Sometimes it feels like only bad things are happening in the world, especially so this year. So here are some good things that happened during 2020! Sweden The Stockholm Police was in the wrong t...
Among the hundreds of arrests made during recent anti-government protest in Albania a number of independent journalists have been detained, adding to the growing deterioration of media freedoms in the...
We’re happy to announce the launch of the second season of The Human Rights Defender; a podcast series which looks at the lives and work of brave individuals standing up for our human rights. In Seaso...
Marking the International Women Human Rights Defenders Day (29 November) we’re releasing an episode of The Human Rights Defender podcast speaking about WHRDs and the increasingly precarious role they ...
In Belarus, the protest movement is still going strong. Every Sunday since the presidential election in August, tens of thousands of Belarusians have been taking to the streets to protest against Luka...
Online seminar on the human rights situation in Venezuela, with comments and discussions by Venezuelan and Russian human rights defenders. About the seminar The human rights violations in Venezuela ar...
Four years ago, we launched the Gerald Nagler Human Rights Traineeship for lawyers at the beginning of their careers. The traineeship takes place at the headquarters of Civil Rights Defenders in Stock...
On Sunday, 9 August, thousands of people went to the streets across Belarus. Official exit polls had announced another landslide victory for President Lukashenka, the sixth in a row. The protests were...
As Belarus is well into the campaign ahead of the presidential election on 9 August, we witness both old practices and some surprising changes compared to previous presidential elections. The co...
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