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ISHR has urged UN human rights experts on freedom of assembly and torture to publicly address the unlawful use of metallic pellet guns by India’s law enforcement against protestors taking part in the peaceful ‘Sansad Chalo’ protest organised by the Cockroach Janta Party on 20 July 2026.
The granting of bail to Kashmiri human rights defenders Khurram Parvez and Irfan Mehraj marks an important step after years of arbitrary and unlawful detention, but it does not end the serious concerns surrounding their cases.
On 22 June 2026, India’s Ministry of Home Affairs adopted the 'Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules', granting the Indian government sweeping new powers to police the activities, operation, management and leadership of non-governmental organisations receiving foreign funding.
This year eleven activists completed ISHR’s flagship training, the Human Rights Defender Advocacy Programme, to strengthen their advocacy skills and develop an individual roadmap to push for change in their country.
ISHR and Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance (FIND) delivered a joint statement during a dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, calling for investigations, accountability, reparations to victims' families and non-recurrence in cases of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.
Despite Nepal’s international commitments, human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples continue. The new government has an opportunity to align its laws with international standards, ensure consent for projects affecting Indigenous communities, and protect the right to peaceful protest and the right to defend rights.
In a statement at a panel on climate change and human rights, ISHR and the Institute for Political Economy Sri Lanka highlighted the ‘trap’ in which States could enter if not looking at climate financing with a human rights perspective.
ISHR introduces a new on-line course on advocacy for environmental human rights defenders, a practical, self-paced resource for activists, community leaders, and allies to defend the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment using UN and regional mechanisms.
Ahead of EU Parliament debate, UN experts have warned that China’s new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress risks violating a wide range of human rights affecting Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongols and other peoples, and may create risks of transnational repression.
Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has reunited with his family in Beijing after completing a three-year prison sentence, imposed in violation of international law, on 13 April 2026.
In a joint statement, ISHR and 24 human rights groups urge Chinese authorities to release arbitrarily detained human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng at the end of his sentence and ensure his full freedom.
Ahead of his opening address to the UN Human Rights Council, 26 civil society organisations, including ISHR, are calling on High Commissioner Volker Türk to detail investigations into China’s alleged atrocity crimes.
