Defenders’ Database

The Defenders’ Database (DiDi) is a database for human rights defenders. A database to register human rights violations, analyse as well as share information.

Being a defender in Cuba

Defenders' Database
7 August 2018

“I spent 6 months in prison and after that my studies to become an accountant was over”. She is 29 years old and lives in Cuba where arbitrary detentions are occurring daily. Every month people are be...

Civil Rights Defenders Start Registering Cuban Human Rights Defenders That Are Stopped When Trying to Leave the Country

Defenders' Database
4 May 2018

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...

Presenting the Defenders’ Database

Defenders' Database, Latin America, News
5 April 2018

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...