When a gold mine in rural Liberia spewed three million gallons of cyanide-laced wastewater into soil and groundwater in 2016, affected Indigenous communities’ calls for accountability went largely ...

(Beirut) – The United Kingdom High Court issued an order on October 11, 2024, granting permission to a Saudi human rights defender who lives in the UK to bring a case that accuses the government of ...

(Beirut) – Egyptian authorities have renewed their judicial harassment of Hossam Bahgat, a leading human rights defender and the executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR ...

Environmental and Indigenous rights defenders remained among the world’s most targeted human rights advocates in 2025, despite landmark rulings by international courts affirming governments’ ...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on Tuesday urged Togo authorities to release Togolese-Irish citizen and human rights defender Abdoul Aziz Goma from prison on the ...

One evening in January 2023, Indigenous leader Antonio Díaz Valencia and human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca vanished. Earlier that day, the men had participated in a community meeting ...

When Sharifa Madrakhimova received her passport via mail from Dublin, with her Irish visa affixed inside, the document had been rendered invalid by burns and cuts, preventing her from leaving the ...

Most people in the region are living in countries with closed or repressed civic space where their freedoms to speak up, organize, or mobilize are under attack on a daily basis. The CIVICUS Monitor ...

Eight human rights organizations called on Kyrgyzstan authorities on Friday to take necessary measures for the safety of Makhabat Tazhibek Kyzy, an imprisoned human rights defender who has received ...

Uganda is experiencing a growing climate of fear as increasing restrictions on fundamental freedoms leave opposition ...