On the evening of 29 October 2012, unknown gunmen shot dead journalist Warsame Shire Awale, aged 60 years, in Mogadishu, bringing to 18 the total number of journalists killed in Somalia since the beginning of this year.
On 22 October 2010, at approximately 11pm, the Head of the House Committee of Osh district, Mr Tolon Amataliev, reportedly attacked human rights defender Mr Umaraly Mamazhanov (ethnic Uzbek) at a public reception of the Advocacy Centre for Human Rights.
Human rights defender Mrs K. Saraswathy has been subjected to attacks, death threats, attempted murder and a campaign of public defamation as a result of her human rights activities in Tamil Nadu State, India.
Front Line is concerned by reports that representatives of a child labour rescue mission were attacked by members of a cement company located in Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh, as they tried to conduct a raid, together with local police, on the company who had been found to be employing over 100 children under the age of 14 years.
Front Line is concerned by reports of attacks against several human rights defenders in the communities of Agalteca and Orica in the department of Francisco Morazón, Honduras. Raymundo Rodríguez, Abel Hernández, Jairo Domingo and Franklin Martínez are members of the Comité Ambientalista de Orica (Environmental Committee of Orica) and Mario Adolfo López is a member of the Committee in the village of Agalteca. Both Committees work in defence of the natural resources of the area.
Front Line is deeply concerned following reports that charges have been brought against Martín Amaru Barrios Hernández, and that Reyna Ramírez has been attacked and threatened. The two human rights defenders are members of the Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Laborales del Valle de Tehuacán (CDHLVT – the Commission of Human and Labour Rights in Tehuacán Valley), an organisation which documents and reports labour and environmental human rights violations in Tehuacán Valley, Puebla.
Front Line is deeply concerned following the attack against, and arrest of, human rights defender Arumugam Katuraja Kanagaraj. Arumugam Katuraja Kanagaraj is the District Human Rights Monitor in the Salem district, Tamil Nadu, of the National Project on Preventing Torture in India which is coordinated by People's Watch and sponsored by the European Union. Arumugam Katuraja Kanagaraj has also campaigned for the protection of the human rights of the Dalit minority community in the Salem district.
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.
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.
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