Category: Media Monitoring
Georgian political prisoners released
Paris, Tbilisi, 17 March 2013 – FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) and the Human Rights Center (HRIDC) in Georgia welcome the recent release of 190 political prisoners under Georgia’s Law on Amnesty, passed on 12 January 2013. We encourage the Georgian government to undertake further judicial reform. In a 2009 report entitled After the rose, […]
BAHRAIN: Ongoing arbitrary arrests and judicial harassment of human rights defenders
Paris-Geneva, March 19, 2013. As new cases of arbitrary arrests and ongoing judicial harassment against Ms. Zainab Al-Khawaja have been reported in Bahrain, 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), remains extremely concerned with the very repressive climate faced by human […]
Publication of the Annual Report 2013
Geneva-Paris, February 28, 2013. In its newly published Annual Report, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders focuses on a new setback impeding the work of human rights defenders. Access to funding, in particular foreign funding, is increasingly being hindered by governments, whose primary intentions are to silence human rights defenders. This obstacle, […]
Commandant of the Guinean Army and Governor of Conakry
On 14 February 2013, Sékou Resco Camara was indicted and was heard at length by the magistrate in charge of the case as part of a judicial inquiry opened in May 2012 following a complaint lodged by FIDH and OGDH. FIDH and its member organisation in Guinea, the Guinean Organisation for Human and Citizens’ Rights […]
European Court of Human Rights: ban on same-sex second-parent adoption is discriminatory
Today the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in the case of X and Others v. Austria (application 19010/07) and ruled that Austria’s Civil Code discriminates against a partner in a same-sex relationship by making it legally impossible to adopt the biological child of the other partner while permitting second parent adoptions for […]
SYRIA: Where is human rights lawyer Khalil Maatouk?
Paris-Geneva, February 18, 2013. 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), expresses its utmost concern for the physical and psychological integrity of human rights lawyer Khalil Maatouk after his enforced disappearance 139 days ago. Mr. Khalil Maatouk, a human rights lawyer who has […]
Bloggers and Netizens Behind Bars: Restrictions on Internet Freedom in Vietnam
Paris, Tuesday 13 February – In a new joint report released today, FIDH and its member organization, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, call on the Vietnamese government to end its escalating assault on freedom of expression and its criminalization of bloggers and netizens. The 42-page report, entitled “Bloggers and Netizens Behind Bars: Restrictions on Internet Freedom […]
Senegal: Hissne Habre Court Opens
Dakar, February 8, 2013 – The inauguration of a special court in Senegal marks a turning point in the long campaign to bring to justice the former dictator of Chad Hissène Habré, a coalition of human rights groups said today. Habré is accused of thousands of political killings and systematic torture during his presidency, from 1982 […]
Egypt: Post revolution president following in Mubarak’s footsteps?
Paris, Cairo, 31 January 2013 – “We are extremely concerned by the increasing violence during demonstrations and condemn the response of the Egyptian authorities that have once again used excessive force in their handling of demonstrations” stated Souhayr Belhassen, FIDH President on Wednesday, January 31, 2013. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) deplores the tragedy that resulted […]
Joint Open Letter
Re: Arbitrary internment of Le Anh Hung in “Social Support Centre No 2” Ung Hoa, Hanoi, January 24, 2013 Your Excellencies, 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), together with the Vietnam Committee on Human […]
