Human Rights Defenders

Human rights defenders expose violations and campaign for redress for victims. They are the people who on their own or with others take action to ensure the promotion and protection of human rights for all. The important thing is not who they are, but what they do. Human rights defenders take peaceful action and believe everybody has equal rights.

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No truth, no justice 40 years after Mexico City massacre

2 October 2008

Forty years ago, the Mexican army opened fire on students peacefully demonstrating in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, on 2 October 1968.

Released prisoner rearrested in Myanmar

26 September 2008

Amnesty International confirmed on Friday that one of the seven prisoners of conscience freed this week, U Win Htein, was re-arrested a few hours after his release.

Eight injured as Sarajevo Queer Festival attacked

26 September 2008

Several people were attacked at the end of the first day of the Sarajevo Queer Festival on Wednesday.