Urgent Actions
Cambodia: Refusal by the Supreme Court to grant bail to Ms. Yorm Bopha
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation inCambodia.
Read more...Pakistan: Assassination of Ms. Perveen Rehman
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 Pakistan.
Read more...Nazlie Bala, a human rights defender in Kosovo, was attacked outside her apartment on 27 March
She had recently received death threats after publicly supporting a law that would provide survivors of war crimes of sexual violence with compensation and rehabilitation. Amnesty International is calling for her protection.
Read more...Kosovo – Human rights defender Ms Nazlie Bala attacked and severely beaten
On 27 March 2013, Kosovan human rights defender Ms Nazlie Bala was attacked upon entering her apartment building and severely beaten.
Read more...Venezuela: Venezuelan cartoonist threatened: Rayma Suprani
Rayma Suprani, cartoonist and journalist with independent newspaper El Universal, began receiving threats on 18 March.
Read more...Nepal: Intimidation and Police Harassment of Occupy Baluwatar movement
Several sit-in protests recently held by the Occupy Baluwatar movement in front of the Prime Minister's residence in Baluwatar, Kathmandu, have been disrupted by police who also arrested several movement members
Read more...Take Action: Support Committee of relatives of the detained and disappeared (COFADEH), Honduras
Human rights defenders in the americas play a vital role in exposing and combating human rights violations. Many have paid a high price for their courageous efforts to break cycles of injustice, discrimination and impunity.
Read more...Pakistan: Killing of human rights defender Ms Perveen Rehman
On 13 March 2013, human rights defender Ms Perveen Rehman was shot and killed by armed motorcyclists, close to her offices. Perveen Rehman was a social and economic rights defender, working with communities in the slums of Karachi.
Read more...TAKE ACTION: Support the Popular women’s organization, Colombia
Human rights defenders in the americas play a vital role in exposing and combating human rights violations. Many have paid a high price for their courageous efforts to break cycles of injustice, discrimination and impunity.
Read more...Colombia – Explosive device detonated outside of offices of human rights organisations Catatumbo Campesino Association and Luis Carlos Pérez Collective Lawyers Corporation
On 13 March 2013, an explosive device was detonated outside the offices of Catatumbo Campesino Association and Luis Carlos Pérez Collective Lawyers Corporation.
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