Check out our upcoming events and join the latest human rights discussions!
Together with key partners, ISHR regularly organises events in order to amplify human rights defenders’ voices and ensure they have a seat at the table when it comes to denouncing abuses and crafting solutions to the world’s challenges.
This side event will share findings and analysis of the use of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance in China and its chilling effects on human rights advocacy, assess shortcomings in China’s actions, and propose recommendations for action by the international community.
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Listen to the stories of four human rights defenders who have been banned from travelling by their own governments simply for trying to cooperate with the United Nations. Join us on Place des Nations on 16 September. Will you guess which suitcase belongs to whom?
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In advance of the Human Rights Council elections that will take place this autumn for the membership term 2026-2028, Amnesty International and the International Service for Human Rights will hold an online pledging event for candidate States on 4 September 2025.
This event provides a space to be hearing directly from human rights defendes not only about why they need an effective, efficient, responsive UN human rights system to support their activism especially in the current context, but also about the ways in which the UN system needs to grow, evolve, adapt and reform itself to deal with the crisis of credibility and legitimacy it is currently facing
Join us for the launch of the Islands Report published by ISHR, highlighting the realities, needs, and concrete support strategies for human rights defenders.
This event discusses the reality and challenges that human rights defenders face in the context of new and emerging technologies. It also helps remind States about the range of obligations in this field that can contribute to inform the consultations on the HRC58 resolution on human rights defenders.
On 9 December, Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day, a screening of In Search of My Sister followed by a panel discussion on Uyghur human rights was organised.
This event addressed the misuse of counterterrorism policies to oppress human rights defenders.
