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April 29, 2024

Environment Defenders Face New Wave of Oppression

We all have an interest in supporting people who are pressing governments to meet their obligations on climate change, whether they are protesting in the street, bringing cases to court, or even carrying out civil disobedience.
Protesters rally in support of climate activist Deanna "Violet" Coco, who was sentenced to jail for helping to block the Sydney Harbour Bridge, outside the Downing Centre court building in Sydney, Australia, December 13, 2022.
April 29, 2024

Escalating Concerns Over the Lives of Minors Threatened With Death in Saudi Arabia

The undersigned organizations express their grave concern for the lives of minor defendants particularly the two young men, Yousif Al-Manasif and Ali Al-Mubaiouq, who are at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia following confirmed information that the Specialized Criminal Court of Appeal (SCCA) has upheld their death sentences.
April 29, 2024

South Sudan: ‘Disappeared’ Critic Resurfaces

The reappearance in a South Sudan court of a former refugee who had been forcibly disappeared more than a year ago points up the urgent need to reform the National Security Service (NSS).
Morris Mabior Awikjok Bak
April 29, 2024

UAE: Unfair Trial of Rights Defenders

Emirati authorities are holding an unfair mass trial that has raised serious due process concerns. The trial includes many defendants held in prolonged solitary confinement, which may amount to torture.
A man in a white gutra
April 27, 2024

Lebanon: Ministerial Decision Advances Justice

Lebanon’s Council of Ministers issued a decision on April 26, 2024, instructing the Foreign Affairs Ministry to file a declaration with the International Criminal Court (ICC) registrar accepting the court’s jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute crimes within the court’s jurisdiction on Lebanese territory since October 7, 2023.
The car that three girls and their grandmother were killed in during an Israeli airstrike in the outskirts of the southern town of Aynata, Lebanon, November 6, 2023.
April 26, 2024

US Universities Should Respect Right to Protest

Pro-Palestine university campus protests have spread across the United States, with harsh crackdowns at some institutions, including Columbia University, the University of Texas, and Emory University.
Pro-Palestinian student protesters at a demonstration at Columbia University on the third day of "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" in New York, US, April 19, 2024.
April 26, 2024

Joint Statement – Civil Society Groups Call On US Government to Block Unconditioned Military Assistance to Israel

We, the undersigned organizations, are dismayed that Congress, in an emergency supplemental bill, appropriated an unprecedented $14.1 billion in military assistance to Israel without attaching any human rights and civilian protection conditions, despite the overwhelming evidence of the Israeli government’s violations of international and U.S. law over the past six months.
A view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 2020.