Appeals & Urgent Actions
Women`s Learning Partnership: Women’s and Human Rights Organizations Concerned for the Safety of Shirin Ebadi
December 30, 2008
"We, the undersigned, representing women’s and human rights organizations working in Muslim-majority countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, express our grave concern for the personal safety of Shirin Ebadi." Please join in voicing your support for Ms. Ebadi.
Read more...Urgent Appeal/Action: FIDH: Zimbabwe: Activist still missing: Enforced disappearance of Ms. Jestina Mukoko
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Zimbabwe.
Read more...Urgent Appeal/Action: Human Rights First: Iran Must Respect Defenders' Right to Travel
On December 10, women's rights activist and attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh and her family went to the Imam Khomeini Airport. They planned to travel to Italy, where Sotoudeh was to receive an international human rights award.
Read more...Urgent Appeal/Action: Philippines: The Defense of Women Human Rights Defenders in the Southern Tagalog Region
Political persecution is on the rise and human rights violations remain unabated in the Philippines. As extra judicial killings, abductions and disappearances continue, leaders and members of militant and progressive organizations in the Southern Tagalog region now face fabricated legal offensives in an attempt to immobilize those critical of the Arroyo administration.
Read more...Algeria: Woman sentenced to 10 years for allegedly damaging a Quran
23/10/2008: According to Algerian Newspaper El Watan, last September a young women aged 26 was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Biskra, southern Algeria, where she is already detained for previous offence. She is accused of having damaged a Quran.
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