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- Date modified
- Case status
- Location of case in SG report
- Year of the report
- Type of record
- Gender
- Was the victim a civil servant, member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- Belongs to Region
- Take action?
- ISHR campaign case
- Active campaign?
Maryam al-Balushi and Amina al-Abduli
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- From country
- Story behind
Amina Al-Abdouli is 42 years old. She is a mother of five, three girls and two boys who were all under 18 at the time of her arrest. She used to work as a school teacher She was advocating for the Arab Spring and sympathised especially with the Syrian uprising.
Maryam Al Balushi, 27 years old, was a student at the College of Technology.
- Date modified
- Oct 16, 2023
Anexa Alfred Cunningham
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- From country
- Story behind
Anexa Alfred Cunningham is a brave Miskitu Indigenous leader, woman human rights defender, lawyer and expert on Indigenous peoples rights from Nicaragua.
She defends the ancestral land and natural resources of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. She has also worked with Indigenous and Afro-descendants communities in order to investigate the many abuses they suffer and denounce them to the United Nations. These Peoples face attacks by armed groups who seek to take away their ancestral territory with the State’s approval. Their situation has deteriorated since the still unfolding 2018 human rights crisis. In 2022, 90 attacks and at least 32 killings were documented in the Northern Caribbean Coast according to local rights groups. This year, on 11 March, the Wilu community was attacked by an armed group. Houses were burned and five Mayagna indigenous people were killed causing the forced displacement of the rest of the community. Anexa has spoken out against these systemic violence as she considers it amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity.
- Date modified
- Oct 16, 2023
Hong Kong civil society
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- From country
- Story behind
Until 2020, civil society in Hong Kong was vibrant. The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), for example, was established in 2002 with the aim of giving a platform to different organisations to promote the development of human rights in Hong Kong. The CHRF was responsible for organising the largest peaceful protests in Hong Kong’s history, notably protests against the National Security Law in 2003 with half a million Hong Kongers taking to the streets, as well as the one and two million person-strong anti-extradition law protests on 9 and 16 June 2019 respectively.
Human rights organisations in Hong Kong had engaged consistently and constructively with the UN, and regularly contributed to the work of the UN Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures. Forty-five civil society groups organised themselves into a strong coalition for policy advocacy and engagement with the Hong Kong government linked to the 2018 Universal Periodic Review, while UN expert recommendations and comments on Hong Kong were widely shared, and often addressed in substantive meetings of the Legislative Council, Hong Kong’s elected legislature. Many saw the UN as a venue of justice, as well as a source of authoritative guidance on issues ranging from police violence to abuses against migrant domestic workers.
This engagement came to a screeching halt after the imposition by Beijing of the National Security Law for Hong Kong (NSL), which entered into force on 1 July 2020.
- Date modified
- Oct 16, 2023
Kadar Abdi Ibrahim
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- From country
- Story behind
Kadar Abdi Ibrahim is a human rights defender and journalist from Djibouti. For 20 years, Kadar was a high school math teacher and then a Professor and Researcher at the University of Djibouti. He was dismissed due to his human rights work.
From 2015, Kadar was the co-director and chief editor of L’Aurore, Djibouti’s only privately-owned media outlet. In 2016, the newspaper was banned following the publication of a story on one of the victims of the Buldhuqo massacre, crackdown by Djibouti security forces on a religious celebration and a meeting of the opposition on 21 December 2015 that left at least 27 people dead. Kadar is also the president of the political party Movement for Democracy and Freedom (MoDEL) since December 2021. Over the years, Kadar has been arrested several times by the police in an attempt to silence him.
- Date modified
- Oct 16, 2023
Vanessa Mendoza Cortés
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- From country
- Story behind
Vanessa Mendoza Cortés is a psychologist and the president of Associació Stop Violències Andorra, which focuses on gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive rights, and advocates for safe and legal abortion in Andorra. Andorra enforces a total ban on abortions.
Associació Stop Violències Andorra supports pregnant women and girls to access abortions abroad and speaks out to demand access to safe and legal abortion in Andorra. Vanessa Mendoza Cortés is the main spokesperson for the organisation.
- Date modified
- Oct 16, 2023
Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy
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- From country
- Story behind
Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy is a human rights defender and lawyer working on the issue of enforced disappearances. He is a co-founder and the coordinator of the Association of the Families of the Disappeared in Egypt.
The network focuses on assisting families in locating and investigating the fate of forcibly or involuntarily disappeared loved ones. Metwally Hegazy founded the organisaton following the disappearance of his own son in July 2013, whose whereabouts remain unknown.
In September 2017, while on his way to Geneva at the invitation of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, he was disappeared for two days, and was subsequently arbitrarily detained. Five years later, he is still in detention.
- Date modified
- Oct 16, 2023
General situation addressed
Abdelrahman Mohamed Al-Gasim
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- International Criminal Court
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
- Date modified
- Oct 4, 2023
Preemptive statement made to ensure no reprisals will occur
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- OHCHR: OHCHR Field office
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
- UN Special Procedures: UN Special Procedures - General
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
General situation addressed
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
- UN Human Rights Council: UPR
- UN Special Procedures: UN Special Procedures - General
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Windel Bolinget
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Elisa Tita Lubi
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Indigenous peoples’ representatives and human rights defenders advocating for the rights of indigenous peoples in the Philippines
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Jeanette Ribaya-Cawiding
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Arnold Evangelista
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Erlindo Baes
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Joanna Cariño
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Beverly Longid
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Joan Carling
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Jose Molintas
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Past and current human rights defenders of the Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Zara Alvarez
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
Sherwin de Vera
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023
A number of individuals listed as 'de facto terrorists' who have been long-standing partners of the United Nations
- Relevant SG report
- From Country
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
- Date modified
- Sep 30, 2023