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Lao PDR: Stop deporting human rights defenders, says UN expert (Press Release)
Official Letters and StatementsPress Release: Lao PDR must stop deporting human rights defenders to countries where there are substantial grounds to believe that they would face grave human rights violations.
UN expert on human rights defenders to visit Georgia (Press Release)
Official Letters and Statements[English / ქართული] Press Release: The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, will conduct an official country visit to Georgia from 30 October to 7 November 2023.
India: detention and state of health of human rights defender G.N. Saibaba (joint communication)
Official Letters and StatementsThis is the summary of a joint communication sent to the Government of India about the detention and state of health of human rights defender G.N. Saibaba.
Uganda: arrests, acts of intimidation and judicial harassment of environmental HRD Bob Barigye (joint communication)
Official Letters and StatementsThis is the summary of a joint communication sent to the Government of Uganda and other actors about the arrests, acts of intimidation and judicial harassment of environmental HRD Bob Barigye.
Colombia: atentado contra la vida del defensor de los derechos humanos Alirio Perdomo (comunicación conjunta)
Official Letters and StatementsLo que sigue se basa en una comunicación enviada a los Gobiernos de Colombia e Italia y a la empresa Enel sobre el atentado contra la vida del defensor de los derechos humanos Alirio Perdomo.
China: UN expert urges release of human rights defender Guo Feixiong (Press Release)
Official Letters and StatementsPress Release: Chinese authorities can no longer ignore calls for the release of human rights defender Guo Feixiong, whose health has been seriously deteriorating in prison.
Iran: re-arrest and detention of women human rights defenders Jina Modares Gorji and Sepideh Gholian (joint communication)
Official Letters and StatementsThis is the summary of a joint communication sent to the Government of Iran about the re-arrest and detention of WHRDs Jina Modares Gorji and Sepideh Gholian.
States must protect women human rights defenders working in conflict and crisis-affected settings: UN expert (Press Release)
Official Letters and StatementsPress Release: States must protect women human rights defenders working in conflict and crisis-affected settings.
Opening remarks before the UN General Assembly (78th session)
Official Letters and StatementsOn 12 October 2023, I gave my opening remarks before the UN General Assembly in New York. I was presenting my latest report: “Pathways to peace: women human rights defenders in conflict, post-conflict and crisis-affected settings”.
México: asesinato de la defensora de los derechos humanos y madre buscadora Teresa Magueyal (comunicación conjunta)
Official Letters and StatementsLo que sigue se basa en una comunicación enviada al Gobierno de México sobre el asesinato de la defensora de los derechos humanos y madre buscadora Teresa Magueyal.
México: agresión física y verbal y actos de intimidación contra la defensora de los derechos humanos y madre buscadora Araceli Rodríguez Nava (comunicación conjunta)
Official Letters and StatementsLo que sigue se basa en una comunicación enviada al Gobierno de México sobre el atentado contra la vida, agresión física y verbal, así como actos de intimidación contra la defensora de los derechos humanos y madre buscadora Araceli Rodríguez Nava.
China: ongoing imprisonment of nine Tibetan HRDs on account of their environmental protection work (joint communication)
Official Letters and StatementsThis is the summary of a communication sent to the Government of China about the ongoing imprisonment of nine Tibetan environmental rights defenders.