Alkhawaja is a Bahraini Woman Human Rights Defender who works as a consultant and trainer on Human Rights. She is a leading voice for human rights and political reform in Bahrain and the Gulf region. Alkhawaja has been influential in shaping official responses to human rights atrocities in Bahrain and the Gulf region by leading campaigns…
Executive director of Fundacion Pachamama, an Ecuadorian NGO dedicated to protecting the rain forest and advancing the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.
Ethiopia: The World Movement is thrilled to learn that Dr. Merera Gudina was released on January 17, after serving more than year in pre-trial detention. Dr. Gudina, a scholar and chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), was arrested and accused of violating Ethiopia’s 10-month state of emergency. He was released along with 527 others as part of a larger government amnesty…
On January 8, 2018, the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) issued a statement of concern regarding the recent invasive security measures and harassment undertaken by the Chinese government against the Uyghur ethnic minority living in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The CECC noted the exponential increase in security forces, arbitrary arrests, and the systemic, “involuntary collection…