Democracy Day: Human Rights Defenders Under Attack
This year’s International Day of Democracy (16 September) is an opportunity to recall that democracy is about people. Democracy is…
UN Calls on Saudi Arabia to Release Jailed Human Rights Defenders
Concerned over the continuing arrests and “apparently arbitrary detentions” of human rights defenders – including campaigners who lobbied for an…
Attacks on Human Rights Defenders Increasing in India: Amnesty
People who promote and defend human rights continue to face an onslaught of harassment, intimidation, unjust prosecution and unlawful detention.…
UN Demands Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Honduras
At the end of a three-day visit to Honduras, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Andrew Gilmour, underlined “the paramount…
Human Rights Defenders Attacked in Russia
The violent assault on human rights defenders (HRDs) and journalists in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia is further evidence of…
Protest: Release Human Rights Defenders in China
The Newseum displays a series of banners on the front of its building at Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street that…