to their camp since 18 April.
Urgent Action: Activist held immediately after returning home in Zambia
Fumba Chama, known as Pilato, was arrested on 16 May on arrival at Kenneth Kaunda Airport in Lusaka.
Urgent Action: Men convicted for exercising freedom of speech in Somaliland
Two men have been convicted for publicly exercising their rights to the freedom of expression.
Urgent Action: Serious health concerns for prisoner of conscience in Vietnam
Trần Anh Kim's health is deteriorating and according to his wife, “may not survive his lengthy imprisonment”
Urgent Action: Hundreds left homeless by forced evictions in Uganda
Ugandan soldiers have been forcibly evicting communities in the Apaa area. So far, more than 250 homes have been burnt.