This August, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) hosted their inaugural Political Leadership Academy program for female mayors in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The three-month training program connects leading female activists from around the world to share their best practices with newly elected mayors. Twelve women have recently been elected to local offices in Haiti – a milestone…
On August 4, 2016, a Kazakh court ordered the early release of Vladimir Kozlov, an activist who has been jailed since 2012 on politically motivated charges. Kozlov was the leader of the Alga! (Forward) opposition party and a prominent human rights advocate. In 2011, he led an advocacy campaign in support of Zhanaozen oil workers…
On August 19, 2016, the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy (REDLAD) issued an alert expressing concern about the Ecuadorian government’s arbitrary dissolution of the National Union of Educators (UNE). The Ecuador’s Education Ministry rescinded the union’s non-profit status, claiming that “it failed to disclose full information about its leadership.” The UNE is one…
BAHRAIN: Nabeel Rajab’s trial has been postponed again to September 5. He is currently awaiting trial for charges in relation to his twitter posts in which he spoke out against the use of torture in Bahrain’s prisons. Others from his organization, Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, have had travel bans imposed on them by the…