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This December, the International Service for Human Rights is fundraising to support defenders around the world with valuable skills and resources to achieve meaningful change.
Across different cultures, communities, and countries, we all want the same thing: to be able to live freely, with justice and dignity for ourselves and our loved ones. We strive for peace and respect, and to live in fair environments that encourage us to be the best versions of ourselves. At our core, ISHR works tirelessly with human rights defenders across the globe to make this a reality for all.
We admire and recognise the importance of the work activists do to protect and promote environmental justice, gender equality, and freedom from discrimination among other issues they take on in pursuit of positive transformation.
This is why we remain committed to fighting for safe, enabling environments for human rights defenders to work in, because we understand that they are not just activists, organisation founders, feminists, lawyers, and unionists – they are also parents, significant others, and beloved family members that should not fear for their or their loved ones’ safety.
We’re able to carry out our efforts with defenders around the world thanks to the unwavering support of human rights allies like you! Will you help us amplify defenders’ voices and make the bright future they envision for all of us a reality?
Download as PDFThis holiday season, we believe that donations to ISHR are a great way to give back to the international community. We are ready to continue making effective change for human rights in 2023. Here are just three examples of what we were able to achieve together in 2022:
In addition to this work, ISHR effectively trains defenders in developing and expanding their international advocacy skills and networks to leverage them for community-wide change. Apart from building their capacities as defenders through the online component of our Human Rights Defender Advocacy Programme (HRDAP), the in-person component of the Programme in Geneva is vital in giving participants access to influential networks and human rights mechanisms that can be used in their respective advocacy roadmaps. Read more about the achievements of HRDAP alumni here. To learn more about the 2023 edition of HRDAP, click here!
Your donation to ISHR will allow us to train even more defenders from all around the world and keep our educational tools up-to-date to not only support their on the ground work in holding perpetrators accountable for human rights abuses, but also to keep promoting equality and peace for their communities by using international law and the United Nations.
Big or small, your contribution will help us to keep campaigning in support of defenders and organisations so that the world’s human rights mechanisms and leaders listen and act. Please join us: make a donation, spread the word, and help us to deliver change. Thank you!
Established in 2012, Giving Tuesday is celebrated as an opportunity to encourage acts of good. The global generosity movement has grown over the past decade and continues to inspire people worldwide to positively transform their communities with collaboration and giving.
“GivingTuesday inspires people all around the world to embrace their power to drive progress around the causes they care about, not just on one day but throughout the year,” said Asha Curran, GivingTuesday’s CEO, and co-founder. “With country and community leaders, millions of organisations, and countless givers of all kinds, GivingTuesday is creating a shared space where we can see the radical implications of a more generous world.”
This year, we hope you join us in celebrating Giving Tuesday by contributing to the causes you care about most and make real change in the world.
On Tuesday 16 April 2024, ISHR delivered to both Geneva’s Administrative Council and its legislative counterpart, the Municipal Council, physical copies of the more than 1000 signatures collected in support of a memorial honouring Chinese human rights defender Cao Shunli.
The 79th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights will be held in Banjul, The Gambia, from 14 May to 3 June 2024. The session will be preceded by the NGO Forum, which will be held in hybrid format from the 11-13 May 2024.
13 April 2024 marked one year since the Chinese authorities arbitrarily detained prominent human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife, woman defender Xu Yan. As their health steadily deteriorates, 30 rights groups and the European Union have renewed their call for their prompt release.
