Amnesty International strongly condemned the decision, noting how“the verdict continues the pattern of impunity for Israeli military violations against civilians and human rights defenders in the Occupied Palestinian Territories(OPT).
We are stunned and appalled by the suspicious death of such a prominent and respected human rights defender,” said Veronique Aubert, deputy director of Amnesty's Africa Programme.
Reminding the authorities to fulfill their obligations to ensure human rights defenders can carry out their work without fear, as laid out in the 1998 UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders.
Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendant and peasant farmer communities, as well as human rights defenders, community leaders and trade unionists, have been particularly at risk.
It will continue funding the European Centre for Press and Media freedom(ECPMF) and providing targeted protection through Human Rights Defenders Support programmes.
The continuing failure of the Russian authorities to respect and safeguard the work of human rights defenders as an integral part of a functioning society is in breach of their international obligations.
Amnesty International urges the Russian authorities to ensure on all levels that justice will be done in regard to her murder and to demonstrate clearly that there is no impunity for attacks on human rights defenders and journalists.
Amnesty International today welcomed the decision to drop the charges against four Indigenous human rights defenders, who have been imprisoned for nearly a year in Guerrero State, but called for the release of the remaining defender who is still being held on fabricated charges.
In yet another example of Saudi Arabia's absolute intolerance of peaceful dissent, on Monday 12 January, Raif Badawi's lawyer, human rights defender Waleed Abu al-Khair, had his sentence upheld upon appeal.
In the past two months, arbitrary arrest of journalists and opposition leaders, repression of peaceful political events, and death threats against human rights defenders raise concerns for the forthcoming 2011 pre-electoral and electoral phases.
On 12 May 2016, four UN Special Rapporteurs jointly called on the Government of Cambodia to“stop targeting civil society, human rights defenders, parliamentarians and UN personnel and to take effective measures to protect civil society and respect fundamental freedoms in the country.”.
Amid increasing violence in eastern DRC, human rights defenders and journalists play a vital role in documenting abuses committed by both sides and informing the international community of the fighting's impact on the civilian population," said Paule Rigaud, deputy Africa program director at Amnesty International.
Although combat-related violence against civilians has fallen sharply since the start of the peace process, attacks against human rights defenders, especially Indigenous, Afro-descendant and peasant farmer leaders, continue in alarming numbers.
Amnesty International is concerned about the security and the right to freedom of expression and association of human rights defenders and opposition leaders in the DRC as the country prepares to enter the pre-electoral period ahead of the November 2011 presidential elections.
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