Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Marion Bowman writes Security is not just CCTV: valuing ourselves is security for our Defending the Defenders conference.
It was a classic image of protectiveness. The figure of a soldier stood, fatherly, silent, unyielding, over a seated ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Jennifer Allsopp interviews woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed about grass-roots responses to the atrocities women are facing under ISIS, for our Defending the Defenders conference.
On the second day of the Nobel Women's Initiative ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: In 2010, Karima Bennoune interviewed woman human rights defender Sabeen Mahmud. To honor her memory, this interview was republished during our Defending the Defenders conference.
Sabeen Mahmud alleviated intellectual poverty until the day ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Jennifer Allsopp writes Women human rights defenders: reigniting the embers for our Defending the Defenders conference.
When you think of the word freedom fighter, the image that comes to mind for many is that of a confident, charismatic, ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire writes Breaking the Silence on Palestine for our Defending the Defenders conference.
About 10 years ago, Doctor Mona El-Farra, one of Palestine’s greatest woman human rights defenders, visited Northern ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Brigid Inder writes A tribute to Joan Kagezi: The murder of a human rights defender for our Defending the Defenders conference.
On 30 March, at around 7.30pm, Joan Kagezi, Senior Principal State Attorney in Uganda, was murdered by ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Jody Williams writes Defending the Defenders: A daunting challenge for our Defending the Defenders conference.
Some of the people most at risk in the world are those who dare to work to promote and defend the human rights of us all. Not ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Ndana Bofu-Tawamba writes At the margins of visibility: recognising women human rights defenders for our Defending the Defenders conference.
The term “women human rights defenders” (WHRDs) is one that is often measured or judged by a woman's ...read more
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