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November 28, 2022
From 30 November to 15 December 2022, the Swedish Embassy in The Hague and the Swedish Institute, show a series of portraits of Human Rights Defenders. A tribute to those fighting for human rights & women’s rights “In a number of countries, human rights defenders and journalists are subject to arbitrary detentions, kidnappings, disappearances, physical aggressions, judicial harassments, death threats and intimidations. Some have paid the ultimate price for their commitment. I hope that these extraordinary and courageous people will inspire others to create a better, safer and more gender-equal society.” Anette Brolenius, Photographer .
Location: ATRIUM, The Hague Open for all, free of charge. *
https://www.swedenabroad.se/en/embassies/netherlands-the-hague/current/calendar/exhibition-hr-defenders/
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December 10, 2019
At the occasion of international human rights day 2019, the Carter Center published “Human Rights Defenders: In Their Own Words“, a selection of participants at the 12th Human Rights Defenders Forum in Atlanta [see: https://humanrightsdefenders.blog/2019/10/22/carter-centre-wants-to-preserve-the-stories-of-human-rights-defenders/]:
“The right to defend human rights is a right already recognized. We have to be mindful and careful and state clearly that no one should be defamed, persecuted, prosecuted, or killed because they exercise their right to defend rights, regardless of their political position.”
CLAUDIA SAMAYOA
Unidad de Protección a Defensoras y Defensores de Derechos Humanos
Guatemala
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ALEJANDRA SERRANO PAVÓN
Environmental Law Alliance
Mexico
“We believe that if people understand the concept of human rights and are able to apply it to their lives, then there will be more peaceful coexistence. Then government can cut down on the bills for buying arms and ammunitions. Then development can take place because everybody’s living peacefully and they’re able to go about their normal businesses fully.”
HALIMAT JIBRIL
Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN)
Nigeria
“We have seen the rise of many youth-led movements around the world, and these young protesters are speaking out and standing up not just on the issue of environmental crisis, but also on land rights, on democracy. All of them are using the internet as a tool not just for communication but also for organizing and mobilizing these campaigns. One concrete way we can support youth-led movements is to make sure that these internet tools remain accessible, safe, and truly empowering.”
RAYMOND “MONG” PALATINO
Global Voices
The Philippines
“The Palestinian people, just like all people around the world, are seeking the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And when that is undermined in one part of the world, it is undermined everywhere. I feel like the Palestinian situation is just a microcosm of global injustice. If we can solve one, we can solve the other. But big problems require collective minds.”
WESAM AHMAD
Al-Haq
Palestine
“Every time that we’ve had significant change in our country, religion has been at the heart of it. It’s been part of what motivates people. It speaks to our values. To neglect religion in thinking about human rights would be to neglect a huge part of the resources that we have in taking on the injustices we face.”
COLLEEN WESSEL-MCCOY
Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice
United States
“Solidarity is not about ‘me’; it’s about ‘we.’ It’s about just being there – not being ahead of somebody or behind somebody, but standing with them.”
STACEY HOPKINS
Activist
United States
“The relationship we build between people is the greatest wealth we can have. It is beyond money. It goes beyond what you have in your bank account. When you have a good relationship with the people – your friends, your family, your colleagues – that is a good foundation to build a country.”
HALIDOU NGAPNA
Carter Center Human Rights House
Democratic Republic of Congo
“In 1996, we embedded human rights into our three-year program. Immediately, we started seeing change. It was like a revolution. Community members started coming out and promoting their own rights, started talking about their responsibilities. This was possible because we talked about all the aspects of human rights – economic rights, cultural rights, political rights, and civil rights. After people understood human rights, we started seeing changes in deeply rooted cultural practices, including female genital cutting and child marriage. They started having dialogues around gender-based violence against women and girls. Women started taking political positions, because they now understood they have the right to vote, and the right to be elected. Things started changing.”
GODFREY OCHIENG OKUMU
Tostan International
Senegal
“If you’re not indifferent, the world will be different. Challenging our own indifferences is extremely important.”
RAMESH SHARMA
Ekta Parishad
India
“In 2015, our lives began to change completely. We lost our jobs; we lost our homes; we lost our country; we lost our dignity. But we did not lose hope, and we will never lose hope.”
MUNA LUQMAN
Food4Humanity
Yemen
“The motto of our organization is taken from John 17:21, which says, ‘That all of them may be one.’ If all should be one, there should be no violence, there should be no quarrel, there should be no killing. For all of us to be one, there must be love. There must be peace. There must be unity. And there must be togetherness.”
VICTORIA BOLANLE IHESIULOR
Christian Association of Nigeria, Women’s Wing
Nigeria
https://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/p/human_rights/hrdf-in-their-own-words.html
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Tags: 10 december 2019, Claudia Samayoa, Democratic Republic Congo, Guatemala, Halidou Ngapna, Halimat Jibril, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights Defenders Forum (Carter), international human rights day, Muna Luqman, Nigeria, Palestine, photos, USA, Wesam Ahmad, Yemen
December 4, 2018
A series of beautiful portraits of LGBTI and women human rights defenders in Russia, such as the one below, on HRHF’s twitter account”
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Tags: Human Rights House Foundation, images, LGBTI, Olga Gnezdilova, photos, portraits, Russia, women human rights defenders
December 22, 2015
When looking for ways to engage young people in human rights work, this is an idea: Amnesty International UK has been running for many years a series of media awards. In 2010 it added human rights awards for YOUNG reporters, photographers, reporters, campaigners, fundraisers and poets. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: AI UK, awards, Education, Human Rights Defenders, human rights education, images, journalism, Observer, Paul Conroy, photos, reporting, youth
November 26, 2014
As part of the 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Based Violence (November 25 – December 10, 2014) AWID is honoring Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Who Are No Longer With Us.
The tribute was first launched at AWID’s 12th International Forum on Women’s Rights in Development, held in April 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey. The new version of the tribute takes the form of an online photo exhibition launched on 25 November, Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and ends on 10 December, International Human Rights Day with a special slide show featuring 16 WHRDs from around the world. The tribute features photographs and biographies of rights leaders from around the world. Each day of the campaign AWID will share the story of a WHRD(s) on its website as well as through Facebook and Twitter using hashtags #16days and #AWIDMembers and link back to the full online exhibit which will commemorate and celebrate the work and lives of WHRDs who have passed away since January 2011.
An example is Sunila Abeyesekera a lifelong women human rights defender from Sri Lanka, who played a lead role in the global women’s rights movement for over 40 years to be honored on 29 November which is International Women Human Rights Defenders’ Day. [https://thoolen.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/sri-lankan-hrd-sunila-abeysekera-dies-tribute-by-a-paper-bird/]
About one third of those honored in this tribute were killed or disappeared due to their activism. Women like Agnes Torres, from Mexico, Cheryl Ananayo, from the Philippines who was assassinated as she struggled against a mining company; Colombian women’s human rights defender Angelica Bello who died in suspicious circumstances; and Petite Jasmine, board member of Swedish sex worker’s rights organization Rose Alliance who was murdered by the father of her children, who had threatened and stalked her on numerous occasions.
WHRD Tribute / Women Human Rights Defenders / Our Initiatives / Homepage – AWID.
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Tags: Agnes Torres, Angélica Bello, AWID, biographies, campaign, Cheryl Ananayo, Gender Based Violence, human rights of women, in memoriam, international human rights day, photos, pictures, slide show, Sunila Abeyesekera, Violence against women, WHRD, women human rights defenders, Women Human Rights Defenders Day
February 11, 2014
Just now I received – via HURIDOCS – from the Odhikar Team in Bangladesh this update: “Today, 11 February 2014, at around 12:30 in the afternoon, the man who drives Saira Rahman Khan’s car, [Adilur Rahman Khan is Secretary of the human rights NGO Odhikar], received a phone call from 01822924228. The man who called him said he was Sub-Inspector Shahid from the intelligence agency. He told the driver that he must give him regular updates on Adilur Rahman Khan’s whereabouts. The driver said that he did not work for Adilur Rahman Khan and did not know where the latter went everyday and he could not give that kind of information. The man hung up. After that at 12:57 the same man, from a different phone number (01678046854) called the driver again and threatened him that if he did not give the information he wanted, he would face grave physical harm. The driver went to Odhikar and told the fact finders that he feared for his safety.”
With this message, the Odhikar Team attached the photograph (below) of members of the intelligence agencies in the lane outside the Odhikar office. Notice that the motorcycle has no license plate, which is apparently rather typical for the intelligence agency. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Adilur Rahman Khan, Bangladesh, death threats, harassment, HURIDOCS, intelligence agency, NGO, Odhikar, Odhikar Team, photos, police intimidation, Saira Rahman Khan
January 10, 2014
The reliability of images captured and transmitted by HRDs is crucial to keep the value of their hard-won evidence high . The InformaCam application proposed by Witness uses the built-in sensors in modern smartphones as well as wi-fi, bluetooth, and cell-tower information to create a snapshot of the environment in which an image or video was captured. This validates the date, time and location of capture. Digital signatures and encryption ensure that the images haven’t been tampered with and can only be opened by the intended recipient.
I have always tried to keep you up to date on technological developments that can benefit human rights defenders. On 5 September 2013 I listed several new ideas (Natalia bracelet; Panic Button; Silent Circle; Security in a Box) and added the question who among the hard-pressed human rights defenders on the ground have the time and energy to sort through all this and pick what is most meaningful for them?.
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Tags: APP, applications, digital security, Human Rights Defenders, images, InformaCam, information technology, mobile phones, photos, video, Witness, Witness (human rights group)
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 