On Monday the 18th of June we closed the second round of Innovation Challenge 2018. The second round tested 16 of our applicants further, asking them to elaborate on their plans. The results are now b...
At Civil Rights Defenders we have a defender-centric approach. This essentially means that we put our human rights defenders at the centre of attention for our work. We try our very best to enable the...
What some ten years ago was separated out as ‘digital rights’, has now been so intensively intertwined with our everyday life that it currently affects us all, all of the time. And as digital rights a...
May 22 we closed the first round of Innovation Challenge 2018. We were amazed at the great turnout, 101 applications in total! Civil Rights Defenders would like to thank all of the participants for ma...
The concept of innovation is generally imbued with positive connotations, but often overlooked is the fact that governments are also innovative. Around the world, repressive governments are pouring im...
Two Cuban human rights defenders from the Cuban province of Villa Clara were prohibited from travelling to a Civil Rights Defenders training in Colombia on May 1st. The police patrolled outside the ho...
With our news feeds filled with articles about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Cambridge Analytica, we gathered at the Swedish Institute of Foreign Affairs to listen to a panel discussion on the ...
Today marks the start of Civil Rights Defenders’ annual Innovation Challenge. The competition, which is financed by the Swedish Postcode Lottery, is open for anyone to apply. The mission is to develop...
Civil Rights Defenders is proud to present a beta-version of the Defenders’ Database. It all began when the organisations Hablemos Press and The Cuban Commission of Huma...
April 5, 2018 Visiting Santiago de Cuba in October 2017, the UNPACU (Unión Patriotica de Cuba) leadership informed us that it is impossible for them to organise public activities due to the repression...
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