Category: Media Monitoring
What happened to Zeenat Shahzadi?
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses grave concern for Pakistani journalist Zeenat Shahzadi who has been missing since August 2015. The IFJ demands Pakistan’s authorities to take immediate action to find her kidnappers and reveal the status of investigations into the disappearance of the young woman reporter. Zeenat Shahzadi, a journalist for the Daily Nai […]
SAHR Expresses Concern on the Curtailment of the Freedom of Expression in the Maldives
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, strongly condemn the legalization of the Anti-Defamation and Freedom of Expression Act by The Maldivian Parliament on 9 August, 2016 and for not addressing the serious concerns raised and amendments suggested by civil society, political parties, and the international community. The law […]
Disappearance of human rights defender Abdul Wahid Baloch
On 4 August 2016, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) formed a Fact Finding Committee to investigate the disappearance of human rights defender Mr Abdul Wahid Baloch on 26 July 2016 near a highway toll plaza in Karachi. Abdul Wahid Baloch is a human rights defender who has called for justice for the Baloch […]
Pakistan: ICJ condemns attack on lawyers and others in Quetta
The ICJ has deplored a suicide attack at a hospital in Quetta, which killed dozens of people today, in the deadliest attack ever on lawyers in Pakistan and among the worst anywhere. Many of those killed were lawyers, who had been gathered at a hospital in Quetta following the killing of former president of the Balochistan […]
New ICJ Report on “Military Injustice in Pakistan”
In January 2015, Pakistan empowered military courts to try civilians for terrorism-related offences as part of its 20-point “National Action Plan”, adopted by the Government following the horrific attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar. The National Action Plan envisioned military courts to be a short-term “solution” to try “terrorists”, to be operational only […]
8 March: Being born a girl means clearing a lot of hurdles
Monday 7 March 2016 All throughout their lives, women and girls must face various types of discrimination that greatly compromise their future prospects. During this International Women’s Rights Day, FIDH will be highlighting this sad fact in a video made by Agence Babel, with the voice of American film maker Randa Haines. FIDH reminds us […]
Amnesty International Human Rights Award 2016 goes to Henri Tiphagne from India
Award ceremony to be held on April 25 at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin, Germany BERLIN, 25 JANUARY 2016 – Indian lawyer and human rights defender Henri Tiphagne will be awarded the 8th Human Rights Award by Amnesty International Germany. The award, which will be presented at an official ceremony on April 25 at […]
Defence of women’s rights and religious response: update and strategies by feminist activists from 11 countries
Paris, Rabat, 16 December 2015 – In the framework of a reflexion on the link between human rights and religion, FIDH conducted a seminar in Rabat (Morocco) on the impact of Islamism on women’s rights in a zone called the “Arc of Crisis”. Some thirty experts representing 11 countries where Islamist groups or parties have […]
Bahrain : Rights groups condemn death penalty sentence of Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa
Paris, 16 December 2015 – The undersigned organisations condemn the practice of capital punishment in Bahrain and urge the Government of Bahrain to commute any and all death sentences issued by its courts. On 29th December 2014, a Bahraini criminal court sentenced Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa to death for their alleged involvement in […]
Ecuador: Increase of the criminalisation of social protest in the context of extraction plans
Paris, Quito, 10 December 2015. FIDH and its member organisations in Ecuador, CEDHU and INREDH present and publish today a report (in spanish) analysing the phenomenon of criminalisation of social protest in Ecuador and urge the State to recognise the importance of freedom of speech and the legitimacy of peaceful denunciation, opposition and monitoring of […]
