On 14 September 2024, human rights and environmental defender Juan López was shot dead by a group of unidentified armed individuals while in his car in Tocoa, department of Colón, Honduras.
On 17 May 2024, indigenous Nahua leader and human rights defender Antonio Regis Nicolás was shot dead after being stopped by an armed group, part of the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, on his way home in the town of Aquila, Michoacán.
On 26 October 2023, women human rights defender Bahjaa Abdelaa Abdelaa was shot and killed at a funeral in Nyala, South Darfur.
On 31 August 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on the case Estemirova v. Russia concerning the murder of prominent woman human rights defender Natalia Estemirova on 15 July 2009. The Court ruled that Russia failed to investigate the murder of Natalia Estemirova properly, yet did not find that the Russian authorities are directly responsible for her kidnapping and killing.
On 21 April 2024, campesino social leader and human rights defender Narciso Beleño was shot dead while entering his house in the town of Santa Rosa, in the region of Bolívar, Colombia.
On 23 February 2024, the social leader and human rights defender Ludivia Galindez was shot dead by a group of unidentified armed men while she was in her house in the town of Florencia, Caquetá.
On 19 July 2023, human rights defender Obedi Karafuru was shot and killed in his house by unidentified men in Bishusha, Rutshuru territory in North Kivu, a region controlled by the M23 rebels.
The Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca (ACIN) has reported a new series of armed attacks and threats in Nasa indigenous territory in the department of Cauca. During the last weeks of January 2022, armed attacks by alleged outlawed groups have caused the death of three human rights defenders and kiwe thegnas (indigenous guards), Breiner David Cucuñame López, Guillermo Chicame Ipia and José Albeiro Camayo Güetio, in the Nasa Las Delicias indigenous reservation in the municipality of Buenos Aires.
On 17 and 18 June 2023, three human rights defenders Abd Elrazeg Adam Mohammed, Tareg Hassan Yagoub Elmalik and El Sadeg Mohammed Ahmed Haroun were killed in El Geneina, West Darfur. On 18 June 2023, the human rights defender, lawyer and one of the founding members of the Darfur Bar Association Tareg Hassan Yagoub Elmalik was killed in his house in El Geneina. The human rights defender was also a memeber of the steering committee for the Sudanese Bar Association.
On 17 and 18 June 2023, three human rights defenders Abd Elrazeg Adam Mohammed, Tareg Hassan Yagoub Elmalik and El Sadeg Mohammed Ahmed Haroun were killed in El Geneina, West Darfur. On 17 June 2023, Abd Elrazeg Adam Mohammed, a 28-year-old human rights defender and memeber of the Darfur Network of Monitors, was killed along with his parents and his 4 brothers in El Geneina.
On 17 and 18 June 2023, three human rights defenders Abd Elrazeg Adam Mohammed, Tareg Hassan Yagoub Elmalik and El Sadeg Mohammed Ahmed Haroun were killed in El Geneina, West Darfur. On 18 June 2023, the human rights defender and lawyer El Sadeg Mohammed Ahmed Haroun was killed in El Geneina.
Over the past two and a half weeks, three human rights defenders Mohammed Ahmed Kudia, Khamis Arabab and Khidir Sulieman Abdelmageed were killed in El Geneina, West Darfur.
On 28 May 2023, the human rights defender and leader of the Garifuna community in Triunfo de la Cruz, Honduras, Martín Morales Martínez, was found dead after having been reported as missing by his family on 27 May 2023.
On 2 May 2023, the woman human rights defender Teresa Magueyal was shot dead by a group of unidentified armed men while riding her bike in the area of San Miguel Octopan, in the municipality of Celaya, Guanajuato.
On 20 June 2022, human rights defenders and priests Joaquín César Mora Salazar and Javier Campos Morales were shot dead by gunmen, along with another person inside a church in the indigenous community of Cerocahui, Chihuahua state.
On 20 June 2022, human rights defenders and priests Joaquín César Mora Salazar and Javier Campos Morales were shot dead by gunmen, along with another person inside a church in the indigenous community of Cerocahui, Chihuahua state.
On 5 and 6 of March 2022 three human rights defenders, Youseif Yagoub Ahmed, Mohamed Ibrahim Yahya and Mohamed Eldai Musa were killed in Jabal Moon, West Darfur by armed militia while they were doing an assessment on the human rights and humanitarian situation in West Darfur. The three human rights defenders were members of Darfur Human Rights Monitors network, a network of human rights monitoring groups in the five states of Darfur.
On 5 and 6 of March 2022 three human rights defenders, Youseif Yagoub Ahmed, Mohamed Ibrahim Yahya and Mohamed Eldai Musa were killed in Jabal Moon, West Darfur by armed militia while they were doing an assessment on the human rights and humanitarian situation in West Darfur. The three human rights defenders were members of Darfur Human Rights Monitors network, a network of human rights monitoring groups in the five states of Darfur.
On 5 and 6 of March 2022 three human rights defenders, Youseif Yagoub Ahmed, Mohamed Ibrahim Yahya and Mohamed Eldai Musa were killed in Jabal Moon, West Darfur by armed militia while they were doing an assessment on the human rights and humanitarian situation in West Darfur. The three human rights defenders were members of Darfur Human Rights Monitors network, a network of human rights monitoring groups in the five states of Darfur.
On 29 September 2021, Rohingya human rights defender Mohib Ullah was shot and killed by unidentified individuals in Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Mohib Ullah arrived at his office in the Kutupalong camp around 8:30 PM when three armed individuals attacked him. The human rights defender sustained at least three gunshot injuries to his chest and was pronounced dead by the doctors after being taken to Kutupalong MSF Hospital.
On 20 April 2021, Nasa indigenous woman human rights defender Sandra Liliana Peña Chocué was shot dead by four unidentified armed men. The men violently abducted the woman human rights defender from her home in the indigenous reserve of “La Laguna-Siberia” in Caldono, Cauca, before killing her.
On 17 January 2021, human rights defender Faisal Yousef Mohamed was killed in his house in El Genena city, West Darfur by unknown individuals from armed militant groups. Two of the human rights defenders brothers were murdered in the same incident.
On 4 February 2021, the Lebanese police found human rights defender Lokman Slim shot dead inside his car in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon. A medical examination revealed that the human rights defender had been shot four times in the head and once in the back.
On 7 March 2021, during coordinated operations led by the police and military in the Batangas, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal provinces surrounding Metro Manila, five human rights defenders were among those killed and four human rights defenders were arrested. Human rights defenders Emanuel Asucion, Melvin Dasigao, Mark Lee Coros Bacasno, Chai Lemita-Evangelista and Ariel Evangelista were among those killed, whilst human rights defenders Nimfa Lanzanas, Esteban Mendoza, Eugene Eugenio and Elizabeth Camoral were arrested during the raids.
On 1 May 2020, human rights defender and leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) Arif Wazir, was shot by unidentified gunmen. The attack took place near his home in Wanna, South Waziristan in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The human rights defender was rushed to hospital, but succumbed to his injuries the following day on 2 May 2020. Prior to the shooting, on 17 April 2020, Arif Wazir was arrested by police in Wanna on account of a speech he made during a visit to Afghanistan, which was considered ‘anti-national’.
