El pasado viernes 05 de agosto una fuente me entregó un listado conteniendo los nombres de ocho defensores y defensoras de derechos humanos en Honduras sobre quiénes el gobierno de Juan Orlando Hernández había ordenado investigarlos y seguirlos.
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Dina Meza on the Honduran government’s violent persecution of journalists, human rights defenders, and political opponents.
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On June 7, award-winning filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi began serving a five year sentence in Iran’s infamous Evin Prison. In this video that Mohammadi recorded on June 6, she speaks about the impending imprisonment.
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Muratbek Ketebaev, a Kazakh activist and journalist now living in Poland, divulges the events leading up to his exilement and the political milieu in energy-rich Kazakhstan.
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On January 9, 2014Amiri Baraka, poet, playwright and activist, passed away at the age of 79. A leading figure of the Black Arts movement, today we remember Baraka by sharing an interview Sampsonia Way published in 2011, after he came to read with Cave Canem at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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In this video, the Cuban activist Yoani Sánchez delivers an exciting talk at Stanford University highlighting the significance technology and social media have in empowering the Cuban citizenry. The was event hosted by the Program on Liberation Technology at CDDRL.
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In this week’s Pakistan Unveiled author Bina Shah reflects on the death of Pakistani women’s rights activist Farida Afridi. The founder of SAWERA, a women-led human rights NGO in Pakistan’s tribal belt, is suspected to have been killed by Taliban militants.
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders expresses regret over the series of travel bans imposed on a number of human rights defenders by the Belarusian authorities, amid the worsening of EU-Belarus diplomatic relations.
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Tsering Woeser, the award-winning Tibetan writer and blogger, has been barred from collecting the Prince Claus Award at the Dutch Embassy in Beijing and was issued a month-long house arrest order.
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Sala Udin sits down with poet and activist Amiri Baraka to discuss politics, the future of black art, and the consequences of making political art in America. Their lively conversation is sprinkled with personal memories, sharp political commentary and humor.
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