A recently updated report released by the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) entitled the “Manual to Defend the Rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples” provides indigenous people—as well as the organizations who fight on their behalf—tools and legal information that can aid in the defense of their rights. Available in both Spanish and Portuguese,…
On September 19, 2018, a court in Belgrade established that the editor of a daily newspaper called The Informer broke a law against hate speech by publishing an article attacking an activist and former Hurford Youth Fellow Anita Mitic and her former organization the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR). The editor was ordered to pay…
Over the past decade, authorities in Azerbaijan have prosecuted hundreds of activists, journalists, and public figures on politically motivated charges like drug possession, tax evasion, illegal entrepreneurship, and even treason. In September 2018, the Working Group on a Unified List of Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan presented a list of 130 political prisoners. However, these prisoners…
Call for inputs from the Special Rapporteur on the rights of freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Mr. Clément Nyaletsossi Voulé on the upcoming country visit to Tunisia (17 – 28 September 2018) The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of freedom peaceful assembly and of association, Mr. Clément Nyaletsossi Voulé, will undertake…