Pocket Protest

Six weeks after she was sentenced to be hanged for apostasy, Meriam Ibrahim, a 27-year-old mother in Sudan, has been freed from death row.
Over a million people around the world joined our call to Sudan to free Meriam - including a quarter of a million people in the UK. Thank you. You have been heard, and Meriam's death sentence has been overturned.

Imprisoned Kurdish activist Zeynab Jalalian could lose her sight unless she is granted the medical care she needs. Join our appeal to the Iranian authorities now.

Good news for women and girls in Mozambique: the country's parliament
has said it will not pass a proposed law that would allow rapists to escape prosecution if they marry their victims.
International pressure and protests in Mozambique appear to have succeeded in stopping rights for women and girls rolling back further.

Elena Klimova was facing anti-gay 'propaganda' charges for running a website offering support to LGBTI teenagers.
Thousands of you emailed the authorities asking them to drop the charges. The case against Elena has now been closed and her online project will be able to continue.

Missing Ukrainian anti-government protestor Dmitrii Bulatov has been found. He disappeared on 22 January and we feared for his safety. He alleges he was abducted by the police and tortured. At least five protestors have already been killed since the demonstrations started in Ukraine last November.

Compassion, humanity and human rights have finally won out in the shocking case of a 15 year old girl sentenced to flogging for the 'crime' of fornication.

After thousands of you took action for Beatriz she received the life saving medical treatment she needed. Now she has written you this letter to say thank you.

22-year-old Beatriz got the medical treatment she had been denied to save her life. Thank you to the thousands of you who took action.

By raising our voices together we can prevent injustice, and give strength and protection to the most vulnerable.

Three women who were being held by a group that accused them on sorcery are now free and safe.

The Prime Minster of Papua New Guinea has also announced he intends to scrap the Sorcery Act.

Our Urgent Action Network is made up of 150,000 people around the world who are outraged by injustice and prepared to act swiftly at critical moments to stop it. When someone is in immediate danger those responsible will receive thousands of messaged from every part of the globe.

Defence lawyer Magamed Abubakarov started getting death threats by text in February 2013, but the police failed to act to stop the intimidation.

After thousands of Pocket Protestors said that wasn't good enough the Police launched an investigation into the threats.

Five activists in the United Arab Emirates who were detained for seven months and charged with publicly insulting the country's rulers have been released.