It can take over an hour and a half by car from the guarded entrance of the forest to the village. It takes four hours walk to get a cell-phone recharged. In…
Egypt’s liberal leaning Free Egyptians Party declared its support for the calls and demands by women’s rights organizations and NGOs in the country, which have…
Lithuania's president has warned Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych that his government needs to guarantee the rights of all opposition prisoners or risk…
Oksana Shachko, a girl with a doll-like face, is supposed to go to prison for five years. Shachko is a Ukrainian women's rights activist from FEMEN, and her…
On 7 May, shots were fired into the office of a women’s rights organization in Bogota, Colombia. This follows a series of attacks and intimidation against…
By Farah Mawani: "I felt a kinship with Masoud Shafii (Sarah, Shane and Josh's lawyer in Iran) from the start, because I could sense across continents and…
The two representatives of Gabriela Women’s Party accompanied a minor who alleged that she was raped by Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija vice mayor Romeo R. Borja as…
"Mr. Masoud Shafii did everything in his power to defend Josh's, Shane's and my innocence within the parameters of Iranian law. When his efforts were stymied,…
Marcela Turati is a journalist for the magazine Proceso, where she has been covering the social effects of violence related to drug trafficking in Mexico,…
The body of Martínez was found in her home on Saturday evening in Xalapa, the capital of the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, according to news reports. She had…
A Chinese activist who helped "barefoot lawyer" Chen Guangcheng escape his lengthy house arrest in the dead of night has herself been detained, a US rights…
Saturday will be the 494th day of Agnes Géreb's house arrest in Budapest. For the past 16 months, the midwife and internationally recognised home-birth expert…