Online course: Security and protection management for Human Rights Defenders

We are pleased to announce the opening of the registration for the online course “Security and Protection Management for Human Rights Defenders and Social Organisations” mainly addressed to NGOs, social organizations, and persons interested in the security work for HRD, their organizations, and/or communities. Why take this course? Education and training for Human Rights Defenders is a broad subject […]

Statement by Women of Thailand Coalition for 67th CEDAW session

To the Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 3 July 2017 Thank you, Madam Chair, for allowing us to address the Committee on behalf of the civil society organizations which are present here today.[1] It has been 32 years since Thailand ratified CEDAW. Since that time we have had 14 […]

In Harm´s Way: Women Human Rights Defenders in Thailand – Joint Report

PRESS RELEASE Thailand: Women human rights defenders at heightened risk of attacks and intimidation Publication of a joint report Bangkok-Geneva-Paris, July 3, 2017 – Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in Thailand are at heightened risk of attacks and intimidation since the May 22, 2014 coup d’état, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (an […]

David Ravelo is freed after nearly seven years in prison

Colombian human rights defender David Ravelo Crespo left prison on 20th June 2017. As reported by Peace Brigades International (PBI), Ravelo was detained and incarcerated on 14th September 2010, accused of being the intellectual author of the 1991 murder of David Núñez Cala, a civil servant from Barrancabermeja. On 5th December 2012, the Specialised Criminal […]

Irregularidades a pesar del cierre temporal del proyecto minero en La Puya.

El martes 5 de enero del 2016, el Concejo Municipal de San Pedro Ayampuc ejecutó una diligencia administrativa dentro de la finca donde se encuentra el proyecto minero Progreso VII Derivada, mina “El Tambor”, esta acción se realizó con acompañamiento de la Policía Nacional Civil del municipio, respondiendo a la solicitud de dicha resolución municipal, esta Medida […]

Research Findings: ‘Navigating Risk, Managing Security, and Receiving Support’

Alice Nah, our Board Director, developed with the Centre for Applied Human Rights of York University a research project on ‘Navigating Risk, Managing Security, and Receiving Support’ focusing on the experiences of human rights defenders in Colombia, Mexico, Kenya, Egypt, and Indonesia. The research findings are available in English, Arabic, Spanish, Kiswahili, and Bahasa Indonesia. The website also includes […]

Indonesian UPR Session in UN Human Rights Council – Press Statement

Press Statement “Response to Indonesian UPR Session in UN Human Rights Council” Indonesian civil society expresses its greatest appreciation to the Government of Indonesia which has exhibited its commitment to cooperate openly and dialogically with the international human rights mechanism by attending the Universal Periodic Review Session (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council on […]

The Southern Peasants’ Federation of Thailand is under attack

Unprecedented case of judicial harassment of land rights defenders in the South of Thailand Fifteen land rights defenders members of the Nam Deang Pattana Development Community (Surathani Province), two of them women human rights defenders have been charged with three criminal offenses. This community belonging to the Southern Peasants’ Federation of Thailand (SPFT) has been […]

Guatemala – Agresiones contra el Director Legal de CALAS

Denuncia ante las Agresiones Contra Pedro Rafael Maldonado Flores Director Legal de CALAS Guatemala, 6 de abril de 2016 – El Foro de ONG Internacionales en Guatemala, del que Protection international forma parte, expresa su mas alta preocupacion y condena ante las agresiones en contra del abogado, defensor de derechos humanos y activista ambiental, Pedro Rafael Maldonado […]