Category: Media Monitoring
Iran: shameful execution of young woman after flawed investigation
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights and its Iranian member organizations Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) Joint press release Iran: shameful execution of young woman after flawed investigation Paris, London, 28 October 2014 – Our organizations strongly condemn the execution of […]
Simone Gbagbo Trial: First of many
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights and its member organizations in Ivory Coast MIDH – Ivorian Movement for Human Rights LIDHO – Ivorian League of Human Rights Joint Press Release Simone Gbagbo Trial: First of many Abidjan, Paris, 24 October 2014 – The start of the trial of 83 people, including Simone Gbagbo who […]
Egypt: 10 Urgent Measures to End Violence Against Women in the Public Sphere
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights Joint statement Egypt: 10 Urgent Measures to End Violence Against Women in the Public Sphere 29 September 2014 – Women in Egypt are subjected to daily sexual harassment and assault on the streets, on public transport and in the workplace. The attacks against female demonstrators in Tahrir […]
“Arbitrary Preventive Detention of Activists in Belarus”
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights and its member organisation in Belarus Human Rights Center Viasna Release of a report “Arbitrary Preventive Detention of Activists in Belarus” Paris-Minsk, 29 September 2014 – In a report released today, our organisations establish that the authorities in Belarus systematically arrest activists prior to important public events […]
More Action, Less Conversation Needed at the Human Rights Council
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights Press release More Action, Less Conversation Needed at the Human Rights Council Geneva, 26 September 2014 – The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) is increasingly failing to fulfill its mandate to address gross and systematic violations, despite calls from human rights defenders and victims of human rights […]
Syria: Free Prominent Rights Defenders
JOINT STATEMENT Syria: Free Prominent Rights Defenders Verdict Scheduled in Charges Before Anti-Terrorism Court (Geneva, September 5, 2014) –The Syrian government should immediately and unconditionally release the arbitrarily detained human rights defender Mazen Darwish and his colleagues Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghareer, 79 organizations said today. The Syrian Anti-Terrorism Court is expected to issue its verdict on September 24, 2014 in their trial for “publicizing terrorist acts.” Darwish […]
KYRGYZSTAN: The Supreme Court refuses to review the sentencing of Mr. Azimjan Askarov to life imprisonment
PRESS RELEASE – THE OBSERVATORY KYRGYZSTAN: The Supreme Court refuses to review the sentencing of Mr. Azimjan Askarov to life imprisonment Paris-Geneva, September 9, 2014. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), condemns the latest court decision regarding the sentencing of human rights […]
Arab League should postpone action to establish a court of human rights
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights Open Letter Arab League should postpone action to establish a court of human rights Open letter to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of member States to the League of Arab States 2 September 2014 Re: Ministerial Council meeting and the adoption of the draft Statute of the […]
Viet Nam: Three human rights defenders sentenced to jail
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) JOINT PRESS RELEASE Viet Nam: Three human rights defenders sentenced to jail Paris-Geneva, August 27, 2014. The arbitrary imprisonment of three human rights defenders on trumped-up charged makes a mockery of Vietnam’s human rights commitments and obligations, the Observatory for […]
DRC / Senegal: Senegalese Court Follows up on Complaint Based on Universal Jurisdiction filed by FIDH and the Families in the Chebeya-Bazana Case
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights and its member and partner organisations in Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo Press release DRC / Senegal: Senegalese Court Follows up on Complaint Based on Universal Jurisdiction filed by FIDH and the Families in the Chebeya-Bazana Case Dakar, Kinshasa, Paris, Nairobi, 27 August 2014 – […]
