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Global Call for Philippine Authorities To Stop the Criminalization of Human Rights Defenders

ESCR-Net - International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights stands in solidarity with Karapatan, - the Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights - and their allies GABRIELA - National Alliance of Women - and the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) in the face of the retaliatory perjury charges brought by the Philippine government against them.

Collective letter to the President of Colombia – Stop the violence against human rights defenders

In a little more than a year, ESCR-Net has sent a second collective letter to the President of Colombia, Iván Duque Márquez, regarding new threats allegedly from the...

WITNESS

Statement: "As content moderators go home, content could go down"

19 March 2020

>> https://blog.witness.org/2020/03/as-content-moderators-go-home-content-could-go...

Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Amnesty International

Statement: "Digital surveillance to fight COVID-19 can only be justified if it respects human rights"

2 April 2020

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Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

Arab Joint List, Adalah turn again to Supreme Court, demanding halt to Shin Bet’s invasive surveillance of citizens in struggle against coronavirus

5 April 2020

>> https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/...

Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

Statement: "COVID-19: Prioritise human rights and protect the most vulnerable"

March 27, 2020

>> https://www.fidh.org/en/issues/human-rights-...

Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Front Line Defenders

Statement: "Defending rights during a pandemic: Impact of Covid-19 on the safety and work of human rights defenders"
17 April 2020

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Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Programa Venezolano de Educación- Acción en Derechos Humanos (PROVEA)

100 ONG venezolanas: Autoridades deben garantizar el trabajo de los actores humanitarios y adoptar medidas para garantizar derechos de poblaciones vulnerables en su respuesta al COVID-19

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World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

Dignity in the time of COVID-19

>> https://www.omct.org/assistance-to-victims/statements/2020/03/d25747/

Human Rights Action

Letter to the UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights

>> http://www.hraction.org/2020/03/25/letter-to-the-un-special-rapporteurs-on-human-rights/?lang=en