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UN Rights Commissioner: attacks on rights defenders reached alarming levels in 2025

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a report on Wednesday documenting record level attacks against human rights defenders in 2025. The Special Ra...

Protecting Environmental Rights Defenders Is Key to Giving Communities a Voice

Environmental human rights defenders must be empowered to design and implement their own forms of collective protection to shift the power imbalance. The post Protecting Environmen...

Rights defender killings hit record high as UN pushes to shore up humanitarian action

Attacks against human right defenders have reached record levels over the past year, according to a new report issued on Wednesday by the UN human rights office, OHCHR.Read the ful...

Women Defenders of the Colombian Amazon

Colombia is among the most dangerous countries for environmental defenders. Yet here, women stand as frontline defenders of both nature and culture. Mongabay is documenting the wom...

A Voice for Ukraine’s Soldiers

Meet the rights defender charged with protecting the country’s fighters — not from Russia, but from abuses by their own commanders.

‘Closing the Gaps’ on Needed Action to End Attacks on Health

Click to expand Image Debris in a procedure room at Maternity Hospital No. 5 after a Rus...

Environmental defenders remain among world’s most targeted activists

A new report found that environmental defenders are increasingly encountering overlapping networks of government officials, corporations, criminal groups, and private security forc...

Indonesia: Plan to Vet Human Rights Defenders

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European Parliament Presses for Action to End Transnational Repression

Click to expand Image The European Parliament chamber in Strasbourg, France, February 11...

‘Human rights are part of our DNA’: UN launches global alliance to counter rising threats

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has launched a Global Alliance for Human Rights, a broad coalition aimed at placing the issue at the heart of decision-making, when conflict leve...

UN Climate Resolution: Time to Protect Activists

LONDON, June 5 (IPS) - Ahead of World Environment Day, the UN General Assembly made a vital commitment to protect people from climate impacts, adopting a resolution on the climate...

Human Rights Defenders to Deploy Drones, Monitors During June 25 Commemoration

A group of human rights defenders and protest victims has unveiled a security preparedness plan for June 25, when Kenya will commemorate and honour civilians killed during the 2025...

Time for Europe to Recognize the Right to a Healthy Environment

On the eve of World Environment Day, I joined around 400 environmental defenders and policymakers from across Europe in Strasbourg, France, where they gathered at the first Europea...

Dispatches From Ukraine’s Frontlines, Where Feminist Organizing Has Become an Act of Survival

A lecture and discussion were about to begin in a local public library. It could have been a scene in New York, London or Melbourne. Yet this event was in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, ju...

He survived a deadly attack, now he is calling for better working conditions for rangers in DRC

In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa, protecting nature can cost you your life. For years, rangers operating in parks such as Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega have wor...

Tunisia: Harsh Sentences for Rights Defenders

Click to expand Image Saadia Mosbah (center), president of the antiracism association Mn...

The Silent Front: How Nigeria’s Military Is Redefining National Security Ahead of 2027

When Nigerians think of the Armed Forces, the image is usually stark: troops in desert fatigues, armored vehicles rolling through the Northeast, gunboats patrolling the Niger Delta...

Rights Defender Sentenced to 8 Years in Azerbaijan

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The front line of the home front: Magen David Adom is Israel’s emergency backbone

For MDA, the underlying assumption is straightforward: emergency medicine is no longer operating at the margins of national preparedness; it has become part of the infrastructure i...

Sounding the Alarm over Tunisia’s Crackdown

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A Declaration of Resistance

A Declaration of Resistance Kate Noble Tue, 06/23/2026 - 15:34