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Andrea Rocca's Blog
2 Février 2019

At Last, An End to a 5-Year Nightmare

By Andrea Rocca

In October last year, I had the privilege of meeting Damian Gallardo for the first time. It is a name I heard many times since 2013, when he was arrested in the middle of the night in his home in Oaxaca; since then Front Line Defenders – with many others – supported him and his family and campaigned for his release. I met him in what had been his home for five years, a high security prison outside Guadalajara, in the state of Jalisco.

Droits 
#Droits du travail
Violations 
#Acharnement judiciaire #Arrestation / Détention / Emprisonnement
Lieu 
#Mexique
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Maxima Acuna de Chaupe farmstead at sunset
28 Avril 2016

Máxima Acuña de Chaupe - Under Surveillance

By Adam Shapiro

At the end of March, I visited environmental and land rights defender Máxima Acuña de Chaupe at her home in the Cajamarca region of Peru.  The next nonfiction graphic novel we are producing is about environmental and land rights defenders challenging and at risk from resource extraction companies. Máxima is confronting Newmont Mining (US) and its Peruvian counterpart, Yanococha Mining, which are trying to remove her from her land to build a huge gold mine, known as Conga.

Droits 
#Droit de l'environnement #Droit à la terre
Violations 
#Acharnement judiciaire #Agression physique
Lieu 
#Pérou
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Mary Lawlor's Blog
27 Septembre 2015

While China postures on the international stage, women human rights defenders are routinely targeted

By Mary Lawlor

On 27 September China will co-host with UN Women a “Global Leader's Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment” in New York. Chinese President Xi Jinping will address the gathering, as will Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon. The event will mark 20 years since the Beijing Declaration and is intended to place 'gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment at the centre of the global agenda'.

Droits 
#Droits de l'Homme #Droits des femmes et des genres
Violations 
#Acharnement judiciaire #Arrestation / Détention / Emprisonnement
Lieu 
#Chine
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Mary Lawlor's Blog
25 Septembre 2015

Women Human Rights Defenders in China: Twenty Years After Beijing, What's Changed?

By Mary Lawlor

When I arrived at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) in Beijing, Chinese authorities welcomed hundreds of foreign dignitaries and international rights groups with rainbow coloured scarves. Yet, while China hosted what would come to be known as the pre-eminent gathering on gender equality for the next twenty years, the government was also systematically disempowering Tibetan women through its repressive policies towards the Tibetan Autonomous Region.

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