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May 10 2019 5:05pm
Urgent Action: Stop harassment of human rights activist
On 6 May at around 6am the police raided the home of prominent human r...
May 9 2019 4:23pm
Urgent Action outcome: Activist released after being rearrested
Azerbaijani activist Bayram Mammadov was released on 29 April after ha...
May 8 2019 4:28pm
Urgent Action: Fears of activist’s enforced disappearance
Indigenous rights activist Michael Chakma has been missing since 9 Apr...
May 3 2019 10:58am
Urgent Action correction: End attacks against human rights defenders
It has come to our attention that the email address originally indicat...
Apr 30 2019 4:19pm
The women risking their lives to save the planet
This is a guest blog by Graham Minter, volunteer Country Coordinator. ...
Apr 30 2019 9:12am
Ecuador: women environmental defenders in life-threatening danger due to government failings
New Amnesty International report shows Ecuadorian authorities are fail...
Apr 29 2019 11:07am
Urgent Action: End attacks against human rights defenders
On 22 April, Cristina Palabay of Philippines-based human rights allian...
Apr 17 2019 11:21am
Urgent Action good news: Anti-military peaceful protester released early
Activist Tin Maung Kyi was released 13 days early on 29 March 2019 aft...
Apr 17 2019 10:10am
Urgent Action correction: Human rights defender on hunger strike
Please find attached the revised version of the First UA 47/19 on Ahme...
Apr 15 2019 2:37pm
Urgent Action update: Nine umbrella movement leaders convicted
Nine leaders of the 2014 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests have each be...