Judicial harassment
February 4, 2021
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in
The Philippines.
Brief description of the situation:
The Observatory has been informed by Karapatan - the Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights - of the judicial harassment of Karapatan National Council member
Daisy ‘Jack
’ Valencia.
On September 25, 2020, the Regional Trial Court Branch 30 in Tagum, Davao del Norte Province, issued an arrest warrant for Daisy ‘Jackie’ Valencia. However, she was only recently made aware through a reliable source of the murder charges pressed against her. At the time of publication of this Urgent Appeal, Ms. Valencia had not received any formal notice from the Court.
Judicial harassment
February 4, 2021
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in The Philippines.
Brief description of the situation:
The Observatory has been informed by Karapatan - the Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights - of the judicial harassment of Karapatan National Council member
Daisy ‘Jackie’ Valencia.
On September 25, 2020, the Regional Trial Court Branch 30 in Tagum, Davao del Norte Province, issued an arrest warrant for Daisy ‘Jackie’ Valencia. However, she was only recently made aware through a reliable sourceof the murder charges pressed against her. At the time of publication of this Urgent Appeal, Ms. Valencia had not received any formal notice from the Court.
-Paris, February 3, 2021 -
Women who played a key role in organizing and leading peaceful pro-democracy protests in 2020 in Thailand faced frequent human rights violations aimed at delegitimizing their work and credibility and discouraging them from participating in the demonstrations, says a new report released today by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (an FIDH-OMCT partnership).
The report, titled “
Standing tall - Women human rights defenders at the forefront of Thailand’s pro-democracy protests,” is based on interviews conducted with 22 women human rights defenders (WHRD), both youth and adults, who peacefully protected and promoted fundamental human rights and freedoms in connection with the demonstrations.
By Reuters Staff
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Detention, defamation, stigmatization and harassment of charities and rights activists in Venezuela increased 157% between 2019 and 2020, a group of non-governmental organisations said on Tuesday.
“The cases seem to confirm the existence of a state policy of persecution,” said the group of three local and foreign organizations in a report documenting 216 attacks in the first 10 months of 2020, compared with 84 in all of 2019.
Venezuela’s Information Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. President Nicolas Maduro’s government rejects constant accusations of widespread rights abuses, saying it is the victim of a foreign-led smear campaign.
Judicial harassment /
Kazakhstan
January 28, 2021
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in
Kazakhstan.
Description of the situation:
The Observatory has been informed by the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) about the judicial harassment of the KIBHR and the International Legal Initiative (ILI Foundation), two FIDH member organisations working in Kazakhstan, over the alleged violations of financial reporting procedure.
On January 25, 2021, the district office of the Almaty City Department of the State Revenue Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan ruled to fine and suspend the activities of the KIBHR and the ILI Foundation. After inspecting thousands of pages of the organisations reports over several years, the tax authorities drew up multiple protocols