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Human rights defenders (746)
Nov 20 2018 4:57pm
Urgent Action: Human rights defender brutally attacked
Alfredo Okenve, an Equatorial Guinea human rights defender was brutall...
Nov 20 2018 11:05am
Urgent Action: NGOs in India at risk of shut down
Amnesty India and Greenpeace India have been targeted by the Governmen...
Nov 12 2018 3:15pm
Urgent Action Update: Lawmaker’s administrative detention renewed
Israel renews, for the third time and without charge or trial, the adm...
Nov 6 2018 11:55am
Urgent Action update: Ongoing punishment for prisoner of conscience in Vietnam
Human rights defender Trần Thị Nga is being punished by prison authori...
Nov 5 2018 2:49pm
Urgent Action: Journalists and activists threatened in Mozambique
Local journalists and civil society activists have received anonymous ...
Nov 1 2018 6:14pm
Egypt: at least 19 human rights activists arrested in 'chilling' new crackdown
‘Anyone who dares to speak out about human rights violations in Egypt ...
Oct 31 2018 3:24pm
World summit brings surge of new commitments to protect human rights defenders
Human rights defenders from across all corners of the world gathered t...
Oct 30 2018 3:00pm
Urgent Action: Several indigenous organizations threatened in Colombia
The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) reported that ...
Oct 23 2018 3:21pm
Urgent Action: Environmental defender's home set on fire in Ecuador
Environmental defender Margoth Escobar could be at risk after her home...
Oct 22 2018 3:06pm
Urgent Action: Chinese refugees at risk of refoulement from Thailand
Chinese human rights defenders YANG Chong and WU Yuhua, UNHCR-recogniz...