Posts Tagged ‘urgent’

Documentary on Human Rights Defenders on Irish RTÉ One on 8 January

January 7, 2013

Last minute announcement: ‘Lives on the Line’, narrated by Martin Sheen, is to be aired tomorrow on Tuesday, 8th of January on Irish channel RTE1. Written and directed by Nuala Cunningham and narrated by Martin Sheen, this documentary, ‘Lives on the Line’, follows Mary Lawlor, founder of Front Line Defenders, an Irish-based international organisation dedicated to offering practical support to human rights defenders at risk throughout the world, as she goes to Guatemala to visit a number of human rights defenders who are risking their lives every day for their work. One such individual, Dr Yuri Melini, survived an assassination attempt on his life in 2008 but continues to fight for the protection of the environment and the rights of indigenous Mayan communities in Guatemala.

via Documentary On Human Rights Defenders To Air On RTÉ One | The Irish Film & Television Network.

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Three international Human Rights Groups Urge Gambia to Stop Crackdown on HRDs

January 2, 2013

The Gambian Government must stop immediately intimidation and harassment of HRDs, journalists, lawyers and government critics generally says a joint statement by ARTICLE 19, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and Amnesty International. Since the beginning of December, at least nine cases of arbitrary arrest and illegal detention have been documented.

via Human Rights Groups Urge Gambia Govt to Stop Crackdown on Critics.

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Study on Women Human Rights Defenders and Urgent Response methods

December 22, 2012

The wicked never sleep but we are still going to have a short break around Christmas and will not bother you unless it is extremely urgent and pertinent. For those who want some more serious reading over the holidays I refer to the

interesting study on the state of affairs with regard to the protection of women human rights defenders made public by :

Hem

on  http://urgent-responses.awid.org/index.php/Home

A concrete overview of its work is on behalf of women human rights defenders is included in: study on women HRDs and urgent responses

With this I wish you a pleasant holiday

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