Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights Defenders’
August 13, 2013
On 12 August Human Rights Watch issued a report on Ecuador and urged it to revoke a presidential decree that grants far-reaching powers to the government to oversee and dissolve nongovernmental organizations.
On June 4, 2013, President Rafael Correa adopted a decree [a similar decree in December 2010 was shelved after criticism] that creates new procedures for Ecuadorean nongovernmental organizations to obtain legal status and requires international organizations to undergo a screening process to seek permission to work in Ecuador. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: administrative rules, Bahrain, decree, Ecuador, foreign funding, freedom of association, HRW, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights Watch, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, NGOs, Non-governmental organization, Rafael Correa, Russia, Uganda, Venezuela
August 13, 2013
13 NGOs have signed an open letter concerning the situation in Bahrain in the light of the upcoming mass demonstration on 14 August. As it is short and to the point here is the full text copied from the FIDH website: Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: AI, Bahrain, Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, Bahrain Human Rights Society, Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, Bahrain Watch, Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, Bahraini, Barack Obama, David Cameron, European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, FIDH, freedom of demonstration, Front Line (NGO), Gulf Centre for Human Rights, HRW, human rights, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights First, human rights organizations, IFEX, Manama, mass protests, Physicians for Human Rights
August 13, 2013
For those who think that the phenomenon of forced psychiatric treatment of human rights defenders has disappeared with the end of the cold war, here are two reminders from Front Line that this is unfortunately still continuing:
The first case is in the Ukraine and had at least a ‘happy’ ending: Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Almaty, forced psychiatric treatment, Front Line (NGO), human rights, Human Rights and Liberties, Human Rights Defenders, Kazakhstan, Mental disorder, Psychiatric hospital, Psychiatry, Raisa Radchenko, Supreme Court, Ukraine, women human rights defenders, Zinaida Mukhortova
August 12, 2013
Kerry Kennedy writes in an opinion in the WashingtonPost of 12 August about how her organisation was called by the superintendent of Bucyrus City Schools to address the issue of bullying in the school. The Speak Truth To Power [STTP], human rights education curriculum offered by the Robert F. Kennedy Center is taught in schools around the world — from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to Pisa, Italy, from Stockholm to Chicago. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: bullying, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Human Rights Defenders, human rights education, human rights organization, Juliana Dogbadzi, Kerry Kennedy, Phnom Penh, schools, Speak Truth to Power, United States, Washington Post
August 9, 2013
Mohammed El-Bejadi
On 6 August 2013, human rights defender Mr Mohammed Saleh El-Bejadi was released from detention in which he had been kept since his arrest during a peaceful protest in the area of Buraidah, on 21 March 2011. Mohammed El-Bejadi is Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: ACPRA, Arab spring, Front Line (NGO), human rights, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, illegal detention, kingdom of saudi arabia, Middle East, Mohammad Al-Qahtani, Mohammed Saleh El-Bejadi, Politics of Saudi Arabia, release, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association, Specialized Criminal Court
August 9, 2013
Front Line reports the continuous presence of armed security guards in the community of La Nueva Esperanza, in the department of Atlántida, threatening and intimidating the local population, resulted in the temporary kidnapping of two human rights defenders, Mr Daniel Langmeier and Ms Orlane Vidal. Both are working for the Proyecto de Acompañamiento Honduras – PROAH (Honduras Accompaniment Project), an organisation which aims to prevent or alleviate situations of risk against human rights defenders in Honduras. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: accompaniement, AI, armed security guards, environmental issues, Front Line (NGO), Honduras, Human right, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, Inter-American Human Rights Commission, La Nueva Esperanza, land rights, Lenir Pérez, Mining, Orlane Vidal, peaceful resistance, woman human rights defender
August 9, 2013
In a piece published in the Alaska Dispatch of 8 August 2013, Phil Lynch, the Director of the Geneva-based International Service for Human Rights, contemplates what the next session of the UN Human Rights Council could do to improve the fate of HRDs.
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Tags: Cameroon, foreign funding, Human right, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, Indonesia, international protection, International Service for Human Rights, ISHR, LGBT, Memorial, Navi Pillay, Non-governmental organization, Phil Lynch, Russia, United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council
August 5, 2013
Several newspapers and NGOs, including the Asian Human Rights Commission, have criticized the new government of Pakistan for deciding to do away with the Ministry of Human Rights and merge it with the Ministry of Justice. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: AHRC, Asian Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Defenders, Ministry of Human Rights, Ministry of Justice, Pakistan, policy, prime minister nawaz, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, UN Human Rights Council, United Nations Human Rights Council, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UPR
August 5, 2013
Since 13 July 2013, five ethnic Azerbaijani human rights defenders detained in Tabriz prison have taken part in an ongoing hunger strike in protest at their conviction following an unfair trial. Mahmud Fezli, Latif Haseni, Ayat Mehrali Baglou, Behboud Gholizadeh and Shahram Radmehr are members of the organisation Yeni Gamoh, Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Azerbaijani, Azerbaijani language, Front Line (NGO), human rights, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, illegal detention, Iran, judicial harassment, minority rights, right to education, Tabriz, Tehran, Unesco
August 2, 2013
Special Rapporteur on Belarus Miklós Haraszti. – Photo: OSCE/Susanna Lööf
2 August 2013 the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Republic of Belarus, Miklós Haraszti, said that the detention of Bialiatski is “a symbol of the repression against human rights defenders.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Belarus, belarusian authorities, Bialiatski, confiscation, FIDH, freedom of association, Human right, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, Miklos Haraszti, Minsk, Non-governmental organization, OSCE, Special Rapporteur, UN, UN Human Rights Council, UN Special Rapporteur
Mohammed El-Bejadi
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 