December 2016

Irish President Launches First Global Record of Killed Human Rights Defenders

01/12/2016
24/11/2016 : Pictured was President of Ireland Michael D Higgins (centre) and Front Line Defenders Executive Director Andrew Anderson with an international committee of human rights defenders and NGO representatives at the launch of the Human Rights Defenders Memorial in Dublin. Picture Conor McCabe Photography.
24/11/2016 : Pictured was President of Ireland Michael D Higgins (centre) and Front Line Defenders Executive Director Andrew Anderson with an international committee of human rights defenders and NGO representatives at the launch of the Human Rights Defenders Memorial in Dublin. Picture Conor McCabe Photography.

The HRD Memorial aims to document, for the first time ever, all killings of human rights defenders since 1998, the  year the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders was adopted. Carlos Guevara is a Colombian human rights defender with more than a decade of  experience fighting for justice in one of South America’s most dangerous countries for HRDs. Read More >