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25 Human Rights NGOs Announce: Targeted Iran International Journalists To Receive2024 Courage Award
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 5:55 am | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
Previous laureates of the Geneva Summit Courage Award include leading Nicaraguan opposition politician Félix Maradiaga, the late Russian opposition leader and political prisoner Alexei Navalny, Saudi political prisoner Raif Badawi, and Mauritanian anti-slavery ... More >>
Anti-FGM Campaigner Fatou Baldeh To Receive 2024 Women's Rights Award
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 5:04 am | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
Gambian women’s rights activist Fatou Baldeh will be honored with the Geneva Summit Women's Rights Award for her extraordinary leadership and courage in fighting for the human dignity of women and girls in The Gambia, where 75% of women have been ... More >>
Human Rights Group Call On UN Leaders To Demand Release Of Russian Dissident
Tuesday, 3 May 2022, 5:38 am | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
GENEVA, May 2, 2022 –Today, a coalition of 25 human rights organizations called on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, along with all other relevant UN human rights mandate-holders and special ... More >>
25 Rights NGOs Announce Women's Rights Award Winner: Zarifa Ghafari, Youngest Female Afghan Mayor
Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 7:05 am | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
GENEVA, March 21, 2022 – A coalition of 25 human rights organizations announced today that its prestigious women’s rights award will go this year to Zarifa Ghafari , Afghanistan’s youngest female mayor and a survivor of three Taliban assassination ... More >>
Activists And Lawmakers Worldwide Launch Campaign For Jailed Hong Kong Newspaper Owner Jimmy Lai
Thursday, 9 December 2021, 8:21 pm | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
GENEVA, December 8, 2021 - An international alliance of human rights activists and parliamentarians will today launch a campaign in solidarity with imprisoned Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai. Politicians from the UK, France, New Zealand, ... More >>
Announcing Winner Of Geneva Summit International Women's Rights Award
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 5:30 am | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
GENEVA, May 19, 2021 – An international coalition of 25 human rights organizations has announced that its prestigious International Women's Rights award will be presented to Gulalai Ismail , a prominent campaigner for Pakistani women's rights who fled ... More >>
Political Prisoners' Families Spotlight Iran, Saudi Arabia
Saturday, 30 March 2019, 1:46 pm | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
The wife and children of Saudi political prisoner Raif Badawi joined families of political prisoners from Iran and the Philippines this week, together with former political prisoners from Turkey, China, Vietnam and other prominent dissidents, to ... More >>
25 NGOs Announce Women's Rights Award to Congo Advocate
Friday, 2 February 2018, 9:19 am | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
GENEVA, February 1, 2018 -- A cross-regional alliance of 25 human rights organizations announced today that Julienne Lusenge, a grassroots activist in the Democratic Republic of Congo who leads a coalition of 40 women’s organizations fighting rape, has been ... More >>
DPRK Concentration Camps Survivors at Geneva Rights Summit
Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 12:30 pm | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
The growing push by UN officials, diplomats and campaigners for an international inquiry into North Korea’s vast archipelago of political prison camps, to be debated soon at the UN Human Rights Council, will get a massive boost next week when two ... More >>
Husband of Pussy Riot Prisoner at Geneva Rights Summit
Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 9:50 am | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
Russia’s imprisonment of Pussy Riot musician Nadya Tolokonnikova will be spotlighted this month at the seat of the United Nations Human Rights Council, when her activist husband joins top-name dissidents from Iran, Tibet and Syria for the 5th annual Geneva ... More >>
20-Year-Old Syrian Female Activist Beaten In Egypt
Friday, 24 February 2012, 10:20 am | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
20-Year-Old Syrian Female Activist Beaten In Egypt On Eve Of Geneva Testimony at UN Rights Council More >>
Leading Dissidents to Headline Human Rights Issues at Summit
Friday, 27 January 2012, 4:10 pm | Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
Geneva, Jan. 26 - Top name dissidents from Syria, Burma, Iran and China are expected to be among the biggest newsmakers at the 4th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, on March 13. The widely acclaimed event takes place in Geneva as diplomats ... More >>
