We wanted to highlight two stories from Bangladesh that caught our attention this month, both involving women human rights defenders…
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Human rights work is not a crime. Yet across Türkiye, those defending human rights continue to face detention, criminalisation and…
Mali’s civic space continues to shrink under military rule, with repeated waves of repression targeting defenders and journalists in recent…
Azerbaijan has, over the past two years, tightened its grip on independent journalism and civil society to an extent that…
In recent months, journalists and human rights defenders alike have been hit with heavy sentences, often for simply speaking out….
Environmental defenders are winning real victories, in courtrooms, in communities, in policy. But repression is rising just as fast: stigmatisation,…
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the paediatrician and former director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, is now facing what his lawyer describes…
Over the past two months, Sahrawi human rights defenders in occupied Western Sahara have faced an escalating campaign of sieges,…
30 Juil: Pakistan: Life Sentences, Arbitrary Detention, and Seventeen Years of Waiting for the Truth
Three cases from Pakistan this month underline the same pattern: human rights defenders who report on state repression, or who…
Across India, human rights defenders, journalists, and labour activists are facing an escalating pattern of arbitrary detention, torture, and judicial…
