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2016 Front Line Defenders Award Finalist - Ana Mirian Romero, Honduras

#Honduras
2016 Award Finalists
Women HRDs

Ana Mirian Romero is a land rights and indigenous rights defender in Honduras. She is a member of Movimiento Indígena Lenca de La Paz Honduras – MILPAH (Lenca Indigenous Movement of La Paz, Honduras) and the Consejo Indígena San Isidro Labrador (San Isidro Labrador Indigenous Council). She has been active in opposing the installation of the Los Encinos hydro-electric dam on indigenous land near the Chinacla river. In early 2016 her home was burned down.

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#Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights
#Land Rights
HRDs: 
Ana Mirian Romero
Blog Post
Andrew Anderson's Blog
8 September 2016

Meeting Putin’s Challenge: Practical Recommendations for Supporting Human Rights Defenders

By Andrew Anderson - Former Executive Director

In light of unprecedented attacks on human rights defenders, Andrew Anderson of Front Line Defenders argues for increased direct support to human rights defenders working at the local and national levels, flexibility in funding, and a greater focus on core, multi-year support.

Originally posted in the International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG) Blog

Rights 
#Civil & Political Rights
Violations 
#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment #Judicial Harassment
Locations 
#Global
Blog Post
10 October 2016

In solidarity with HRDs from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Today is a national holiday in the United States. Schools, banks, and government buildings are all closed to commemorate the arrival of Christopher Columbus to a land he thought was India. In fact, 1492 marked the year Columbus "discovered" a land already home to almost 20 million indigenous peoples.

Since that day, indigenous communities of the continent have suffered centuries of persecution, massacre, disease, and systemic violations of their rights to land.

Rights 
#Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights #Land Rights
Locations 
#United States of America
Blog Post
30 August 2016

"I want my husband back, and I want him alive"

By Sebastiana Pérez Hernández

Sebastiana has a sad look on her eyes.

For more than five months, she has been demanding the Mexican authorities find her husband Fidencio Gómez Sántiz. She wants him back, and alive. So far, her demands have been met with silence.

Sebastiana Pérez Hernández is a 45-year-old woman and is the mother of two children. She speaks the indigenous language tzeltal and lives in the village of Las Perlas, in the municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas. She is a member of the grassroots organisation Frente Nacional de Lucha por el Socialismo (FNLS).

Rights 
#Civil & Political Rights
Violations 
#Enforced Disappearance
Locations 
#Mexico
Blog Post
Andrew Anderson's Blog
17 December 2016

Human rights defenders in the face of authoritarianism: voices from Nicaragua

By Andrew Anderson - Former Executive Director

There is growing concern over how democracy and the rule of law have deteriorated in Nicaragua, bearing important consequences for human rights defenders and society at large. As the presidential family has solidified its grip on Parliament, the Army, the Police and the media, civil society space has steadily narrowed.

Rights 
#Environmental Rights #Gender/Women's Rights #Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights #Land Rights
Locations 
#Nicaragua
Publication
7 January 2019

Global Analysis 2018

Global Analysis 2018 details the physical assaults, defamation campaigns, digital security threats, judicial harassment, and gendered attacks faced by HRDs and women human rights defenders (WHRDs). December 2018 marked the 20th Anniversary of the HRD Declaration and the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but HRDs around the world continue to face lethal threats from state, non-state, and corporate actors in their peaceful struggles for rights.

Rights 
#Civil & Political Rights #Economic, Social & Cultural Rights #Human Rights
Violations 
#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment #Defamation #Judicial Harassment #Killing #Other Harassment #Sexual Violence / Sexual Harassment #Smear Campaign
Location 
#Global
Campaign
26 October 2021

Make It Your Business

Corporate Accountability Legislation in Ireland

The ICBHR is campaigning for new corporate accountability legislation to prevent abuses by making Irish-based companies accountable for a range of corporate human rights violations including forced labour, land grabs, attacks on human rights defenders, violence against women and denial of people's fundamental rights at work. The law would also allow victims to take companies to court in Ireland for damages

Rights 
#Environmental Rights#Extractive Industries / Megaprojects#Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights#Land Rights
Location 
#Global#Ireland
Publication
5 July 2017

Defending the environment, defending life

On World Environment Day, we honour the struggle of Guatemalan HRDs who are risking their life to defend environmental rights

Two weeks ago, indigenous and land rights defender Carlos Maaz Coc attended a peaceful demonstration in El Estor, Guatemala. Together with other fishermen and farmers, he was protesting against the contamination caused by nickel mining projects in his region.

Rights 
#Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights
Violations 
#Judicial Harassment #Killing #Physical Attack
Location 
#Guatemala
Blog Post
11 October 2016

Can the EU step up its public diplomacy on HRDs?

By Emma Achilli

While the current nature of EU foreign policy means it has to be built on a delicate compromise between 28 member states, most observers have felt that it has been excessively – perhaps needlessly? - timid in communicating on issues related to human rights. Human rights, after all, are both a founding value of the EU, so important that they appear in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union, and one of the most important objectives of its foreign policy (again, enshrined in the Treaty as the second objective after the eradication of poverty).

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