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May 23, 2013
Yesterday, 22 May, Amnesty International published its annual Report 2013 which documents the state of human rights during 2012. In five regional overviews and a country-by-country survey of 155 individual countries and territories, the report shows how the demand for human rights continued to resound in every corner of the globe… Resistance to injustice and repression took many forms, often inspiring acts of courage and determination from the communities and individuals facing seemingly insuperable obstacles. In the face of indifference, threats and attacks, human rights defenders pursued legal challenges at the national and international level to long-standing impunity and endemic discrimination.
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May 22, 2013
“Angola: From Theory to Practice – Its Time to Guarantee the Capacity of Human Rights Defenders to Act” (original: ANGOLA: Da Teoria à Prática – É hora de garantir a capacidade de atuação dos defensores dos direitos humanos) is the title of the report (preliminary findings) published today by The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture OMCT.
The Observatory carried out a fact-finding mission in Angola, from April 21 to May 1, 2013, to analyse the context in which human rights defenders are operating in the country. The mission delegation met with, amongst others, members of human rights NGOs, journalists, lawyers, artists, along with representatives of national authorities, political parties and foreign diplomatic missions. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Angola, fact finding, Human right, human rights, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, International Federation for Human Rights, journalists, legal restrictions, NGO, Non-governmental organization, Observatory, special report, Thomas Masuku, World Organisation Against Torture
May 22, 2013
I reported earlier in this blog on the Panic Button idea of Amnesty International. Now I have learned that it has been chosen as a finalist in Google’s Global Impact Challenge for work on a mobile alert system that enables human rights activists to trigger rapid response from their network in an emergency. Four out of ten projects will win £500,000. Public voting is open until 31 May! You can watch the video and vote here: g.co/impactchallenge/amnesty
If AI wins this Challenge, the work could be scaled up substantially. Amnesty and partners would launch the mobile alert system and directly train and support activist networks globally to set-up and use the system safely as part of their security protocols.
via Danna Ingleton, Research and Policy Adviser, Individuals at Risk.
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May 21, 2013
On 16 May 2013, human rights defender and maternal health activist Ms Madhuri Ramakrishnasway was arrested outside the court in Barwani in Madhya Pradesh, in a case brought against her after a protest. Madhuri Ramakrishnasway is a leader of Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan (JADS), a tribal and Dalit Rights Collective which has been working for fourteen years in Madhya Pradesh. Advocacy organisations often come together under the banner of JADS to hold peaceful protests in order to raise awareness of the extremely poor health care for women in pregnancy and labour. Sit-in protests are now taking place outside police stations in the district in solidarity with the human rights defender. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Adivasi, arrest, Bania (caste), Barwani, Dalit, freedom of demonstration, Front Line Defenders, human rights, Human rights defender, India, Madhuri Ramakrishnasway, Madhya Pradesh, poor health care, pregnancy and labour, right to health
May 21, 2013
(Magamed Abubakarov)
Magamed Abubakarov, a Russian human rights lawyer specialized in terrorist cases in the North-Caucasus, will receive the Lawyers for Lawyers Award 2013. Magamed Abubakarov will accept the award on 31 May at the end of a seminar called ‘Lawyers controlled, independence at stake?’ in Amsterdam. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Amsterdam, awards, Chechnya, Egbert Myjer, Els Swaab, Gustaf Kawer, Hague’s Shelter City Program, Heikelien Verrijn Stuart, human rights, human rights awards, Human Rights Defenders, Independence of Lawyers, Indonesia, Kabardino-Balkaria, L4L, lawyers, Lawyers for Lawyers, Magamed Abubakarov, Nalchik, North Caucasus, Olga Hamadi, Pakistan, Russia, Shahzad Akbar, Theo van Boven
May 20, 2013
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Tags: Ahmad Gharbeia, Chris Horn, communication, digital security, Dublin, Frontline Defenders, Human right, Human rights defender, IBM, information technology, internet, Ireland, Karlin Lillington, NGO, technical support, Wojtek Bogusz
May 20, 2013
Sagaing Region in Burma (credit: Wikipedia)
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) condemns in the strongest terms the announcement of the commander of the Sagaing Region Police Force, Myanmar, that the police will arrest and charge eight human rights defenders whom it blames for inciting protests against the army-backed copper mine project in Monywa. The Commission also condemns the latest round of needless police violence against demonstrators there. According to an undated announcement just issued by the regional commander of the Myanmar Police Force, a copy of which the AHRC has obtained, the police will lodge charges against eight persons for allegedly provoking demonstrations and other supposedly illegal actions. The persons named include six members of the Yangon Peoples Support Network. The other two persons are Han Win Aung of the Political Prisoners Families Beneficial Network and Thaung Taik Oo of the Yangon Institute of Technology Students Union (18 charges!). The announcement goes on to warn that failure to provide information leading to the apprehension of these persons or harbouring of them constitute criminal offenses. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: activists, AHRC, asian human rights, Asian Human Rights Commission, Burma, copper mine, criminalization, Han Win Aung, Human Rights Defenders, impunity, Myanmar, Myanmar Police Force, police brutality, police violence, protection, Sagaing Region, Yangon
May 20, 2013
After an absence for a few days for a fascinating meeting of and on HRDs in York university, UK, on which I will report more on another occasion, I return to my regular blog with a case that involves two kinds of hearing: Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: acoustic devices, Bangkok, freedom of demonstration, Front Line, Frontline Defenders, Human right, Human Rights and Liberties, Human Rights Defenders, labour activists, labour rights, Long Range Acoustic Device, LRAD, peaceful assembly, peaceful demonstration, peaceful protest, Thailand, trade unionists, trial observation, women human rights defenders
May 3, 2013
Human rights lawyer Mario Joseph, MEA Nominee 2013, will give the commencement address at the IU McKinney School of Law on Saturday 11 May in Indianapolis.
Mario Joseph, Haiti – Final Nominee MEA 2013
The announcement by the University describes him as “A finalist for one of the world’s most prestigious human rights awards“, who has been called “Haiti’s most prominent human rights lawyer” by The New York Times.
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Tags: Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, Final Nominees for the Martin Ennals Award 2013, Haiti, Human right, Human Rights Defenders, Indiana University, Indianapolis, law school, lawyer, Mario Joseph, McKinney School of Law, MEA, New York Times
May 3, 2013
Bahrain’s crackdown on human rights defenders continued today with the arrest of another prominent figure,
Naji Fateel. The arrest is the latest in a string of recent events calling into question the Kingdom’s claims of reform and progress. On 2 May 2013 at dawn, police arrested human rights defender Naji Fateel at his home in the village in north-west Bahrain. He is being held without formal charges at a location which is still unknown. Naji Fateel is a board member of the
Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights and a blogger who has been active in reporting human rights violations in Bahrain. The human rights defender gives daily speeches during marches in villages in which he discusses the importance of documenting violations and calls for people to form monitoring committees.
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Tags: Abdulhadi Al Khawaja, Bahrain, blogger, Brian Dooley, Front Line Defenders, HRF, Human right, human rights, Human rights defender, Human Rights First, human rights violations, illegal detention, Middle East, Nabeel Rajab, Naji Fateel, unlawful arrest, Zainab Al-Khawaja
