On UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #WorldPressFreedomDay , we celebrate the critical role of a free press. Despite risks and challenges, journalists bravely shed light on crucial issues, ensuring the public is informed and engaged, and holding governments and institutions accountable.

Last week Azerbaijan arrested Anar Mammadli, a rights defender & founding member of a new climate justice civic initiative that urges #Cop29Azerbaijan to promote civic space & environmental justice in Azerbaijan. Free him now! New Human Rights House Foundation statement hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

Read what our partners from the Network of #HumanRightsHouses say about the connection between #mentalhealth and #humanrights and its critical role in the resilience of civil society.

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Norway MFA European Commission

We congratulate our partners at Viasna on 28 years of protecting and advancing #humanrights in Belarus. Today five of our colleagues from Viasna are behind bars, among 1390+ political prisoners in the country as a reprisal for their legitimate work.

🏆 Mariia Sulialina, the head of CCE “Almenda,” became the Civil Rights Defender of the Year 2024!

Since age 15, she's championed justice for children in occupied territories, tirelessly documenting war crimes.
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#HumanRights #Ukraine

HRHF welcomes PACE calls for support for the protection of freedom of expression and assembly for #LGBTQI people and their defenders. This is crucial in light of 'anti-LGBTI propaganda' laws threatening HRDs in Russia, Belarus, Georgia & more.  pace.coe.int/en/news/9431/p…