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Turkish academic jailed for signing peace petition

In the coming days, Professor Zübeyde Füsun Üstel, will be sent to prison in Turkey. Her crime is signing a petition denouncing Turkish government’s violation of human rights in the Kurdish-populated regions of Turkey. Human rights organisation Civil Rights Defenders call for her immediate release, saying that a call for respecting human rights and peace is not a crime.In her statement to Civil Rights Defenders, Professor Zübeyde Füsun Üstel commented on her sentence: “As an academic, as an intellectual, and as a citizen, I joined my colleagues to call for lasting and fair peace in my

Hungarian lawyer awarded Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award

The human rights group Civil Rights Defenders has awarded the Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award to the Hungarian lawyer Márta Pardavi. As an outspoken critic against the policies of the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and his allies, she is often smeared and harassed. The award is a recognition of her work of many years, fighting against the attempts to systematically dismantle democracy, the normalisation of xenophobia and hate crimes.The state of democracy in Hungary has been under strong pressure and the country is among those whose democratic status is on the decline,

App against gender-based violence wins Innovation Challenge 2019

This years Civil Rights Defenders Innovation Challenge, an annual human rights focused technology award, rewards a team of lawyers and journalists. The winning proposal aims to create a game intended to raise the issue of gender-based violence. Gender-based violence is not criminalised in certain countries, something that Civil Rights Defenders hopes this game will highlight the issue and be a new way to start conversations gender-based violence.The winners’ previous endeavours in gamification have already been very successful when covering current social topics. In their earlier games they

HISTORIC COURT RULING: SWEDISH STATE GUILTY OF ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION

SWEDISH STATE GUILTY OF ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION ACCORDING TO RULING IN STOCKHOLM DISTRICT COURT. SWEDISH HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATION CIVIL RIGHTS DEFENDERS WINS CASE HOLDING THE STATE ACCOUNTABLE FOR  POLICE REGISTER OF SWEDISH ROMA CITIZENS.“The court ruling is not only a victory for the eleven individuals we acted as legal representatives for, and for the thousands of other Roma in the police’s ethnic register, it is also a victory for all Swedish people who are entitled to have their human rights protected through Swedish legislation”, says Robert Hårdh, Executive Director at Civil Rights

CIVIL RIGHTS DEFENDER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 – INTIGAM ALIYEV

TODAY, HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER INTIGAM ALIYEV WILL RECEIVE THE CIVIL RIGHTS DEFENDER OF THE YEAR AWARD AT A PRIZE CEREMONY IN STOCKHOLM. RECENTLY RELEASED FROM PRISON, HE IS ONE OF SEVERAL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN AZERBAIJAN WHO HAS BEEN DETAINED FOR THEIR WORK TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS.Over two decades Intigam Aliyev has defended numerous individuals and organisations in Azerbaijan. He has inspired a generation of young Azerbaijanis, both as a teacher and as a devoted human rights lawyer. "This support is highly valuable because it shows our realities to the world and gives hope about the

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