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Human rights defenders (741)
Mar 8 2019 5:30pm
Write For Rights 2018 wrap up
We’re still counting – but it looks like well over five million pe...
Mar 5 2019 10:18am
Urgent Action update: Women’s rights defender faces 34 years in jail
Prominent detained Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, faces...
Mar 4 2019 12:03pm
Urgent Action: NGOs and human rights defenders at risk
Proposed legislative reform in Guatemala would impose undue restrictio...
Feb 28 2019 3:21pm
Urgent Action: Environmental rights defender killed
Samir Flores Soberanes, environmental, land and territory human rights...
Feb 26 2019 1:59pm
Urgent Action: Prominent defender must be released
The final hearing in the trial against Oyub Titiev, prominent human ri...
Feb 26 2019 11:30am
Urgent Action update: Human rights lawyer at risk of torture
Beijing human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has been indicted and his case...
Feb 26 2019 10:26am
Urgent Action update: Indigenous human rights defenders at risk
Armed men abducted Mexican Indigenous human rights defenders, Obtilia ...
Feb 21 2019 11:49am
Urgent Action: Saudi activist held in solitary confinement
Woman human rights defender, Nassima al-Sada, was placed in solitary c...
Feb 21 2019 9:24am
NGO's 'being bullied into silence' around the world - new report
Anti-NGO laws have been implemented or are in the pipeline in 50 count...
Feb 20 2019 2:36pm
Urgent Action update: Pre-trial detention for human rights defender
On 9 February, a judge ordered the pre-trial detention of human rights...