Protection International launches its 2019 – 2023 Global Strategy
Protection International’s 2019 – 2023 Global Strategy In recent years, we have witnessed a rise in powerful revisionist agendas on international human rights standards and a growth in inequality, discrimination, and a legitimization of oppression against minorities. State authorities are failing in their obligation to protect those who are targeted by powerful non-state actors, which […]
Joint Statement: Human Rights Groups Urge Thai Government to Release Nittaya Muangklang, Women Human Rights Defenders Working on Land Rights Issues
25 May 2019 – Chiang Mai, Thailand The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development (APWLD) and Protection International (PI) strongly object to the recent decision of the Chaiyaphum province Appeals Court to find Nittaya Muangklang guilty of land encroachment and unsanctioned clearing of national park land. The court’s decision upholds the provisions of […]
Protection International is deeply saddened by the loss of our colleagues Ana Paula Hernández and Sally O’neill
Protection International wishes to express its heartfelt condolences to the family members, friends, and colleagues from the Fund for Global Human Rights of both Ana Paula Hernández and Sally O’neill. Their untimely passing from a traffic accident last 7 April, alongside Ana Velásquez and Daniel Tuc, has deeply affected all those who have had the […]
[Guatemala] Statement on the Consultation Process and Threats against Xinka Human Rights Defenders
Guatemala, 28 March de 2019 The below-signed international organizations express our grave concern regarding the consultation process with Xinka authorities and communities. During the last few months, representatives of the Xinka People have denounced, despite the Constitutional Court resolution 4785-2017, that they have not been allowed to fully participate in the process of defining the […]
Collective Protection of Human Rights Defenders ǀ A collective approach to the right to defend human rights.
13/12/2018, [Brussels] Protection International launches its latest publication, Collective Protection of Human Rights Defenders ǀ A Collective Approach to the Right to Defend Human Rights, the flagship item of our global campaign #CommunitiesareHRDs. With the recent 20th anniversary of the UN declaration on Human Rights Defenders, much attention is currently focused on the indispensable work […]
#WHRDsDay | Protection International celebrates the launch of the Women Human Rights Defenders Quilt with Thai women HRDs and Canadian Ambassador to Thailand
20 December 2018, Bangkok – Protection International, together with the Canadian Ambassador to Thailand and 20 Thai women human rights defenders, celebrate today International Women Human Rights Defenders Day by launching the Women Human Rights Defenders Quilt, a craft and artistic project carried out by human rights defenders from Thailand accompanied by Protection International and […]
Protection International and other international NGOs issue stark warning to Bolsonaro on climate change & #HumanRights
30/10/2018 – The policies proposed by Brazil’s new President, Jair Bolsonaro, threaten a human rights and environmental catastrophe with global implications. Brazil is already the deadliest country in the world in which to defend your land, with at least 57 people murdered last year, 25 of them in three massacres. Eighty per cent of these died […]
#ForThoseWhoDiedTrying & #ColombiaSomosComoTu – Protection International presents two exhibitions at the #HRDWorldSummit 2018
01/11/2018 – Protection International presented two exhibitions at the Human Rights Defenders World Summit 2018 in Paris (29-31 October 2018). Two different projects, from two different continents, but both advocating for peace, justice, and the right to defend human rights. WE’RE LIKE YOU The invisible fighting for land and life We’re Like You is an artistic project […]
PI participates in the International Seminar on Human Rights in Paraguay
03-04/10/2018 – Protection International, together with many other organizations working with human rights defenders, is participating in the III International Seminar in Paraguay “Mecanismos de protección para defensoras y defensores de derechos humanos: entre el compromiso y el riesgo” (“Protection mechanisms for human rights defenders: between commitment and risks”) from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. […]
Guatemalan indigenous communities file complaint for dams’ damages
Protection International supports the affected communities of the microregion Ixquisis, together with the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), the International Platform Against Impunity, Front Line Defenders and the Plurinational Ancestral Government of Q’anjob’al, Popti, Chuj and Akateko. The communities have filed a complaint to the Inter-American Development Bank for it to divest from Pojom […]