The Russian State Duma will consider proposed amendments to the 2012 Foreign Agents law on 15 December 2020. These amendments pose serious consequences to an already embattled civil society. The top t...
The Ukrainian LGBTI+ activist Olena Shevchenko is one of the participants in our security programme, the Natalia Project. Olena and her colleagues are an important voice for human rights in Ukraine. T...
Civil Rights Defenders has entered a partnership with Tele2. The telecommunications operator will provide IoT connectivity to our Natalia Project – a global security system protecting human rights def...
Génesis Dávila is the director and founder of Defiende Venezuela. Together with her colleagues, she reports cases of human rights violations. She fights for accountability and justice for victims of p...
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...
South Sudanese human rights defender Edmund Yakani has been subjected to death threats after being invited, among other stakeholders, to participate in a consultative meeting held in Juba this morning...
Late last week, Brian Wasswa, a young LGBTI+ activist and paralegal professional, was murdered in his home in Uganda. Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the brutal&...
After graduating last December, the moment many students feared had arrived. The structured, predictable path that University had provided me for six years had now come to an end, and it was the momen...
In a gross violation of his human rights, Oyub Titiev, human rights activist and director of Memorial in Chechnya, was today sentenced to four years in a penal colony settlement. Civil Rights Defender...
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