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You have the power to create a better tomorrow for everyone! We all benefit from human rights and we all have the right to promote and protect them. When we come together recognising our shared humanity, we can hold each other to account, seek justice and craft solutions to our shared challenges. Support our human rights campaigning!
25 years ago, the United Nations adopted the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. The Declaration has been essential to protect those who defend human rights, but laws and contexts have evolved. The Declaration+25 supplements the Declaration and together they form a comprehensive set of standards to protect the right to defend rights.
ISHR joins the call by women human rights defenders from Afghanistan, activists and legal experts for the international community to recognise and prosecute the crime of gender apartheid.
We are mobilising the international community to put pressure on the Chinese Government to #RepealRSDL, a form of enforced disappearance widely used to silence those who defend human rights. Join our campaign!
Imagine determined individuals speaking up for what’s right for their communities, and then facing intimidation, threats and even imprisonment when they engage with the United Nations. This is not acceptable. 2024 ISHR annual campaign to #EndReprisals!
19 countries ran for a seat at the Human Rights Council. All of them needed to improve their human rights record. We campaigned to make sure the Council remained strong and principled and for Member States to NOT elect Saudi Arabia!
Ten years ago, Chinese woman human rights defender Cao Shunli was a victim of deadly reprisals for engaging with the United Nations. The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) and partners paid her tribute and honoured other Chinese, Uyghur, Tibetan and Hong Kong human rights defenders who continue to hold the Chinese government accountable.
We successfully campaigned to make sure States at the UN renewed the FFM and OHCHR mandates in September 2024.
Human rights defenders are essential voices from our communities. They face intimidation and reprisals when engaging with the United Nations. 2023 ISHR annual campaign to #EndReprisals!
International and local Nicaraguan civil society organisations called for the renewal of key United Nations human rights protection mechanism on Nicaragua.
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