This month's Index: Alerts: 32 attacks against #HRDs reported Support delivered: 704 defenders supported through our programmes 📩 Check our bulletin for more details: tinyurl.com/57us5vhm 🗞️ Want to subscribe? #HumanRights #ProtectDefenders

🚨 Uganda: 🔸 #KCB11 environmental defenders remain jailed over 50 days 🔸 Students arrested & tortured after protest at Kyambogo University A dangerous pattern of silencing dissent. 📰 : tinyurl.com/4sywsxxz 📬 : tinyurl.com/57us5vhm #Uganda #ProtectDefenders

📢 We’re hiring! ProtectDefenders.eu is recruiting a Sub-Grant & Compliance Officer to support our work defending human rights defenders worldwide. 📍 Brussels | 🗓 Apply now 🔗tinyurl.com/2349depm

As 🇩🇰 launches its #EUPresidency with a focus on security and the "right to feel safe", we call for that right to include those who defend human rights and face serious risks. Let’s make sure no one is left behind. 🔗 europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/hom… #DenmarkEU #HRDs

📢 Over 100 organisations demand justice for Ruth López and Fidel Zavala detained after exposing torture and state corruption. Civic space must be protected, not criminalised. 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/ysm6cdpp Subscribe: tinyurl.com/57us5vhm #HRDs #ProtectDefenders

📢 We’re hiring! ProtectDefenders.eu is recruiting a Sub-Grant & Compliance Officer to support our work defending human rights defenders worldwide. 📍 Brussels | 🗓 Apply now 🔗tinyurl.com/2349depm

🔴 #Tunisia Lawyer Sonia Dahmani jailed for 18 months after criticizing racism. Activist Mohamed Ali Rtimi violently arrested, now in detention. Both cases reflect a growing pattern of repression. Read the article here: tinyurl.com/522xd94h #ProtectDefenders

Sanctioning #FrancescaAlbanese for denouncing apartheid sets a dangerous precedent — it undermines the UN system and silences those defending human rights. On #MandelaDay, we reaffirm the right to speak truth to power. Read here tinyurl.com/23u8uhyx #ProtectDefenders

🇬🇪 Under growing restrictions, Georgia’s civic space is shrinking fast. 🗣️ “Torture has returned. Protestors are imprisoned. But people are still in the streets.” Human rights defender Natia Tavberidze tells us more. #Georgia #ProtectDefenders #HRD 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr27wrsu

“Defending life, territory, and peace.” We interviewed Colombian #HRD Yesica Méndez Alvarado, currently in Barcelona under temporary relocation. Her story is one of resistance, courage, and care. 🔗 Read: tinyurl.com/4ct4d4kd #ProtectDefenders

Ethiopia’s new law threatens NGOs. Georgia’s “Foreign Agents” law targets activists. Guatemala’s justice system represses indigenous leaders & journalists. Also: sanctions on Albanese, interviews with Natia & Yesica. Stay informed. Stay loud. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc73khy5

This month's Index: Alerts: 21 attacks against #HRDs reported Support delivered: 683 defenders supported through our programmes 🗞️ tinyurl.com/yc73khy5 #HumanRights #ProtectDefenders

🚨 Call for Consultancy Are you an expert in human rights & impact evaluation? We are launching a mid-term evaluation of the EU HRD mechanism #ProtectDefenders. 🔍 Relevance, effectiveness & support to HRDs under threat. 📄 Details here: tinyurl.com/3r682a9b #HRDs #EU

🚨 A proposed law in #Ethiopia could give the gov’t sweeping powers to control civil society, threatening free expression, association & justice. If passed, it would be a major blow to civic space. Read more ⬇️ 📩 tinyurl.com/yc73khy5 🔗 tinyurl.com/4x7n4bs3

🚨 Civil society in #Georgia is under attack. In new “Foreign Agents” law bank accounts have been frozen, journalists and HRDs have been targeted and peaceful protesters jailed. 📖 tinyurl.com/4d68fdef 📩 tinyurl.com/yc73khy5 #ProtectDefenders #HRDs

For the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we’re sharing powerful stories from our work: real examples of communities leading the fight for land, justice, and cultural survival. Read here: tinyurl.com/4u8dyfjx

🇬🇹 #Guatemala is facing a deepening human rights crisis. Indigenous & environmental and journalists defenders face criminalisation, while the ex-prosecutor Virginia Laparra is threatened in exile. 📖 tinyurl.com/jubzw7rt 📩 tinyurl.com/yc73khy5 #ProtectDefenders

4 years after the Taliban’s return, Afghanistan faces one of the most severe human rights crises. Women & girls erased from public life, dissent silenced, yet defenders continue to resist. Read our interview with Sayed Hussain Anosh 👉 tinyurl.com/4tr3vauz

From Colombia to Tajikistan, from Kenya to Afghanistan, this month’s bulletin highlights the struggles and resilience of human rights defenders worldwide. 📢 Read our August edition: tinyurl.com/47ant2fa

New platforms, same mission. 💪 ProtectDefenders.eu will be soon on Instagram & Bluesky! Bringing human rights defenders’ voices to new spaces. Stay tuned and join us. 🌍✊