Dispatches 2018 presents the work Front Line Defenders has undertaken around the world for the protection and security of human rights defenders at risk in 2018, including the impact of grants, training, advocacy, visibility, rest & respite and other programs.
El Análisis Global detalla las agresiones físicas, campañas de difamación, vigilancia y amenazas en el entorno digital, el acoso judicial y los ataques de género que enfrentan defensores y defensoras de derechos humanos. Diciembre de 2018 marcó el vigésimo aniversario de la Declaración de NNUU sobre los defensores de derechos humanos y el 70 aniversario de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, pero los defensores/as de todo el mundo continúan enfrentando amenazas letales de actores estatales, no estatales y corporativos en sus luchas pacíficas por los derechos humanos.
Dispatches 2017 presents the work Front Line Defenders has undertaken around the world for the protection and security of human rights defenders at risk in 2017, including the impact of grants, training, advocacy, visibility, rest & respite and other programs. 2017 marks the 10th year of Risk Assessment and Protection Planning training, while the year also saw the expansion of the programme with the addition of a Security Advisor and an additional Protection Coordinator in West Africa.
Defensores/as de derechos humanos en todo el mundo arriesgan sus vidas para desafiar a dictadores, corporaciones multinacionales destructivas, conservadores religiosos y regímenes opresivos.
The 2017 Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders brought together more than 110 human rights defenders (HRDs) from 99 countries and numerous international guests to share experiences, learn from each other and develop new and more effective strategies for their security and protection. This unique forum gave participating HRDs an opportunity to speak out about challenges and risks they face in their work, analyse new and well-established patterns of oppression and develop strategies to remain resilient and effective.
María Magdalena Tun didn’t choose to become a human rights defender. But when private companies started evicting local communities in her region, polluting the rivers and destroying the forests, she realised she could not sit idly by: she had to defend the rights of her people.
En el Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente, honramos la lucha de las y los defensores de derechos humanos de Guatemala que están arriesgando sus vidas por los derechos medioambientales.
Hace dos semanas, el defensor de la tierra y los derechos indígenas Carlos Maaz Coc Junto con otros/as pescadores/as y campesinos/as, protestaba contra la contaminación causada por los proyectos de minería de níquel en su región.
Search and Rescue organisations patrolling the Libyan coasts have saved thousands of lives that European border policies left to perish.
Despite their life-saving work, the employees and volunteers of these NGOs are routinely accused of colluding with traffickers and helping immigrants to illegally enter Europe.
On 17 April, Kazim Kizil went to film a protest in Izmir, Turkey. People were demonstrating against irregularities in the voting process for the constitutional referendum, which granted president Recep Tayyip Erdogan new sweeping powers.
The rally didn’t last long. Police intervened and detained around 20 people. Kazim was one of them. His camera was seen as a threat: the Turkish authorities did not want anyone documenting the crackdown.
Defensores/as de derechos humanos en todo el mundo arriesgan sus vidas para desafiar a dictadores, corporaciones multinacionales destructivas, conservadores religiosos y regímenes opresivos.
