• May 8 2013
  • 11:02am
Good news: women accused of 'sorcery' released
Last month, we asked for your help to release three women being held ho
  • May 2 2013
  • 10:59am
El Salvador: Woman denied life-saving treatment
Update, 10 May
  • Apr 12 2013
  • 1:24pm
Papua New Guinea: Help release women held captive, accused of 'sorcery'
Last week police stood by and watched as Helen Rumbali, a women's rights advocate and former school teacher accused of sorcery, was beheaded in front of her community in Papua ...
  • Mar 22 2013
  • 4:32pm
Message of thanks from freed Bahrain teacher, Jalila al Salman
Video Jalila al Salman is former Vice-President of the Bahraini Teaching Union.
  • Mar 19 2013
  • 4:13pm
Save lives and protect human rights - sign up for the Urgent Action Network today
Video In 1973 Tracy Ulltveit-Moe launched the first ever Urgent Action, on behalf of Professor Luis Rossi.
  • Mar 5 2013
  • 2:51pm
Maldives: 15-year-old rape survivor to be flogged for 'fornication'
Last week, a 15 year old girl who was raped by her stepfather was convicted of ‘fornication’ and sentenced to eight months’ house arrest
  • Feb 20 2013
  • 3:23pm
Magamed Abubakarov: lawyer getting death threats by text
Defence lawyer Magamed Abubakarov has been getting anonymous text messages containing death threats.
  • Jan 24 2013
  • 1:47pm
Save Li Yan: denied protection from abuse – now facing execution
  • Dec 21 2012
  • 7:42pm
Happy Birthday Pocket Protest
It’s hard to believe, but our SMS action network is one year old! In that time it’s been given a name – Pocket Protest; grown from nothing to almost 20,000 member...
  • Nov 5 2012
  • 11:49am
Teachers locked up after calling for a strike - tell Bahrain to drop the charges
Video ‘Mama’s tears are heartbreaking…563 days were hard…5 years a nightmare’ – Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb’s daughter responds to him r

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