Session 4: change
Students learn that everyone has a role to play in upholding human rights – in their school, community and world.
Urgent Action: Teen arrested at 14 still at risk of execution in Iran
Iranian teenager remains at risk of execution after his execution scheduled for 17 January was postponed.
Urgent Action good news: Tatar activist and prisoner of conscience released in Russia
On 27 Dec 2017, Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov was released from prison after having served the full three-year sentence
Urgent Action Update: Human rights defenders in Honduras under attack
Violence against human rights defenders monitoring and denouncing the violent repression of protests has increased
Urgent Action Update: Prisoner of conscience in Bahrain denied medication
Hassan Mshaima one of 11 jailed prominent Bahraini opposition activists, is being denied adequate healthcare in detention
Urgent Action: Two indigenous activists face life imprisonment in India
Two activists have been arrested for their role in the resistance to forced acquisition of land for a steel plant
Urgent Action: Opposition member alleges torture in Sudan prison
Radwan Daoud alleges that he has been subjected to torture while in the custody in Khartoum
Urgent Action Update: Human rights defender’s appealed sentence upheld in Bahrain
Two-year prison sentence upheld against human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab
Urgent Action update: Independent journalist in Uzbekistan must be immediately released
The family of independent journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev was allowed to see him for the first time in three months.