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Mar 12 2019 4:13pm
Brazil: Arrests are first sign of progress in investigation into killing of Marielle Franco
Responding to reports that Brazilian police have arrested two men in R...
Mar 11 2019 2:42pm
Urgent Action: Turkey must release civil society figures
Osman Kavala, Yiğit Aksakoğlu and 14 other prominent civil society fig...
Mar 11 2019 10:01am
Urgent Action: Indigenous community attacked by armed men
The Ysati Indigenous community in the district of Itakyry (department ...
Mar 8 2019 5:30pm
Write For Rights 2018 wrap up
We’re still counting – but it looks like well over five million pe...
Mar 5 2019 10:18am
Urgent Action update: Women’s rights defender faces 34 years in jail
Prominent detained Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, faces...
Mar 4 2019 12:03pm
Urgent Action: NGOs and human rights defenders at risk
Proposed legislative reform in Guatemala would impose undue restrictio...
Feb 28 2019 3:21pm
Urgent Action: Environmental rights defender killed
Samir Flores Soberanes, environmental, land and territory human rights...
Feb 26 2019 1:59pm
Urgent Action: Prominent defender must be released
The final hearing in the trial against Oyub Titiev, prominent human ri...
Feb 26 2019 11:30am
Urgent Action update: Human rights lawyer at risk of torture
Beijing human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has been indicted and his case...
Feb 26 2019 10:26am
Urgent Action update: Indigenous human rights defenders at risk
Armed men abducted Mexican Indigenous human rights defenders, Obtilia ...