Between 9 and 11 July 2024, ISHR together with Colombian partners Asosciaciación Minga, the Colombian Commission of Jurists and the Somos Defensores Program organised a cross regional discussion on protection mechanisms for human rights defenders.
National and international human rights organisations express concern regarding a national law on human rights defenders that recently entered into force, due to broad and restrictive provisions that could limit the work and rights of human rights defenders.
During the third Universal Periodic Review of Mongolia, the Human Rights Forum of Mongolia and ISHR call on the Government to ensure the draft human rights defenders law complies with international law.
The Human Rights Council should support investigations and accountability for widespread human rights violations - including systematic and targeted attacks and reprisals against human rights defenders - in China, Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, ISHR said today. Meanwhile, it is imperative that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Secretary General speak out and develop policies to provide protection and solidarity to defenders, their families and their communities.
ISHR launches a report examining existing legal frameworks on the protection of human rights defenders in seven countries in Asia and calls for further legislative developments to protect their work.
ISHR launches a report examining existing legal frameworks on the protection of human rights defenders in seven countries in Asia and calls for further legislative developments to protect their work.
Across 2019 and 2020 ISHR will work in Mongolia, Nepal and the Philippines on projects towards the recognition and protection of the rights of human rights defenders in national law.
Otgonbaatar Tsedendemberel, co-founder of the LGBT Center of Mongolia, has been a pivotal figure in advancing LGBTI rights through education, advocacy, and strategic use of UN mechanisms to influence government policy.
Sukhgerel Dugersuren champions corporate accountability in Mongolia, highlighting the urgent need for legal reforms to protect the environment and communities from the mining industry's impacts, while facing challenges against human rights defenders.
