#WHRDsDay | Protection International celebrates the launch of the Women Human Rights Defenders Quilt with Thai women HRDs and Canadian Ambassador to Thailand
20 December 2018, Bangkok – Protection International, together with the Canadian Ambassador to Thailand and 20 Thai women human rights defenders, celebrate today International Women Human Rights Defenders Day by launching the Women Human Rights Defenders Quilt, a craft and artistic project carried out by human rights defenders from Thailand accompanied by Protection International and […]
[Statement] Civil society organizations call for Germain Rukuki’s acquittal in Burundi
[Press release] String Quartets Take a Stand for Human Rights Defenders
Social media campaign #music4HRDs spread around the globe as quartets video themselves performing a piece dedicated to an HRD who has been murdered or abducted 16/11/2018 – Brussels, BE: In conjunction with today’s release of the string quartet album For Those Who Died Trying and leading up to the United Nations’s World Human Rights Day […]
SOMOS COMO TÚ – Los invisibles que luchan por su tierra, por la vida
Somos Como Tú es una campaña de PI y su socio colombiano PAS junto con otras organizaciones colombianas apoyando a comunidades campesinas colombianas para que puedan reivindicar sus derechos frente a la criminalización contra ellas y contrarrestar la estigmatización por parte de aquellos sectores que las tildan de pertenecer a grupos al margen de la […]
Carta a la CIDH – Protection International & CEJIL sobre la deportación del DDH Alejandro Cerezo – #SoydefensorNoCriminal
11/10/2018 – Protection International y el Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional informan a la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) sobre la deportación de Alejandro Cerezo, defensor de derechos humanos mexicano, el pasado 1 de octubre en la Ciudad de Panamá. En esta carta, dirigida a este órgano de la OEA encargado de la […]
Protection International and other international NGOs issue stark warning to Bolsonaro on climate change & #HumanRights
30/10/2018 – The policies proposed by Brazil’s new President, Jair Bolsonaro, threaten a human rights and environmental catastrophe with global implications. Brazil is already the deadliest country in the world in which to defend your land, with at least 57 people murdered last year, 25 of them in three massacres. Eighty per cent of these died […]
#ForThoseWhoDiedTrying & #ColombiaSomosComoTu – Protection International presenta dos exposiciones en el #HRDWorldSummit 2018
01/11/2018 – Protection International presentó dos exposiciones en la Cumbre Mundial de Defensores y Defensoras de Derechos Humanos 2018 en París (29-31 octubre 2018). Dos proyectos diferentes, de dos continentes diferentes, pero ambos abogando por la paz, la justicia y el derecho a defender los derechos humanos. SOMOS COMO TÚ Los invisibles que luchan por su tierra, […]
#ForThoseWhoDiedTrying & #ColombiaSomosComoTu – Protection International présente deux expositions au #HRDWorldSummit 2018
01/11/2018 – Protection International a présenté deux expositions au Sommet Mondial des Défenseur·se·s 2018 à Paris (29-31 octobre 2018). Deux projets différents, provenant de deux continents différents, mais défendant tous deux la paix, la justice et le droit à la défense des droits humains. SOMOS COMO TÚ Les invisibles qui se battent pour leur terre, pour la […]
#ForThoseWhoDiedTrying & #ColombiaSomosComoTu – Protection International presents two exhibitions at the #HRDWorldSummit 2018
01/11/2018 – Protection International presented two exhibitions at the Human Rights Defenders World Summit 2018 in Paris (29-31 October 2018). Two different projects, from two different continents, but both advocating for peace, justice, and the right to defend human rights. WE’RE LIKE YOU The invisible fighting for land and life We’re Like You is an artistic project […]
Thai WHRDs honored at the Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida, USA! #SidebySide
19/10/2018 – The photo project Side by Side – WHRDs 2018 featuring 20 women human rights defenders in Thailand by Luke Duggleby – British Bangkok-based global award-winning photographer- and Protection International, cross the ocean for the first time as part of the Southeast X Southeast exhibition. It is open to the public until 27th October at the Southeast Museum […]