Tag: defenders
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Amnesty delegation meets abortion defenders as backlash against human rights intensifies
An Amnesty International delegation will join abortion providers and defenders from across the globe at…
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Civic Space and Environmental Human Rights Defenders: Essential for Achieving Climate Justice
The protection of civic space and the ability of Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs) to…
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Sentencing of land defenders sends ‘chilling message’
The sentencing of three land defenders criminalized by Canada sends a chilling message about the…
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International human rights organizations to monitor sentencing of Indigenous land defenders
Amnesty International, Peace Brigades International and Front Line Defenders will be closely monitoring the sentencing…
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Raising their voices: WHRDs respond to the human rights crisis Joint Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Defenders by the organizers and participants of the 2025 Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Advocacy Week
The “Women Human Rights Defenders Advocacy Week” has taken place for several years to facilitate…
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Criminal justice system used to punish defenders
Amnesty International warns that the state of exception extended by the government and reforms to…
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HOW COULD THIS VERDICT BE ‘LEGAL’? THE ROLE OF CHINA’S COURTS IN TARGETING HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS
Chinese courts are systematically weaponizing vague national security and public order laws to silence human…
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China: Courts used as tools of systematic repression against human rights defenders
Chinese courts are systematically weaponizing vague national security and public order laws to silence human…
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PROPOSED CRITERIA FOR SELECTION AND APPOINTMENT OF A NEW MANDATE HOLDER ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS
This document was prepared by civil society organisations to support all stakeholders in the dissemination…
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Civic space and human rights defenders
Civic space and human rights defenders admin Mon, 09/27/2021 – 09:27 OHCHR: Protecting and expanding…