On April 4-7, Civil Rights Defenders hosted Defenders’ Days – Empowering Human Rights Defenders at Risk, a four day conference welcoming 160 human rights defenders from 35 countries, alongside leading human rights experts from all over the world, to Stockholm, Sweden. Civil Rights Defenders Executive Director Robert Hårdh is a member of the World…
According to an article in the Guardian, a court in Angola has jailed 17 young activists on March 28, 2016. The activists were imprisoned for rebelling against the government of José Eduardo dos Santos, after they organized a reading of a US academic’s book. The activists were arrested in the capital, Luanda, last June…
Alongside the 31th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held in Geneva, a group of Saudi Arabian civil society organizations, including the Saudi Organization for Rights and Freedoms, the Saudi European Organization for Human Rights, Advocating for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, Diwani al-Ahli Organization, and Monitor of Human Rights in…
Towards the end of March, the Egyptian government continued their ongoing investigation of NGOs in Egypt, specifically related to Case No 173, or the case on foreign funding for NGOs, which dates back to 2011. The case and its findings have been used to give 1 to 5 year sentences to over 40 foreign…