Today, Civil Rights Defenders launches the book Frontera Común (Shared Border), which gathers six experiences of human rights defenders who risk their lives along the dividing line between Colomb...
The influential Venezuelan legal organisation Foro Penal has been awarded the Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award 2023. Thanks to their tireless work, thousands of arbitrarily detained protesters,...
Voices from Defenders’ Days Close-up with Abraham Pedraza, Coordinator Un Mundo Sin Mordaza in Venezuela. Abraham Pedraza is a Venezuelan human rights defender. For the past five years, he has be...
The human rights crisis along the border between Colombia and Venezuela is a regional challenge and cannot be solved by efforts on just one side of the border. A new report from Civil Rights Defenders...
On 2 July, Venezuelan human rights defenders Javier Tarazona, Rafael Tarazona, and Omar García from the organisation Fundaredes were detained by Venezuelan authorities for inciting hatred, treason, an...
On 25 April, Venezuelan human rights defender Orlando Moreno was assaulted and detained by agents of Venezuela’s Scientific, Penal, and Criminal Investigation Service Corps (CICPC). The assault is one...
The recent, ongoing and unwarranted detention of five members of the Venezuelan NGO ‘Azul Positivo’ is one more event in a series of threats, harassment, attacks, restrictions, reprisals and criminal ...
As the election to Venezuela’s national assembly on 6 December are drawing near, the country’s political crisis persists and deepens. President Maduro will seize control of the assembly and his govern...
During the year, we have interviewed a number of Venezuelan human rights defenders who each play a central role in the struggle for a new and democratic Venezue...
During the year, we have interviewed a number of Venezuelan human rights defenders who each play a central role in the struggle for a new and democratic Venezuela. In a series...
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