Twenty-two international organizations deplore the affirmed conviction (on appeal) of Colombian human rights defender David Ravelo Crespo
On 10 December, international Human Rights Day, twenty-two international organizations and networks deplored the conviction and imprisonment of David Crespo and urged the Colombia government to take appropriate measures to guarantee the fundamental rights of David Ravelo and to address the irregularities that have been denounced since his imprisonment so that the trial is compliant with Colombian law and international standards of due process.
Tlachinollan Human Rights Center: Judicial processes against those presumed guilty of the serious violations committed against Inés Fernández and Valentina Rosendo have begun
Mexico D.F., 9 January 2014.
Civil Society Organizations: On International Human Rights Day, civil society organizations urge the Mexican State to protect human rigths defenders and journalists
Mexico D.F. 9 December 2013. Several civil society organizations urge the Mexican government to protect human rights defenders and journalists. They highlight the context of repeated attacks and acts of aggression against defenders and journalists and remind the commitments made by the Interior Ministry on the matter.
See below the press release issued by the organizations (in Spanish):
Video: Zoë Wanamaker presents PBI at The Funding Network Festive Funding event
The actress Zoë Wanamaker brilliantly pitched PBI UK's new environmental and land rights defenders project.
PBI Mexico: New video featuring Alma Garcia, from the Fray Juan de Larios Diocese Center for Human Rights, aboout disappearances in Coahuila
Mexico D.F., 14 November 2013. Watch the video featuring Alma García, from the Fray Juan de Larios Diocese Center for Human Rights, about disappearances in Coahuila. Fray Juan de Larios supports the families organized at the United Forces for Our Disappeared in Coahuila (FUUNDEC).
PBI Mexico: New video featuring Alma Garcia, from the Fray Juan de Larios Diocese Center for Human Rights, aboout disappearances in Coahuila
Mexico D.F., 14 November 2013. Watch the video featuring Alma García, from the Fray Juan de Larios Diocese Center for Human Rights, about disappearances in Coahuila. Fray Juan de Larios supports the families organized at the United Forces for Our Disappeared in Coahuila (FUUNDEC).
PBI Mexico: PBI interviews Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, Head of the Unit for the Defense of Human Rights at the Interior Ministry
Mexico D.F., 1 November 2013. PBI interviewed Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, Head of the Unit for the Defense of Human Rights at the Interior Ministry (SEGOB) and Executive Coordinator of the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists.
Enabling environments: PBI’s submissions to UN rapporteur on HRDs
Margaret Sekaggya
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders