Calling for the end of reprisals against human rights defenders
Channel: ISHRGlobal
Date: 2018-09-24

The International Service for Human Rights is proud to present a new video featuring the personal accounts of defenders detailing the plight of targeted individuals who face life-altering consequences after cooperating with the UN. These acts of retaliation by the State are known as reprisals. 

Reprisals can include travel bans, stalking, personal threats or threats against the family, detainment and in many cases, such as the case of human rights defense lawyer Jiang Tianyong, even conviction.

"States and all the other stakeholders must stand up and hold the line on international standards and we must also hold the line on individuals. Every individual life counts," Sharon Hom, Executive Director of Human Rights in China.

Learn about and download the new ISHR handbook on reprisals for human rights defenders, available here in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Mandarin:

http://www.ishr.ch/news/reprisals-new-ishr-handbook-reprisals-human-rights-defenders