Front Line Defenders has learned with great sadness of the death of human rights defender Rafiq Hajat, who passed on 13 September 2021 of a heart attack. Despite the personal risks, Rafiq Hajat dedicated 20 years of his life to peacefully defending human rights in Malawi.

Há alguns anos atrás conheci o texto “Falando em línguas: uma carta para as mulheres escritoras do terceiro mundo”¹ de Glória Anzaldua. Incentivadora da escrita das mulheres, a estudiosa de teoria cultural chicana, feminista e lésbica convoca as mulheres do então chamado “terceiro mundo” a escrever e reconhece na escrita uma forma, a meu ver, de criação, sobrevivência.

On 10 September 2020, Yury Korzun, a miner from Belarusian city of Salihorsk chained himself to a piece of equipment 300 meters below the surface. Belarusians commented it happened because “another person has handcuffed himself to the presidential chair”.

In mid-February 2020, as the coronavirus outbreak led to cities and counties across China imposing strict lockdown, a mother surnamed Wang and her two young children, with luggage in tow, walked for almost five hours in an attempt to return to their hometown in a neighbouring county after she was beaten by her abusive ex-husband.