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COPINH visits Europe #COPINHTourMay2018

This Monday 14/05/2018 marks the start of the European tour that will take members of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) to some of the main European capitals, to denounce the lack of recognition of indigenous communities and protection of human rights defenders in Honduras. Corruption between the Honduran judiciary […]

Meeting with Berta Zúñiga Cáceres and COPINH in Brussels

05 May 2018 Protection International, Broederlijk Delen, CNCD-11.11.11, CIDSE, and the EU-LAT network invite you to a meeting with Bertha Zúniga Cáceres from COPINH and human rights defenders (Brussels, 14 May 2018, 18:30) (FR – NL) More than two years after the murder of Berta Cáceres, human rights defender, environmental activist, and winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental […]

Drop #LexNGO2018 – We stand in solidarity with civil society in Hungary!

Over 250 organizations and platforms from all over the world have signed a letter expressing their grave concern over the shrinking space for civil society in Hungary: On 13 February 2018, the Hungarian government tabled to Parliament a proposed legislative pack of three laws, commonly referred to as “Stop Soros”. The newly proposed legislation would […]

Human Rights Defenders Under Attack!

[Article first published by IHD Human Rights Association] Last update: 6 July 2017 On 5 July 2017, police raided an Istanbul Büyükada hotel where a group of human rights defenders had gathered to conduct a training session. As a result, 9 members of some of the leading human rights organizations in Turkey were detained, along with […]

Joint Statement: Human Rights Defenders Are Not Criminals

Brussels, November 29, 2016 – “Human rights defenders worldwide are regularly subjected to harassment and trumped-up criminal charges aiming at paralyzing, intimidating and delegitimizing their human rights activities. They face difficulties carrying out their work in increasingly restrictive legislative and administrative environments denying the right to freedoms of association, expression, and peaceful assembly. Licences of human […]

FOR THOSE WHO DIED TRYING’ PHOTO EXHIBITION OPENS IN GENEVA

Protection International opened the photo exhibition, ‘For those who died trying’ on the Place des Nations in Geneva on Monday, 9 May 2016. The exhibition ran from 9-11 May and presented the photographs of 37 murdered or abducted human rights defenders in Thailand. ‘For those who died trying’ will tour Thailand and various countries in Europe […]