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23 June 2016

Living Under Digital Surveillance: Human Rights Defender Perceptions and Experiences

Introduction

In November 2015, at the Eighth Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders, Front Line Defenders (FLD) asked human rights defenders (HRDs) from across Asia, Africa, Americas, Europe and the Middle East/North Africa to share experiences of living under digital surveillance and the perceived impact this has on their work and lives.

Violations 
#Surveillance
Location 
#Global
Take Action
15 April 2016

Take action for Cacique Babau

On 11 April 2016, human rights defender and Tupinambá indigenous leader Mr Rosivaldo Ferreira da Silva was placed under house arrest after being arbitrarily arrested on 7 April 2016 by the military police (polícia militar) in the state of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil. This follows previous incidents of threats and intimidation against indigenous rights defenders in Brazil.

Rights 
#Environmental Rights
#Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights
Violations 
#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment
#Threats / Intimidation
Location 
#Brazil
HRD or Organization 
Cacique Babau
Publication
9 August 2016

Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Here are the activists at risk for defending them.

When members of Juan Francisco Martínez’s community found his body in January 2015, his body bore marks of torture. One of his hands was still tied with what appeared to be laces from military boots.

Juan, a human rights defender and indigenous Lenca man from Honduras, was found on 5 January 2015 in the village of Tapuyman in the Santa Elena Municipality of La Paz, Honduras. He had been killed the day before.

Rights 
#Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights
Violations 
#Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment #Physical Attack
Location 
#Global
Publication
7 August 2017

Stories of resistance: the women leading the struggle for indigenous rights

María Magdalena Tun didn’t choose to become a human rights defender. But when private companies started evicting local communities in her region, polluting the rivers and destroying the forests, she realised she could not sit idly by: she had to defend the rights of her people.

Rights 
#Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights
Violations 
#Defamation #Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment #Other Harassment #Physical Attack
Location 
#Global
Publication
6 March 2017

Bringing change, bringing hope

Ana Maria has helped hundreds of Dominicans of Haitian descent reclaim their rights, and resist racism and discrimination. Lorraine leads innovative education initiatives, to raise awareness about environmental rights in communities affected by coal mining in South Africa. Nisha successfully challenged a law discriminating against transgender people in Malaysia, and set up the first organisation providing support to the trans community in her country.

Rights 
#Environmental Rights #Gender/Women's Rights #Civil & Political Rights #Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights
Violations 
#Judicial Harassment #Other Harassment #Physical Attack
Location 
#Global

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