Bahrain: Injured human rights defenders denied access to medical treatment
Got a huge shock when I heard our friend Abdulhadi had been shot in Bahrain, but I just spoke with him and he insisted he wasn't hurt seriously, just a couple of birdshot pellets fired from some...
View ArticleBahrain: Injured human rights defenders denied access to medical treatment
Got a huge shock when I heard our friend Abdulhadi had been shot in Bahrain, but I just spoke with him and he insisted he wasn't hurt seriously, just a couple of birdshot pellets fired from some...
View ArticleBrussels: Igor Kalyapin highlights lack of effective investigation of...
On Tuesday 10 May 2011 afternoon, Igor Kalyapin met representatives of EU Member States in the context of the COHOM Task force on HRDs, just before the formal COHOM meeting. COHOM is the Council...
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Belarus: Joint statement by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton and US...
EU High Representative Catherine Ashton and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a joint statement today on concerns about human rights in Belarus on the anniversary of the 19 December...
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Brussels: Human Rights Defenders and Development Agencies: How to build...
flag_3.jpg15-16 October 2007 Front Line Defenders, with the support of the European Commission and of the King Baudouin Foundation, and with the assistance of ECDPM, hosted an international conference...
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Bahrain: Joint letter Sent To High Representative Catherine Ashton ahead of...
A joint letter has been sent to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton ahead of a European Union (EU) – Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...
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Azerbaijan: High Representative Catherine Ashton and Commissioner Štefan Füle...
On 6 June 2013, the spokespersons of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Štefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European...
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Bahrain: EU Should Call for the release of Human Rights Defenders and...
The EU should use its ministerial meeting with the Gulf Cooperation Council, due to take place on 30 June 2013, to call for the release of those “currently detained and imprisoned for peacefully...
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Brussels: Launch of Front Line Defenders' handbook on how human rights...
On 13 November 2013, at the official launch of its protection handbook "The European Union: What it can do, Getting it to take action," Front Line Defenders held a debate in the European Parliament...
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UN, EU and OSCE condemn escalating violence in Ukraine
At least two people have died amid clashes between police and protesters on the streets of Ukraine's capital Kiev.A raft of new repressive legislation that was signed by President Viktor Yanukovych on...
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Trapped Between Diplomacy and Reality
As Xi Jinping makes the first ever visit of a Chinese President to EU institutions today, Front Line Defenders Executive Director Mary Lawlor argues that he must be challenged on China's treatment of...
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European Union-Kyrgyz Republic Human Rights Dialogue
The European Union and the Kyrgyz Republic held the fifth round of their Human Rights Dialogue in Bishkek on 8 April 2014. While representatives of the EU praised several advancements in human rights...
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Joint statement on the EU conclusions on the 10th anniversary of the...
The undersigned organisations working with and for human rights defenders (HRDs) welcome the adoption by the Council of the European Union (EU) of the 23 June 2014 Conclusions on the 10th Anniversary...
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Call for new European Union Foreign Policy Chief
As the EU goes through the process of seeking a new High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN) has created their own job specification...
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MEPs call for the immediate release of Maryam Al-Khawaja, Abdulhadi...
A group of MEPs has called for the release of Bahraini human rights defender, Maryam al-Khawaja, who is currently in detention in Manama on trumped-up charges.maryam_alkhawaja_0.pngread more
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Azerbaijan/EU: Use Official Visit to Free Activists No More Business as Usual...
stavros_lambrinidis.jpg(Brussels, February 23, 2015) – The European Union special representative for human rights should use his visit to Azerbaijan beginning February 23, 2015, to insist that the...
View ArticleBahrain: Injured human rights defenders denied access to medical treatment
Got a huge shock when I heard our friend Abdulhadi had been shot in Bahrain, but I just spoke with him and he insisted he wasn't hurt seriously, just a couple of birdshot pellets fired from some...
View ArticleBrussels: Igor Kalyapin highlights lack of effective investigation of...
On Tuesday 10 May 2011 afternoon, Igor Kalyapin met representatives of EU Member States in the context of the COHOM Task force on HRDs, just before the formal COHOM meeting. COHOM is the Council...
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Belarus: Joint statement by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton and US...
EU High Representative Catherine Ashton and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a joint statement today on concerns about human rights in Belarus on the anniversary of the 19 December...
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Brussels: Human Rights Defenders and Development Agencies: How to build...
flag_3.jpg15-16 October 2007 Front Line Defenders, with the support of the European Commission and of the King Baudouin Foundation, and with the assistance of ECDPM, hosted an international conference...
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