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Media Mentions of the 2025 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy For information about our 2025 speakers, videos, photos, transcripts, quotes, and more, click here. Reuters article on Sebastien Lai: “Jimmy Lai’s son urges US, UK to get father out of Hong Kong jail”. Also published in The Straits
Around 1 million girls can’t go to school in Afghanistan, UN says By CBC Kids – October 11th, 2023 Click Here for the original story. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Nila Ibrahimi fled Afghanistan in August 2021 because it wasn’t safe for her and her family. Many girls in
Zimbabwe election: Voters go to the polls with fear and change on their minds Jordan King | Aug 23, 2023 Click Here for the original article Polls are opening for the sourthern African country to elect its new leader (Pictures: EPA/Getty) Zimbabweans are choosing their next president today, in the
‘Iran’s armed forces murdered my mum, it’s time the UK called them terrorists’ By: Gergana Krasteva | Jul 2, 2023 Click here for the original article Members of the Iranian community rally in solidarity with Mahsa (Jina) Amini (Picture: AP) A woman whose mother was killed by 167 shotgun pellets
Media Mentions of the 2023 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. For videos, photos, transcripts, quotes, and more, click here. CNN interview with Summit speakers, husband and wife Félix Maradiaga and Berta Valle: “‘An audit of the heart’: Nicaraguan dissident Felix Maradiaga and his wife Berta Valle on
Media Mentions of the 2022 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. For videos, photos, transcripts, quotes, and more, click here. The World story on Summit speaker and chief of staff to Alexei Navalny, Leonid Volkov: “‘Tectonic Shift’ as Support for Putin erodes” CNN segment on Summit speaker and chief
Media mentions of the Geneva Summit’s decision to award Enes Kanter Freedom its 2022 Courage Award: The National Endowment for Democracy article on the decision to award Freedom the Courage Award and other Summit speakers: “NGOs Announce Courage Award for activist NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom”. Newsweek article on the
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Media Mentions of 2021 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy For videos, photos, transcripts, media mentions, quotes, and more, click here. Los Angeles Times article on the 2021 Geneva Summit and Moral Courage Award recipient and jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny: “Ahead of G-7 and U.N. talks, political dissidents and
Media Mentions of 2020 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy For videos, photos, transcripts, media mentions, quotes, and more, click here. CNN article on Iranian rights activist and 2020 International Women’s Rights Award recipient Shaparak Shajarizadeh: “Iranian women’s rights activist: ‘Don’t wait for anyone to hand you your rights’”
Family of retired Sydney baker jailed in Vietnam say Australia needs to do more Ben Doherty – March 1, 2020 Click here to see the original article The trial of a retired Australian baker sentenced to 12 years in jail in Vietnamon terrorism charges was a “charade”, his son says, saying
Activists warn over slavery as Mauritania joins U.N. human rights council Nellie Peyton – February 26, 2020 Click here to see the original article DAKAR, Feb 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mauritania is backsliding in efforts to eliminate descent-based slavery, an activist and opposition member has warned, as the West
Iranian women’s rights activist: ‘Don’t wait for anyone to hand you your rights’ Melissa Mahtani – February 26, 2020 Click here to see the original article (CNN)She may just have won the Geneva Summit 2020 International Women’s Prize but Iranian activist Shaparak Shajarizadeh says she can’t feel happiness anymore — not while
“La résistance des femmes est quotidienne en Iran” Caroline Azad – February 22, 2020 Click here to see the original article Rencontre avec la militante iranienne Shaparak Shajarizadeh. Elle a reçu cette semaine le prix international des droits des femmes au Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy pour son
La UE comete un “gran error” al excluir a la sociedad civil de su diálogo con Cuba Isabel Saco – February 21, 2020 Click here to see the original article Ginebra (EuroEFE).- La Unión Europea está cometiendo un gran error al excluir a las organizaciones de la sociedad civil de
Iran: une opposante féministe dénonce des élections “sans espoir” L’Obs with AFP – February 20, 2020 Click here to see the original article Genève (AFP) – Elle a cru le régime iranien capable de changer mais aujourd’hui ne le pense plus. A la veille de législatives dans son pays, Shaparak
Liste über gefangene Uiguren in China “lässt mich erschaudern” Esther Felden – February 21, 2020 Click here to see the original article Eine Recherche der DW und anderer Medien hat enthüllt, wie willkürlich der chinesische Staat muslimische Uiguren in Xinjiang verfolgt: ein Anruf ins Ausland, das Tragen eines Kopftuches, das Schließen
Il grido delle donne iraniane L’attivista Shaparak Shajarizadeh: “Il regime di Teheran continua ad uccidere gli oppositori. Non c’è rispetto dei diritti umani” February 20, 2020 Click here to see the original article In Iran venerdì ci saranno le elezioni legislative. Ma a far notizia per ora è soprattutto il
Die stille Rebellion der iranischen Frauen Sabine Peschel – February 20, 2020 Click here to see the original article Kurz vor der Parlamentswahl am Freitag (21.02.2020) haben sich die Hoffnungen vieler Iranerinnen und Iraner auf politische Vielfalt zerschlagen. Der von konservativen Geistlichen beherrschte Wächterrat hat die Hälfte der knapp 14.500
Der Westen lässt die iranischen Frauen im Stich Simon Widmer – February 19, 2020 Click here to see the original article Weil sie den Kopftuchzwang missachtete, musste sie aus dem Iran fliehen. Heute verlangt die Oppositionelle Shaparak Shajarizadeh Unterstützung im Kampf gegen das Mullah-Regime. Als Shaparak Shajarizadeh auf einer Strasse
Nouveaux témoignages de la répression au Xinjiang Frédéric Koller – February 19, 2020 Click here to see the original article Jewher Ilham, la fille du célèbre prisonnier politique ouïgour Ilham Tohti, est venue évoquer à Genève la situation de la région autonome du Xinjiang Enfant surnuméraire, barbe, voile, fréquentation de
The UN, where rights abusers get to be on the human rights council Terry Glavin – February 19, 2020 Click here to see the original article It would be a sufficiently damning indictment of the United Nations that on the 75th anniversary of the global body’s founding, the state of
Wir Iranerinnen sind starke Frauen Guido Felder – February 19, 2020 Click here to see the original article Weg mit dem diskriminierenden Kopftuch! Shaparak Shajarizadeh wagte in Teheran den Aufstand und wurde dafür brutal verhaftet. BLICK sprach mit ihr in Genf über den Protest, die Situation der Frauen im Iran
Iranian headscarf campaigner calls for vote boycott Christophe De Roquefeuil – February 18, 2020 Click here to see the original article Geneva (AFP) – Anti-headscarf campaigner Shaparak Shajarizadeh once believed in the potential for change in Iran but is now so despondent she is calling for a boycott of Friday’s
Coronavirus would be ‘disastrous’ for China’s Muslim concentration camp prisoners and the world might never find out, Uyghur activist warns David Brennan – February 18, 2020 Click here to see the original article Coronavirus poses a serious risk to millions of inmates in China’s Muslim prison camps, where overcrowding and