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Dublin: Front Line condemns abject failure of international community to protect human rights defenders in Congoposted on: 2010/06/08

In an Opinion Piece published in today's Irish Times Front Line's Deputy Director Andrew Anderson analyses how the failure of the international community to respond to the security needs of human rights defenders has contributed to the climate of impunity in DRC.

Dublin: Front Line condemns abject failure of international community to protect human rights defenders in Congoposted on: 2010/06/08

In an Opinion Piece published in today's Irish Times Front Line's Deputy Director Andrew Anderson analyses how the failure of the international community to respond to the security needs of human rights defenders has contributed to the climate of impunity in DRC.

Abject failure of international community to protect human rights defenders in Congo

The killing this week of Floribert Chebeya, one of Congo's most respected and longstanding human rights defenders, is not only a devastating loss for his family, many friends, and the human rights movement in Congo and internationally. It is also bloody confirmation of the abject failure of the international community to protect human rights defenders in Congo.

Uzbekistan: Call for amnesty for human rights defender Mr Maksim Popov, sentenced to seven years in prison in 2009posted on: 2010/05/10

On 9 June 2009, human rights defender Mr Maksim Popov was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. Maksim Popov is a psychologist and Executive Director of Izis, a non-governmental organisation conducting programs such as individual and group counselling, provision of sterile needles, and training on HIV/AIDS in Uzbekistan.

Mexico: Abduction, attack and death threats against wife of human rights defender Adolfo Guzmán Ordazposted on: 2010/03/02

Margarita Guadalupe Martínez Martínez, the wife of human rights defender Adolfo Guzmán Ordaz, was violently attacked and received death threats on 26 February 2010, less than 35 hours before the reconstruction of events in relation to a raid on their home in Comitán de Domínguez, Chiapas, in November 2009.