The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) issued a statement Wednesday calling upon nations to fulfill their obligation to protect human rights defenders and create an enabling environment for ...

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Most people in the region are living in countries with closed or repressed civic space where their freedoms to speak up, organize, or mobilize are under attack on a daily basis. The CIVICUS Monitor ...

“Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national ...

(Belém) – Brazil’s Congress should reject proposals to dismantle environmental licensing requirements and to revoke a plan to protect human rights defenders, Human Rights Watch said today. Instead, it ...

Addressing a letter to the UN for jailed women’s rights activists, human rights defenders have requested that the Special Rapporteurs "urge the government to stop prosecuting the expression of ...

One evening in January 2023, Indigenous leader Antonio Díaz Valencia and human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca vanished. Earlier that day, the men had participated in a community meeting ...

And outta that process, somebody gets appointed. So I was appointed. Now what I do is I try and implement insofar as I can, the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, which was adopted 27 years ago ...