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Oct 16 2018 12:08pm
Urgent Action update: Whereabouts of human rights lawyer unknown in Egypt
Ezzat Ghoniem, a human rights defender and co-founder and director of ...
Oct 5 2018 3:51pm
Urgent Action update: Amal Fathy sentenced for her peaceful activism in Egypt
 On 29 September, Egyptian woman human rights defender, Amal Fathy, wa...
Sep 18 2018 2:18pm
Urgent Action good news: Dalit rights activist released in India
Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’, a prominent Dalit rights activist, has be...
Sep 17 2018 3:55pm
Urgent Action: Wave of detentions of students and activists in Nicaragua
Detention of student leaders and other social activists have increased...
Sep 10 2018 4:23pm
Narges Mohammadi: Iranian human rights defender wins Nobel Peace Prize
Who is Narges Mohammadi? Narges Mohammadi is a distinguised human r...
Sep 10 2018 2:14pm
Urgent Action: Anti-slavery activists arbitrarily detained in Mauritania
Two members of the anti-slavery organization Initiative for the Resurg...
Sep 10 2018 11:34am
Urgent Action update: Chinese rights defender faces 15 years in jail
Zhen Jianghua reportedly stood trial over the charge of “inciting subv...
Aug 29 2018 12:11pm
Good things come in threes
These last weeks of summer have been exceptional for us, seeing the re...
Aug 23 2018 9:20am
Not Just Wilberforce
This is a collection of essays for Amnesty International on Human Righ...
Aug 23 2018 12:01am
Saudia Arabia: Outrageous ongoing detention of women's rights defenders reaches 100 days
At least 11 leading human rights defenders recently detained without c...