Members of the European Burma Network (EBN) welcome the prospect of a continued Argentinian investigation into atrocity crimes against the Rohingya under the principle of universal jurisdiction. A rec...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) recently decided to initiate an investigation into war crimes committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, as well as to investigate the situation in Palestine. This...
The Swedish Postcode Lottery supports Civil Rights Defenders with SEK 16.7 million for the project “KEEPING DICTATORS AWAKE AT NIGHT – how a lottery service can keep a dictator sleepless a...
Civil Rights Defenders and several other member organisations from the Coalition for the ICC call on Ukraine to ratify the International Criminal Court (ICC) Rome Statute. In a joint letter to Volodym...
Nine Syrians now living in Sweden are submitting testimonies that describe torture, executions, the use of electric shocks, sexual violence, abuse, and starvation. The complaint ac...
Torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killing of political opponents, journalists, and other civilians are just some of the grave human rights violations committed over the course of the...
(The event is currently fully booked, but you can still register if you want to be on the waiting list. The information can be found further down) Torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial ex...
One year after the first reports about the anti-gay purge in the Chechen Republic were published, RFSL (Swedish Federation for LGBTQ Rights) and Civil Rights Defenders urge the Russian authorities to ...
In January 2017, more than 40 civil society organisations from Burma/Myanmar called for the establishment of an independent international commission to investigate what is being said to be an ongoing ...
In July, he was shot in an assassination attempt but survived. Now he receives the Swedish government award. The 2016 Per Anger Prize is awarded to 27-year-old Syrian-Palestinian human rights activist...
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