Abdifatah Hassan Ali is a Somali blogger and social media activist. He is determined to bring attention to issues of social injustice and impunity and believes that social media can be a tool to bring...
Promoting and protecting civil and political rights has never been free of risk. Under pretense of national security, public order, or morals, repressive regimes may intensify their efforts to silence...
On 1 November, Ukrainian human rights defender and LGBTI+ activist Olena Shevchenko was attacked by two unknown perpetrators in Kyiv, Ukraine. The attackers shouted homophobic slurs and caused moderat...
This autumn marked the start of the first semester of LiU Changemakers – a collaborative innovation programme by Civil Rights Defenders and Linköping University. Through the programme, students at Lin...
Can university students and the world’s human rights defenders work together to protect and promote y(our) human rights? In order to find out, Civil Rights Defenders has teamed up with Linköping Unive...
It started as any other day. Natalia Estemirova, the head of the Russian human rights group Memorial’s office in Chechnya, stepped outside of her apartment building, making her way to the bus st...
About a year and a half ago, in Civil Rights Defenders we developed and accounting tool that would make financial reporting much easier for our partners. Many of the organisations we work with are bas...
In 2009 and 2010, Hablemos Press (CIHPress) and the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) started publishing monthly reports on human rights violations committed by the...
Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) is an annual conference held in Stockholm hosted by Sida where several hundred human rights defenders and civil society actors gather to discuss development issues and h...
Online IQ is online video guides on how to increase your digital security and to secure your smartphone and apps, such as Facebook, Google, WhatsApp and Signal. Watch all videos here. All video guides...
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