World Movement for Democracy participants from the Latin American and Carribean Democracy Network (Redlad) and the #SetThemFree Campaign, including the #SetThemFree Ambassador and #SetThemFree music video duo, will attend CIVICUS’ International Civil Society Week 2016 and multiple activities in Bogota throughout the week. The World Movement is partnering with Redlad to organize multiple sessions…
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…