Call for volunteers in Guatemala
We need more candidates to initiate a new training process, and we have extended the deadline for applications to July 18. For more details please contact pbivoluntarios@googlemail.com
COLOMBIA: Oil Palms, Right Abuses Hand in Hand in Northwest
As of this week, there is one less human rights defender in the northwestern Colombian region of Bajo Atrato as Jimmy Jansasoy was forced to flee the area.
Nepal PM quits in army chief row
The Maoist Prime Minister of Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, has dramatically announced his resignation in a television address to the nation.
Prachandagate: Critical analysis
Maoist insurgency is back. In reality, it never went away...
Moderate communist elected Nepal's new PM
Nepal's parliament elected a moderate communist leader as the new prime minister on Saturday, hours after two people were killed in an explosion that ripped through a church near the capital.
Reuters video: Maoist Protest in Nepal
May 11 - Thousands of Maoists have clashed with riot police in Kathmandu.
Reuters Video: Nepal church blast
May 23 - A church near the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, is targeted in a deadly bomb attack.
NEPAL: How justice continues to fail as the country transitions, according to the Advocacy Forum
(Hong Kong, 20 May, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission has broadcast an interview with Ms. Mandira Sharma, prominent human rights lawyer and director of Nepalese NGO, Advocacy Forum. In the interview last month, Sharma...
"No peace without human rights defenders" - decision makers pledge to improve protection
The First International Conference on Security and Protection For Human Rights Defenders brought together experienecd human rights defenders from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe, as well as diplomats, decision makers and...