FIVE LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS BY COURTS TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF DEFENDERS IN 2024

In 2024, national, regional, and international courts took action to protect and recognise the rights of human rights defenders offering hope for the future and highlighting the utility of strategic litigation. READ MORE >

A TRIBUTE TO ALISON GRAHAM

We are greatly saddened by the recent death of our ISHR colleague, Dr. Alison Graham. Alison worked at ISHR from 2001 to 2007, initially leading the information programme and producing the ISHR Human Rights Monitor. She understood well how essential access to information is to driving human rights change. Later, Alison ran our intern programme helping a whole generation of young people find their way in Geneva and make their start in the human rights world.

After she left ISHR, Alison went on to write her thesis on the right to social security and worked on a range of projects, primarily with the UN, aimed at challenging exclusion and inequality. Alli was smart, bold and wickedly funny! She was also a deeply caring colleague and friend. Simply put, Alli was wonderful, and her death is a profound loss to all that knew her. She is tremendously missed.

HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER'S STORY: YUTEITA HOYOS RAMOS, FROM MEXICO

Yuteita Hoyos Ramos is an Indigenous woman human rights defender from Mexico. In an interview, she told us how she came to work in defence of the rights of girls, women and Indigenous peoples, and about her aspirations for the future of Mexico. READ MORE >

'OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS FROM MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES'

Our partners at the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) have published a report identifying specific risks for the work of women human rights defenders in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as pathways for pursuing activism. READ THE REPORT >