Resources and Publications

La Memoria Anual (Dispatches) 2016 presenta el trabajo que Front Line Defenders ha emprendido en 2016 en todo el mundo para la protección y seguridad de defensoras/es de derechos humanos en riesgo, a través de un resumen del impacto de los programas de subvenciones, capacitaciones, visibilidad, descanso y respiro y otros. Incluye el lanzamiento del HRD Memorial, en homenaje a las/os defensoras/es de derechos humanos asasesinados desde que entró en vigor la Declaración sobre defensores de derechos humanos de la ONU en el año 1998.

A publication of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition, this manual is motivated by the courageous activism of people—and in particular, women—around the world who dare to resist, to fight for what we believe is right, and to put our lives o

Ana Maria has helped hundreds of Dominicans of Haitian descent reclaim their rights, and resist racism and discrimination. Lorraine leads innovative education initiatives, to raise awareness about environmental rights in communities affected by coal mining in South Africa. Nisha successfully challenged a law discriminating against transgender people in Malaysia, and set up the first organisation providing support to the trans community in her country.

Here are the activists at risk for defending them.

When members of Juan Francisco Martínez’s community found his body in January 2015, his body bore marks of torture. One of his hands was still tied with what appeared to be laces from military boots.

Juan, a human rights defender and indigenous Lenca man from Honduras, was found on 5 January 2015 in the village of Tapuyman in the Santa Elena Municipality of La Paz, Honduras. He had been killed the day before.