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Dublin: Front Line Defenders publishes 2012 annual Report - Inspiring Hope and Provoking a Backlash:posted on: 2012/01/26

This report underlines the crucial role played by human rights defenders in standing up for the rights of others, challenging oppression and speaking out for those who have no voice said Front Line Defenders' Executive Director Mary Lawlor speaking in Dublin today.

Dublin: Front Line launches 2011 Annual Report which analyses the global situation for human rights defendersposted on: 2011/11/11

On 25 March 2011, Front Line launched its second Annual Report on Human Rights Defenders which highlights global trends and developments in the situation of human rights defenders in 2010 and analyses the situation in each region of the world.

The Report highlights the fact that despite some positive developments and the wave of uprising sweeping across the Middle East at year end, overall 2010 was not a good year for human rights defenders who continued to face harassment and repression in many countries.

Dublin: Front Line Defenders launches new security workbook for human rights defenders at riskposted on: 2011/11/18

Human rights defenders need new strategies that are inspired by a theory of security and human rights, of dignity, freedom and justice. This new Security Workbook, created with a view to protecting human rights defenders, is aimed at them.

Front Line report “Strategies for Survival” documents dangerous reality for human rights defenders in Indonesia, Zimbabwe and Colombiaposted on: 2011/12/12

A top Indonesian human rights lawyer is fatally poisoned with arsenic on an international flight. A Zimbabwean activist is abducted and held incommunicado before being tried on baseless charges. Leaked documents reveal plans to assassinate Colombian human rights defenders. And these shocking incidents occur in a day-to-day context of surveillance, threats, and other harassment.

Dublin Front Line launches new report Breakdown of Trust: the Corrib Gas Disputeposted on: 2010/09/15

In its report Breakdown of Trust: the Corrib Gas Dispute, written by Irish barrister Brian Barrington, Front Line called for a review of policies and practices by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC). The report also raises concerns about the police response to the assault on Willie Corduff on 22/23 April 2009 and the vetting of private security personnel.

Dublin: Front Line Launches 2010 Annual Report on Global Situation for Human RIghts Defenders During 5th Dublin Platformposted on: 2010/09/22

The report which was launched by Front Line to coincide with the 5th Dublin Platform highlights the fact that to be a human rights defender remains a high risk occupation in many countries.

Front Line Iraq: Testimonies of Human Rights Defendersposted on: 2009/02/10

The largely untold story of Iraq has been the struggle of Iraqis to make things better. It’s the story of those who sought to work non-violently for peace and justice and human rights. The story of human rights defenders who sought to document and publish the truth, to help and support the families of victims, to bring help to the most vulnerable.

Front Line Central Asia: Threats, Attacks, Arrests and Harassment of Human Rights Defendersposted on: 2007/07/17

In Central Asia 2006 was marked by a strong trend towards limiting the rights to freedom of expression and association and making life as difficult as possible for human rights defenders. Human rights defenders are particularly vulnerable to attack when they highlight the absence of democracy, the abuse of power, corruption or the use of torture.

Front Line Guatemala: Attacks Against Human Rights Defenders 2000-2005posted on: 2007/07/17

This report details the surge in attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala over the past six years. It illustrates how the phenomenon and its consequences have developed into a resurgence of the terror experienced during the internal armed conflict (1960-1996).

Front Line USA :Threats Attacks Arrests and Harassment of Human Rights Defendersposted on: 2007/06/25

This report examines the situation for human rights defenders in the USA in the aftermath of 9/11 and the way the “war on terror” was being used to repress the work of human rights defenders internationally.

Front Line Brazil: Murder Death Threats and other Intimidations of Human Rights Defenders 1997-2001posted on: 2007/06/25

This report analyzes fifty-six separate incidents of violence and harassment of human rights defenders over the past five years in Brazil.

Towards Full and Effective Implementation of the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders in Democratic Republic of Congoposted on: 2007/06/25

In November 2005, Front Line carried out a mission in the DRC in order to research the extent to which the EU guidelines for the protection of human rights defenders are being implemented in the country, especially with respect to Eastern DRC, one-and-a-half years after their adoption. See report for full details.

Front Line Palestine: Killings Harassment and Intimidation of Human Rights Defenders in the Occupied Palestinian Terrritoryposted on: 2007/06/25

Defending human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) is a complex and dangerous task. The historical, political and legal framework of operation is disputed, although certain key understandings and conclusions can be drawn. Human rights defenders face the challenging situation of operating to defend human rights violations resulting from the Israeli occupation as well as those committed by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).

Front Line Indonesia: Murders Death Threats and Other Forms of Intimidation of Human Rights Defenders, 1998-2002posted on: 2007/06/25

The primary focus of this report rests on the cases of abuse, arbitrary arrest, torture, disappearance, murder and other forms of intimidation perpetrated against human rights defenders in Indonesia.

Front Line Rwanda: Disappearances Arrests Threats Intimidation and Co-option of Human Rights Defenders 2001 - 2004posted on: 2007/06/25

Over the past three years, Rwanda’s increasingly authoritarian government has arrested political opponents, stifled independent journalists, targeted human rights defenders, failed to thoroughly investigate disappearances, and narrowed the space for independent civil society. It has justified those actions as necessary to prevent ‘ethnic divisionism’ and a possible resurgence of genocide. Two months after the tenth commemoration of the genocide in April 2004, a Parliamentary Commission made accusations of genocidal ideology – a highly charged allegation in a country still recovering from the 1994 genocide that killed at least 800,000 people – against several civil society NGOs involved in promoting human rights in the judicial and rural sectors. While the main targets were LIPRODHOR (Rwandan League for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights or Ligue rwandaise pour la promotion et la défense des droits de l’Homme) and FOR (Forum of Rural Organisations or Forum des organisations rurales), the Commission also went after the only remaining independent newspaper, churches, schools, and even international development NGOs such as CARE and Trócaire.