Commemorating International Day of Enforced Disappearances in Nairobi
Nairobi celebrated an event to commemorate the International Day of Enforced Disappearances on 30 August 2016. The event involved a high-level panel discussion titled – Ensuring Accountability: What Kenya Must Change to End Enforced Disappearances. This was followed by a solidarity action (Candlelight vigil). This was also happening in other parts of the country. Useful quotes […]
Kenya: Set up judicial inquiry into hundreds of enforced disappearances and killings
Kenya: Set up a judicial inquiry into hundreds of enforced disappearances and killings The Kenyan government must set up a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate and bring to justice all those suspected of criminal responsibility for extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances, said 13 Kenyan and global human rights organizations today as they marked the […]
Asociación para Desarrollo Integral Maya Ajchmol (ADIMA) y Protección International
Manifestamos nuestra profunda preocupación por la criminalización hacia las Autoridades Ancestrales y líderes comunitarios que trabajan para promover, proteger los derechos y el territorio de los pueblos, a causa de la intromisión de los proyectos de industrias extractivas de los bienes o recursos naturales como lo son los proyectos mineros e hidroeléctricos en el departamento […]
KENYA: Joint Letter to Secretary Kerry on Human Rights (August 2016)
Dear Secretary Kerry, Your forthcoming visit to Kenya scheduled to take place on 22 August 2016, comes at a time when the country is faced with significant human rights and rule of law challenges. In that regard, we undersigned human rights non-governmental organizations wish to draw your attention to the continued violation of human rights […]
IACHR welcomes progress on the human rights of LGBTI Persons
The IACHR has issued a press release welcoming the laws and measures approved by the US and several states of Latin America while encouraging them to continue their efforts to ensure the human rights of LGBTI persons. In the past few months, countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, […]
Cambodia: Support and solidarity for the five detained HRDs
Together with 53 others organisations, Protection International is calling for support and solidarity for the 5 Cambodian human rights defenders who have been detained since 28 April 2016. Senior staff senior staff members from the NGO Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), Mr. Ny Sokha, Mr. Yi Soksan, Mr. Nay Vanda and Ms. […]
Call for applications: Finance and Administration Officer Thailand
Protection International (PI) is seeking to recruit a Finance and administration Officer in Thailand PI is an international non-profit organization researching strategies and security management tools that protect human rights defenders and sharing its expertise in this area with people at risk for their human rights work all around the world. PI sees human rights […]
Assassinat de Pascal Kabungulu : 11 ans plus tard, toujours aucune justice
Déclaration publique1er août 2016 Pascal Kabungulu, un célèbre défenseur des droits humains, a été violemment assassiné en 2005. A l’occasion du onzième anniversaire de sa mort, la société civile congolaise et les organisations internationales demandent que justice soit enfin faite. Pascal Kabungulu était un défenseur des droits humains courageux et dévoué, qui œuvrait pour les […]
The killing of Pascal Kabungulu: 11 years on and still no justice
Photo credit: TRIAL International/ CCIJ Public statement Prominent human rights defender Pascal Kabungulu was brutally murdered in 2005. On the eleventh anniversary of his death, Congolese civil society and international organizations demand that justice be finally delivered. Pascal Kabungulu was a courageous and dedicated human rights defender, who worked on behalf of victims of human […]
UPDATE: THAI VILLAGERS WELCOME THE EU TO DISCUSS THEIR ONGOING FIGHT FOR LAND RIGHTS
UPDATE: The Nakhon Phanom provincial court in Thailand has dismissed the case against 29 villagers in Tambon Aat Samat, Amphoe Mueang, Nakhon Phanom for land encroachment offenses based on insufficient evidence presented by the public prosecutor. In 2015, in Nakorn Phanom province, to comply with the government’s initiative of turning the area into Special Economic […]