Appel à l’action – Inscrire l’urgence en République Démocratique du Congo à l’ordre du jour du conseil desaffaires étrangères de l’UE du 20 novembre

Bruxelles, 6 novembre 2025 A l’attention de : Ministères des affaires étrangères des Etats membres de l’UE  Les organisations soussignées, membres du réseau EurAc, vous écrivent pour vous alerter sur la détérioration alarmante de la situation sécuritaire, humanitaire et des droits humains dans l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) et pour exiger l’inscription […]

Missing Voices 2022 Report: Accountability Now

Missing Voices is a coalition of organizations that together -including with the help of Protection International in Africa- have been documenting cases of police killings and enforced disappearances in a bid to understand the underlying causes of killings. The final aim is to end atrocities and claim justice for the families of the victims. In […]

Laos: After 10 years, civil society worldwide is still asking: “Where is Sombath?”

Sombath Somphone during a press conference in Manila, Philippines on August 2005. Photo: EPA/ROLEX DELA PENA 13 December 2022 Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals, renew calls on the Lao government to determine his fate and whereabouts […]

Public Statement – International Civil Society Organisations in Alert for Assassinated Social Leaders and the Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Colombia

As International Organisation we express our profound concern regarding the severe deterioration of the armed conflict in Colombia, which has already in 2020, taken the lives of 23 people, including four women and two ex-combatants in the process of reincorporation. This serious humanitarian situation is putting the sustainability of the Colombian peace process in jeopardy. […]

EU-LAT: Protection International contributes to a set of recommendations to the EU and its Member States for the protection of women and men human rights defenders in Latin America

As a member of the EU-LAT, a pluralistic network of European movements and organizations promoting solidarity between the people of Latin America and Europe, Protection International contributed to the definition of a set of recommendations to the EU and its Member States for the protection of women and men human rights defenders in Latin America. […]

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 […]