
Urgent Action: 28 miners missing in Venezuela
Twenty-eight informal gold miners have been reported missing in Venezuela. Other members of the community may be at risk.

Urgent Action: Human rights defender sick in prison in Azerbaijan
Tales Khasmammadov's health has continued to deteriorate in prison and he is not receiving adequate medical care in the prison’s hospital.

Urgent Action: Year in prison for peaceful protest in Algeria
Abdelali Ghellam was sentenced in March 2016 to one year in prison for taking part in a peaceful protest in December 2015.

Urgent Action: People with albinism under threat in Malawi
Thousands of people with albinism and their families in Malawi are living in fear of attacks, killings, abductions and mutilations.

Urgent Action: Three journalists face prison in Cameroon
Cameroonian journalists Baba Wame, Felix Ebole Bola and Rodrigue Tongue are on trial for not disclosing their sources.

Urgent Action: Witness to murder at risk in Honduras
Mexican human rights defender Gustavo Castro Soto, who witnessed the murder of Berta Cáceres, is at risk in Honduras.

Urgent Action good news: Six men free after sentence reduced in Tunisia
Six Tunisian men convicted of “sodomy” were found guilty but not returned to prison after their sentence was reduced on appeal.

Urgent Action: Whereabouts unknown of disappeared men in Syria
There whereabouts of student Adel Barazi and three other men who were arrested together with him remain unknown.

Urgent Action: Lawyer Supporting Churches Still Detained in China
Human rights lawyer Zhang Kai, was transferred to Wenzhou Detention Centre under criminal detention on 26 February 2016.

Urgent Action: Humanitarian Crisis in Greece
Thousands of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are trapped in Greece in dire conditions, with no access to protection due to arbitrary and discriminatory border closures.