Brexit Poisons Human Rights
Putin, Le Pen and Trump; the list of those cheering the news of Brexit is a fairly clear indication of the negative impact on human rights and international cooperation. There is no doubt that Putin and other authoritarian leaders are delighted by anything that weakens the European Union and questions international cooperation around universal values and the rule of law.
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Front Line Defenders in Action
Digital Security
Cyber Crimes Bill in Pakistan
Pakistani HRD Nighat Dad explains the possible implications of the proposed Cyber Crimes Bill for human rights defenders and freedom of expression in Pakistan.
In the Field
South Sudan/Turkey
Front Line Defenders Africa Protection Coordinator visits South Sudan as the country prepares recovers from civil war, while Protection Coordinator for Eastern Europe & Central Asia visits Turkey which is in the midst of a civil conflict and targeted by terrorist bombings.
HRD Spotlight
Colombia & Kenya
Carlos Guevara is a Colombian human rights defender with more than a decade of experience fighting for justice in one of South America’s most dangerous countries for HRDs.
Ruth Mumbi is a community mobiliser and National Coordinator of Bunge la Wamama, a movement that campaigs for social justice and accountability in Kenya.
Grant in Focus
Leng Ouch, Cambodia
Leng Ouch is the Chairman of the Cambodia Human Rights Task Forces (CHRTF). He is dedicated environmentalist working to protect Cambodia's forests by documenting and reporting on illegal logging in Cambodia and exposed the corruption robbing rural communities of their land, causing the government to cancel large land concessions.
Events
Front Line Defenders Annual Award & Annual Lecture
Front Line Defenders presented Ana Mirian Romero from Honduras with its annual awrd for human rights defenders at risk at a ceremony in Dublin in June, and in April hosted Czech philosopher and political dissident, Professor Jan Sokol for its Annual Lecture, co-hosted with Trinity College and University College Dublin.
Long-Term Case
Narges Mohammadi
Narges Mohammadi is Deputy Director of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC). She was elected as President of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Peace in Iran, a broad coalition against war and for the promotion of human rights. She was sentenced to 16 years for launching a campaign to abolish the death penalty in Iran.
Read Articles about Human Rights Defenders in Reuters, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Hong Kong Free Press and other international, national and online publications.
Human Rights Defenders are crucial agents of social change. All too often they are the only people willing to take a stand for the rights of their communities.
As restrictive governments throughout the world seek to silence HRDs through persecution, intimidation, public humiliation, and extra-judicial killing, many are at greater risk than ever before.
Help us protect them by making a donation to Front Line Defenders today.
