Members of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in Colombia have been the focus of suspicion and hostility from all parties to the armed conflict since the ...
Palestinian families living in Humsa and Hadidiya hamlets in the Jordan Valley region of the West Bank, part of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, face a daily ...
Konstantina Kuneva, a Bulgarian migrant worker and trade union leader, was severely injured in a sulphuric acid attack by unknown men. She lost her sight in one ...
Human rights defender Rita Mahato has been threatened with death, rape and kidnapping as a result of her work helping women in Nepal who have suffered acts of violence ...
Yong Vui Kong received a stay of execution on 3 December 2009, but is now scheduled for execution on 11 December. His appeal will be heard by the Court of Appeals ...
Human rights lawyer Wang Yonghang has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in connection with his work representing Falun Gong practitioners. He has appealed ...
The family of Mariano Abarca Roblero and other environmental protesters in Chicomuselo, southern Mexico, are at risk after Mariano Abarca was shot and killed in ...
