Front Line Defenders has learned with great sadness of the death of human rights defender Rafiq Hajat, who passed on 13 September 2021 of a heart attack. Despite the personal risks, Rafiq Hajat dedicated 20 years of his life to peacefully defending human rights in Malawi.

Por Pâmella Passos

Traducción Rosario Figari Layus

Hace unos años me encontré con el texto “Hablar en lenguas: una carta a las escritoras del Tercer Mundo”1 de Glória Anzaldua. Como promotora de la escritura de las mujeres, la autora, estudiosa de la teoría cultural chicana, feminista y lesbiana convoca a las mujeres del llamado “tercer mundo” a escribir y reconocer en la escritura una forma, a mi modo de ver, de creación, de supervivencia.

On 10 September 2020, Yury Korzun, a miner from Belarusian city of Salihorsk chained himself to a piece of equipment 300 meters below the surface. Belarusians commented it happened because “another person has handcuffed himself to the presidential chair”.

In mid-February 2020, as the coronavirus outbreak led to cities and counties across China imposing strict lockdown, a mother surnamed Wang and her two young children, with luggage in tow, walked for almost five hours in an attempt to return to their hometown in a neighbouring county after she was beaten by her abusive ex-husband.