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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!
Never have we needed a robust international human rights system so badly. But the UN human rights system is in crisis and must be reformed. We need institutions that are principled, consistent, and accountable. Follow our campaign to find out how!
We need a new Special Rapporteur for human rights defenders highly qualified and independent!
The Committee on NGOs – which determines which NGOs can or cannot participate in UN meetings – will face elections in April 2026. Join ISHR’s campaign to ensure States nominate and vote for candidates who will defend civil society’s access and participation to the UN!
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.
We call on Venezuelan authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Eduardo Torres, Rocío San Miguel, Javier Tarazona, Kennedy Tejeda and every human rights defender unfairly detained in Venezuela.
ISHR and partners continue to call for meaningful action by States at the UN to advance accountability for past and ongoing crimes under international law.
Some States use travel bans as a reprisal against human rights defenders who cooperate with the United Nations. These acts of retaliation are designed to isolate, intimidate, and silence them. Join us in our campaign to #EndReprisals and end travel bans against defenders.
14 countries are running for a seat at the Human Rights Council. All of them need to improve their human rights record. Join the HRC elections 2025 campaign!
Call on Venezuelan authorities to disclose the fate and whereabouts and immediately and unconditionally release the Executive Director of Espacio Público, Carlos Correa, arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared by individuals believed to be connected with State security forces.
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.
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!
Join us to build a fairer, more equal and more sustainable society by supporting human rights!
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