Statement on the Assassination of Dilma Ferreira Silva, leader of Brazil’s Movement of Dam-Affected Peoples (MAB) In the face of the brutal crime committed on March 22nd against a coordinator of the...

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...

Protection International and the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) present their new publication: Es Tiempo Ya, políticas publicas eficaces para el derecho a defender los derechos...

Today, Olban Milla of COPINH community radio stations was arbitrarily arrested and detained at the Police station of La Esperenza, Honduras. He was on his way with other members of the Lenca...

The IACHR has issued a press release welcoming the laws and measures approved by the US and several states of Latin America while encouraging them to continue their efforts to ensure the human rights...

  " [...] Today, we say that Berta hasn't died. The murderers were wrong. She lives." Bertha Zúñiga A demonstration was held on April 20th in front of the Honduran embassy in Brussels in order to...

This week two human rights and environmental defenders from COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras) will be visiting Brussels. Afterwards the Indigenous Lenca...

According to COPINH, Berta did not receive the protection the CIDH had asked for, from the government side. Therefore, Protection International calls the international community to demand the...

On September 29th, it will be launched during the 30th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva the report on the situation of human rights defenders in Mexico, entitled...

NGOs send an open letter to National Congress with concerns about draft Law to protect Human Rights Defenders in Honduras A new draft law to protect Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Social...