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Funmi Ogundare -in this This Day of 8 Ocober 2026- gives a good example what can be done at local level for young people:
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has empowered 30 senior secondary students of Premiere Academy, Abuja, as human rights defenders and peace ambassadors, charging them to promote human rights, peace and civic responsibility in their sc...
In the Committee’s words: At a time of existential challenges – including more wa...
Pakistan
Jalila Haider“For breaking barriers, as the first female lawyer from her Hazara community, to challenge ethnic, state and patriarchal persecution, guided by the conviction that no human being is illegal.”
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On 6 October 2026, Al Jazeera and others tell the story:
Omar Radi is a journalist and human rights defender from Morocco. His case is among four detailed in a new Amnesty International report, We Start With the Verdict: Inside Morocco’s Surveillance Machine, produced with 14 media organisations and coordinated by the international network of journa...
On 30 September 2026 the MENA Rigths Group and partner organisations called for the immediate release of six journalists working at the independent investigative journalism platform Matsadaash.
Photo collage of the six Egyptian Matsadaash journalists, arrested between September 28 and 29, 2026, courtesy of The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP). ...