Aug 07, 2017

Brazil: Indigenous Group Stops Massive Dam Project in Brazil

Photo Courtesy of Internationalrivers.org Indigenous activists managed to stop a massive dam project after a group of 200 Munduku men, women and children had occupied the construction site for four days. They decided to occupy the construction site in order to halt the construction as previous protests and outreach had failed to stop the project. The activists also wanted to ensure with their protest...

Aug 07, 2017

Brazil: Indigenous Group Stops Massive Dam Project...

Photo Courtesy of Internationalrivers.org Indigenous activists managed to stop a massive dam project after a group of 200 Munduku men, women and children had occupied the construction site for four days....

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Aug 04, 2017

Biram Dah Abeid Injured during Protests in No...

  On 3 August 2017, as he was taking part in protests against President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's reforms project in Nouakchott, Mauritania, antislavery activist Biram Dah Abeid was injured and transported...

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Aug 04, 2017

Oromo: Ethiopia Lifts State of Emergency After...

Photo Courtesy of REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri On 4 August 2017, the Ethiopian Parliament decided to end a state of emergency imposed in October 2016 following months of peaceful protests. The protests began...

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Aug 04, 2017

Khmer Krom: Activist Monk Dav Tep Resumes His...

Photo Courtesy of Khmer Times On 2 August 2017, former Kampuchea Krom Buddhist monk Dav Tep, who was convicted for his alleged drug abuse and death threats on grounds of fabricated evidence, was released...

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Aug 04, 2017

Iranian Kurdistan: Number of Kurdish Porters Killed...

Photo Courtesy of NRT According to Iranian-Kurdistan based human rights advocacy agency Hangaw, in 2017 almost twice as many Kurdish “kolbars” (porters) have been killed or wounded as in 2016...

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Aug 04, 2017

Amnesty International Report Calls Out Repression...

On 2 August 2017, Amnesty International released a report denouncing the crackdown on human rights defenders in Iran. The report entitled, “Iran: Caught in A Web of Repression: Iran’s Human...

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Aug 03, 2017

Talysh: Prominent Journalists and Human Rights...

Photo Courtesy of Meydan.tv Two months ago, renowned Talysh journalist Hilal Mammadov was taken into custody by the Azerbaijani police officer for the second time. While the official reasons for...

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Aug 03, 2017

West Papua: Students Rally for West Papuan Independence...

Photo Courtesy of Jakarta Post On Wednesday 2 August 2017, 30 West Papuan Students from the Papua Student Alliance (AMP) gathered near the US Consular Agency office in Bali to claim West Papua’s...

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