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Human Rights Defenders - Documents -
11-03-2010 | Joint statement on the occasion of the interactive dialogue with Ms. Sekaggya, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders - 13th session of the UN Human Rights Council

Joint NGO Statement to the Human Rights Council by Human Rights First and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

13th session

March 11, 2010

Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders

 
Human Rights Defenders - Open letters -
Occupied Palestinian Territ.
Israel

10-03-2010 | Restricting the Space of Israeli Human Rights Defenders and Organisations Working in Israel and the OPT

Brussels, 10 March 2010

RE: RESTRICTING THE SPACE OF ISRAELI HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND ORGANISATIONS WORKING IN ISRAEL AND THE OPT


Dear Minister Moratinos,
Dear High Representative Ashton,

Aprodev, CIDSE, Front Line, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint program of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), are ...

 
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Poverty, Inequality, Discrimination and Violence - Press Releases -
Guatemala

09-03-2010 | Call to declare the Right to Food a national priority for Guatemala - International organisations deeply concerned about attacks against human rights defenders

Geneva/Guatemala, March 9, 2010: Several international organisations and networks that presented a report on the Right to Food call attention at national and international levels to the situation of hunger and malnutrition existing in Guatemala. They demand that the Right to Food be declared a national priority. Moreover, they urge to cease violence and threats against social, community, indigenous, peasant and trade union leaders, and to effectively protect human rights defenders.

The mission report on the Right to Food in Guatemala was handed over on March 8 in Geneva to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, ...

 
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases -
Lebanon

08-03-2010 | Investigate Seizure of Human Rights Lawyer’s Passport

[Arabic version in pdf]

General Security Held Nizar Saghieh’s British Passport Until Minister Intervened

(Beirut, March 8, 2010) – The Lebanese government should investigate the seizure of a human rights lawyer’s passport by General Security, a group of 16 Lebanese and international human rights organizations said today.

General Security withheld the British passport for the lawyer, Nizar Saghieh, a dual British and Lebanese ...

 
OMCT - general activities - Press Releases -
05-03-2010 | FIFDH - Festival du Film et Forum International sur les Droits Humains - 8e édition - du 5 au 14 mars 2010, Genève
 
Human Rights Defenders - Urgent Appeals -
Syrian Arab Republic

05-03-2010 | Human rights defender denied access to Syria!

Paris-Geneva, March 5, 2010. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), together with the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), condemn the de facto travel ban imposed by the Syrian authorities against Mr. Wadih Al-Asmar, Secretary General of the Lebanese Centre for Human Rights (CLDH) and member of the Executive Committee of the EMHRN.

On February 21, 2010, Mr. Wadih Al-Asmar, who has been active for many years on the issue of the ...

 
OMCT - general activities - Press Releases -
03-03-2010 | Information on the appointment of the next Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

Dear Members of the SOS-Torture Network, Dear colleagues,

In September 2010 at the 15th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the President of the Council is to appoint an independent human rights expert to serve as the next Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In this respect, careful consideration is required to maintain the high quality of appointments to this important position.

Suggestions for appointment should be based on the technical and objective requirements for eligible candidates for Special Procedure ...

 
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases -
Kyrgyzstan

03-03-2010 | Landmark decision by the Constitutional Court on the right to freedom of assembly

Paris-Geneva, March 3, 2010. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), welcomes the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Kyrgyz Republic recognising the unconstitutionality of legal provisions undermining the right to freedom of assembly but remains concerned about the other restrictions placed on human rights activities in Kyrgyzstan.

On March 2, 2010, the Constitutional Court of Kyrgyzstan declared several provisions of the current Law on public ...

 
Urgent Campaigns - Press Releases -
Mexico

02-03-2010 | Mrs. Alberta Alcántara and Mrs. Teresa González appealed against unfair decision
 
Human Rights Defenders - Open letters -
Indonesia

02-03-2010 | Ongoing impunity in the assassination of human rights defender Munir Said Thalib

Open Letter to Mr. Henderman Supangji,
State Attorney-General of Indonesia

Paris-Geneva, March 2, 2010

 

Re: Ongoing impunity in the assassination in 2004 of human rights defender Munir Said Thalib

Excellency,

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), and the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) express their deepest ...