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Acquittal of human rights defenders in the Philippines

ESCR-Net - International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights celebrates the acquittal of members of Karapatan, - the Alliance for the Advancement of...

Joint statement: Standing in solidarity with Filipino human rights defenders

We, the undersigned organisations, express our utmost concern over the ongoing criminalization of ten human rights defenders and members of Karapatan, GABRIELA and the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) in retaliation for their legitimate human rights work.

Elisa Tita...

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...

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

Front Line Defenders

Crisis: COVID-19 & Impact on Human Rights Defenders:
>> https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/campaign/covid-19-attacks-hrds-time-pandemic

Physical, emotional and digital...

Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF)

Latinoamérica y COVID-19: ¿Cómo queda la justicia? | Ciclo de conversaciones virtuales sobre la respuesta de los sistemas de justicia frente a la emergencia

>> http://dplf.org/es/event/latinoamerica-...

Amnesty International, Witness and others

Joint civil society statement: States use of digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights

>> https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/POL3020812020ENGLISH.pdf