FIDH News
Joint Open Letter pre-August 14 To International NGO’s, Media, Ally Governments and the UN
In the past few weeks, the human rights situation in Bahrain has rapidly deteriorated ahead of planned mass protests on August 14th. With many of the country’s most prominent Human Rights Defenders behind bars, local […]
Thursday 15 August 2013Special dossier 9/11 – Antiterrorism and human rights: ten years of non-compatibility ?
Major trauma and worldwide geopolitical turmoil, 9/11 was also the beginning of a downward spiral in rights and freedoms. Many countries, including the democratic ones, starting with the United States and the United Kingdom […]
Friday 21 June 2013Bahrain: Concern over Human Rights Defenders Prosecuted and Sentenced to Prison
Geneva-Manama-Paris, 21 June 2013. In Bahrain, human rights defenders are being harassed, arbitrarily detained for months and ill-treated or tortured for their human rights work. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Observatory for […]
Friday 21 June 20135th World Congress Against Death Penalty
On the occasion of the 5th World Congress Against Death Penalty (WCDP), that is taking place in Madrid from 12 to 15 June 2013 and in which FIDH and 12 of its member organisations (from […]
Wednesday 12 June 2013
