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Jiang Tianyong

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  • China
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Jiang Tianyong is a prominent human rights lawyer and legal rights activist from China. He has been working at the grassroots level to defend land and housing rights, promote the rights of vulnerable social groups and expose the root causes of systemic rights abuses.

He defended high-profile cases in China, including clients with HIV, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan protesters and victims of the 2008 milk scandal.

Despite being arbitrarily disbarred by the government in 2009, Jiang has tirelessly continued his valuable human rights work to improve the situation in China. He has persisted in denouncing human rights violations in his country and supported numerous well-known human rights defenders unlawfully detained.

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Comité de Familiares de Víctimas del Caracazo, Observatorio Venezolano de Conflictividad Social, Centro de Justicia y Paz, Control Ciudadano and it director Carlos Correa

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  • Venezuela
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Comité de Familiares de Víctimas del Caracazo (COFAVIC), Observatorio Venezolano de Conflictividad Social (OVCS), Centro de Justicia y Paz (CEPAZ), Control Ciudadano and Espacio Público are five non-governmental organisations working for the promotion of human rights in Venezuela.

The organisations have a history of engaging with UN human rights bodies and mechanisms, a crucial effort given the multidimensional crisis that Venezuela is experiencing, with whom they have denounced abuses in the country, including with the Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela (FFM) established by the Human Rights Council in 2019. The FFM’s mandate includes the investigation of gross human rights violations in the country since 2014 and relies greatly on valuable information communicated by civil society groups such as those mentioned above.

All five NGOs have been stigmatised and discredited publicly and on social media by high-ranking State officials for their collaboration with the United Nations, including and specifically naming the directors of Control Ciudadano, Rocío San Miguel, and Espacio Público, Carlos Correa.

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Human Rights Center ‘Viasna’

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  • Belarus
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The Human Right Center ‘Viasna’ is a non-governmental organisation actively working for the development of civil society and the promotion of human rights in Belarus, also providing legal aid to people in defending their rights and public interests.

Viasna has a long-standing history of cooperation with the United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms, which has increased amid the ongoing crackdown on human rights defenders and organisations in Belarus.

Due to its engagement with the UN, Viasna has been subjected to continuous acts of harassment and intimidation at the hands of the government, including the raiding of their offices and the arbitrary detention of its members.

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Vanessa Mendoza Cortés

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  • Andorra
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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.

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Hong Kong civil society

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  • China
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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.

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Maryam al-Balushi and Amina al-Abduli

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  • United Arab Emirates
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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.

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Irfan Mehraj and Khurram Parvez

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  • India
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Khurram Parvez and Irfan Mehraj are two Kashmiri human rights defenders. They have conducted ground-breaking and extensive human rights documentation in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, including through their work within the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) - Khurram as founder and programme coordinator, and Irfan as a researcher.

Both activists have been internationally recognised for their work. Khurram is the Chairperson of the Asian Federation against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), Deputy General Secretary of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and a laureate of the 2023 Martin Ennals Award.

Irfan is a well-regarded independent journalist with frequent contributions to Kashmiri, Indian and international news outlets. He is the founder of Wande Magazine and is an editor at TwoCircles.net.

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Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

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  • Bahrain
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Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja is a Bahraini-Danish advocate known for his unwavering commitment to freedom and democracy. An outspoken human rights defender he serves as a source of inspiration for activists in Bahrain and globally. Abdulhadi has protested Bahrain’s unlawful detention and torture of several civilians since he was a student. He received political asylum in Denmark with his family where he continued his advocacy work, documenting human rights violations in Bahrain. He became the first civil society representative to speak at the first Universal Periodic Review of Bahrain in 2008. He is the co-founder of both the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, as well as the laureate of the 2022 Martin Ennals Award.

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Pham Doan Trang

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  • Vietnam
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Pham Doan Trang is an author, blogger, journalist and pro-democracy activist from Viet Nam. She is a well-known advocate for human rights and has written on a wide range of human rights topics, including LGBTQI+ rights, women’s rights, environmental issues and on the suppression of activists.

She is considered among the most influential and respected human rights defenders in Viet Nam today. She has always been a major source of inspiration and mentorship for Vietnamese civil society and the next generation of human rights defenders.

Trang received the Reporters Without Borders 2019 Press Freedom Prize for Impact and was the Laureate of a Martin Ennals Award in 2022.

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Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy

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  • Egypt
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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.

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Chair of National Commission for Human Rights of Pakistan

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Pakistan
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  • UN Treaty Bodies: CAT
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Epimack Kwokwo

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Rwanda
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Human Rights Council: UPR
Location of mentioned reprisals
border between Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda; Kigali
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Robert Mugabe

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Rwanda
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  • UN Human Rights Council: UPR
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Four journalists

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Engagement with UN body
  • Other
  • UN Peace Operation / Political mission
Location of mentioned reprisals
Biakato
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Detainees at Ablangandan gendarmerie station and Cotonou prison

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2019
From Country
  • Benin
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Treaty Bodies: SPT
Location of mentioned reprisals
Agblangandan; Cotonou
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Persons deprived of liberty in Mocoví and San Pedro prisons

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2019
From Country
  • Bolivia
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Treaty Bodies: SPT
Location of mentioned reprisals
Mocoví and San Pedro prisons
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Norwegian People’s Aid

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Israel
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
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Survivors of airstrikes targeting Daman building complex

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  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Libya
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  • UN Peace Operation / Political mission
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Li Xiaoling

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2019
From Country
  • China
Engagement with UN body
  • Unclear
Location of mentioned reprisals
Zhuhai City
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25 human rights defenders and other members of civil society

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  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Cambodia
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Country Team
Location of mentioned reprisals
Kampong Thom Province
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Relatives of convicted IRPT members

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Tajikistan
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  • UN Country Team
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Nine human rights defenders

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Peace Operation / Political mission
Location of mentioned reprisals
Masisi territory of North Kivu
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Alma Delia Reyna

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Mexico
Engagement with UN body
  • OHCHR: OHCHR Field office
Location of mentioned reprisals
Tamaulipas
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Preemptive statement made to ensure no reprisals will occur

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  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Myanmar (Burma)
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Group of 15 people who engaged with HRC

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  • SG Report 2011
From Country
  • Malawi
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  • UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
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Victims and witnesses

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Eritrea
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Special Procedures: country
  • UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
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Members of the Cubalex Legal Information Center

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  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Cuba
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  • UN Human Rights Council: UPR
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Azza Soliman

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Egypt
Engagement with UN body
  • Unclear
Location of mentioned reprisals
Cairo
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Participants of UN-organized activities

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • South Sudan
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  • Unclear
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Henrique Capriles

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Venezuela
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  • UN (Dep.) High Commissioner on Human Rights
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