This page will be updated every two weeks with news articles appearing the the media about the work of human rights defenders. If you have an article to share for publication here, please send to: webeditor@frontlinedefenders.org
14 July 2016 - Reuters - Global call to development banks: don't fund projects that violate human rights
HRD: Berta Caceres, Lesbia Urquia
14 July 2016 - Reuters - Bahrain wields travel curbs in crackdown on opponents: activists
HRD: Ahmed Radhi
12 July 2016 - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty - Jailed Iranian Human Rights Defender's Mother Calls On Rohani To Intervene
HRD: Narges Mohammadi
9 July 2016 - AllAfrica.com - Fare Thee Well - Mourners Bid Brutally Killed Human Rights Defender
HRD: Willie Kimani
9 July 2016 - Hong Kong Free Press - Reluctant human rights defenders: The wives of those detained in China’s lawyer crackdown
HRD: Xie Yanyi, Li Heping
30 June 2016 - Burma News International - No security for Rohingya ethnic human rights defenders in Thailand
1 June 2016 - US News - From a Young Activist, a Show of Anger at Egypt's Courts
HRD: Sanaa Seif
29 May 2016 - The New York Times - Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Dissidents
HRD: Ahmed Mansoor
18 May 2016 - The Guardian - Brazil's Guarani Indians killing themselves over loss of ancestral land HRD: Tonico Benites
10 May 2016 - The Ecologist - Mining, money and murder: the deadly struggle to protect South Africa's Wild Coast
HRD: Sikhosiphi Radebe
9 May 2016 - Telesur - 10 Latin American Indigenous Rights Warriors You Need to Know
HRDs: Miriam Miranda, Maxima Acuña de Chaupe, Marcos Terena, Milagro Sala, Feliciana Valencia, Silvia Carrera, Humberto Piaguaje, Aura Lolita Chavez Ixcaquic, Oscar Olivera, Nestora Salgado
4 May 2016 - RFE/RL - RFE/RL Azerbaijani Contributor Awarded UN Press Freedom Honor
HRD: Khadija Ismayilova
2 May 2016 - Al-Monitor - Cairo marks World Press Freedom Day with raid on journalists' syndicate
HRD: Amr Badr
19 April 2016 - The Guardian - Goldman Prize winner: 'I will never be defeated by the mining companies'
HRD: Maxima Acuña de Chaupe
17 April 2016 - The Guardian - 'Even though I know my life is at risk, I still try to save the forest’
HRD: Leng Ouch
17 April 2016 - The Guardian - Tanzanian land rights victory earns Masaai leader Goldman prize
HRD: Edward Loure
17 April 2016 - New York Times - Egypt's Hollowed-Out Society
HRD: Gamal Eid
