The 2017 Dublin Platform took place from the 17th to 19th of October in Dublin Castle, bringing together more than 110 human rights defenders from 99 different countries, to share experiences, learn from each other and come up with new and more effective strategies for
In February 2006, an explosion at the Pasta de Conchos mine, in northern Mexico, left 65 miners dead. Since then, human rights defender Cristina Auerbach and her organisation Familia Pasta de Conchos have been demanding justice for the victims and their families. Other HRDs, such as Esmeralda Saldaña, have joined the struggle.
Ingrid Vergara Chavéz is a land rights defender working with the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) in Sucre, Colombia. Ingrid and her colleagues demand justice and an end to impunity for government and paramilitary crimes, and advocate for the return of lands to displaced peasant and indigenous communities In response, she and her daughters have been threatened with weapons, public pamphlets, phone and email messages, and surveillance.
