I returned last week from a visit to Palestine and Israel. Over six days my colleague and I met with brilliant, tenacious, creative and brave human rights defenders who work non-violently on behalf of others in the brutally occupied West Bank or in an increasingly hostile Israel. We were not allowed access to meet with beleaguered human rights defenders in Gaza.

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Abdulhadi is two years old and is currently being held with his mother, Zainab Al-Khawaja, in Bahrain's Isa Town Women's Detention Centre. Zainab is one of the best known human rights defenders in Bahrain. She faces three years and one month in prison on several charges, including "destroying public property", for exercising her right to free expression by tearing up pictures of King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa.

Hacia fines de marzo visité a Máxima Acuña de Chaupe defensora del ambiente y del derecho a la tierra, en su hogar en la región de Cajamarca, Perú. La próxima novela gráfica que produciremos trata de defensores y defensoras del ambiente y el derecho a la tierra en riesgo, que cuestionan a las compañías extractivas. Máxima confronta con Newmont Mining (EE.UU.) y su contraparte peruana, Yanococha Maning, que están tratando de que se retire de su tierra para construir una enorme mina de oro, conocida como Conga.