Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards

Front Line Defenders has launched a new campaign during the Euro 2012 football tournament to focus attention on the treatment of human rights defenders in some UEFA countries, where they face imprisonment, attack, harassment, detention and prosecution because of their human rights work.

Visit www.sportshrd.org to view the campaign and to take action to support these brave human rights defenders by sending solidarity postcards, After the Euro 2012 tournament, the site will switch over to focus on the 2012 Olympics and each day of the Olympic fortnight there will be a focus on a defender from an Olympic nation.

This entry was posted on June 21, 2012 at 17:23 and is filed under Front Line, human rights, Human Rights Defenders.

Tags: Euro 2012, football, Frontline, Human Rights and Liberties, Human rights defender, Non-governmental organization, UEFA