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This
holiday season, courageous human rights defenders around
the world urgently need your support.
- In Guatemala, Indigenous Maya Q'eqchi' leader
Bernardo Caal Xol was thrown into prison and convicted
without evidence on false charges for opposing an
illegal dam project that threatened his people's
sacred river. Bernardo broke no law when he
organized his people to defend their rights and
precious water. Yet he was imprisoned, while
the dams proceeded and the river dried up.
- Last year,
Wendy Galarza nearly lost her life for speaking out
against an alarming increase in gender-based violence
in Mexico. Wendy was shot when police
opened fire on women demonstrating against government
inaction in the face of yet another murder. Now Wendy
is seeking justice for the wrongful attack on her and
the other women protestors. It is a dangerous quest
against those who have always been above the
law.
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that exposes human rights abuses.
Vladimir, we use every resource
available to support courageous human rights defenders
like Wendy and Bernardo resist blatant injustice.
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The Team at
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Photo:
Amnesty International Turkey's honourary chair Taner
Kılıç reunited with his family after being freed on
bail, August 2018. Our campaign for justice for Taner
and other human rights defenders in Turkey
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