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Vanessa Mendoza Cortés Acquittal: Triumph in Free Speech Advocacy

Vanessa Mendoza Cortés acquittal on January 17, 2024, marked a significant moment in human rights advocacy. A court in Andorra...

Vanessa Mendoza Cortés Acquittal: Triumph in Free Speech Advocacy

Vanessa Mendoza Cortés acquittal on January 17, 2024, marked a significant moment in human rights advocacy. A court in Andorra...

Afghanistan: Stop the crackdown on women’s rights protesters

Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, women in Afghanistan have faced severe repression. Women protesting against the...

Iran: Free women human rights defenders Narges Mohammadi and Zeynab Jalalian

Narges Mohammadi and Zeynab Jalalian, both long-term women human rights defenders, have been repeatedly targeted and detained for their human...

Amnesty report tracks years-long campaign of criminalization, unlawful surveillance against Wet’suwet’en land defenders

A new report traces years-long campaign of violence, harassment, discrimination, and dispossession against Indigenous land defenders in Canada....

Kanahus Manuel: “Canada must end violence against Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ land and water defenders”

Kanahus Manuel is a land and water defender, tattoo artist and traditional birth keeper belonging to the Secwepemc and Ktunaxa...

Afghanistan: Stop punishing women protesters

Since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, women protesting Taliban’s draconian policies have been forcibly disappeared, arbitrarily arrested,...

The Hidden Figures of #DropKiwiFarms

Liz Fong-Jones is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 18+ years of experience....

Iran: Security forces used rape and other sexual violence to crush “Woman Life Freedom” uprising with impunity 

Security forces in Iran used rape and other forms of sexual violence, amounting to torture and other ill-treatment, to intimidate and...

Iran: Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s health at risk

Iranian authorities have been subjecting arbitrarily detained human rights defender and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Narges Mohammadi to torture...

Iranian women and girls face further violations of their rights under compulsory veiling bill

Armita Garawand, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, remains in a coma after falling unconscious on 1 October 2023 at a Tehran metro...

Armita Garawand: Independent investigation into schoolgirl’s critical injuries needed amid mounting evidence of a cover up in Iran

The international community must demand that the Iranian authorities allow the UN Fact-Finding Mission and other independent monitors to enter the country...

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