This report details the cases of six women, all activists in their various fields, who have been threatened, imprisoned and, in one case, killed as a result of their activities. The cases are: Myanmar (Burma): Aung San Suu Kyi, prisoner of conscience; Malawi: Vera Chirwa, longest-serving prisoner of conscience in Africa; Turkey: Leyla Zana, Kurdish independent MP, threatened with death; Colombia: Blanca Cecilia Valero de Duran, secretary of the human rights committee CREDHOS, killed; Cuba: dissident Maria Elena Cruz Varela, imprisoned; Tunisia: Nour al-Houda al-Bahri, former prisoner of conscience and member of the illegal Parti communiste des ouvriers tunisiens, allegedly tortured and threatened with rape when five months’ pregnant.
1993 Women’s Action
Topics
- Armed Conflict
- Censorship and Freedom of Expression
- Colombia
- Cuba
- Detention
- Discrimination
- Human Rights Defenders and Activists
- Justice Systems
- Killings and Disappearances
- Malawi
- Myanmar
- Press Freedom
- Prisoners of Conscience
- Racial Discrimination
- Report
- Research
- Sexual Violence
- Torture and other ill-treatment
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Unfair Trials
- Unlawful Killings
- Women and Girls
- Women's Rights