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IFEX takes a look at Frank La Rue’s lifetime quest to bring human rights abusers to justice.

IFEX – a global network of over 100 organisations dedicated to promoting and defending freedom of expression and information – is deeply concerned over threats against César Ricaurte, Executive Director of the Fundación Andina para la Observación y el Estudio de Medios (Fundamedios). The threats began after he received a sentence of 15 days in prison and a demand for an official apology for his public rebuke of former ambassador Jorge Jurado.

Daniel Pearl was a highly experienced journalist who worked at many of the “Wall Street Journal”‘s bureaus. He is sadly also remembered for the fact that his murder, which took place while we was on assignment in Pakistan, has never been solved.

In Mauritania, slavery is not something you read about in books. It is a living institution. An institution Biram Dah Abeid is paying a dear price to abolish.

The Cameroonian poet who got himself kicked out of prison.

Independent French photojournalist Camille Lepage was only 26 years old when she was killed while covering the violence in the Central African Republic. Passionate about human rights and the underreported consequences of international conflicts, Lepage’s work has appeared in prestigious publications including “The New York Times”, “Le Monde” and “The Guardian”.

By defending Crimea’s minority Tatars against Russian persecution, Emil Kurbedinov has himself become a target in a region renowned for imprisonments and disappearances.

The Open Government Partnership brings states together to make their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. Find out how civil society groups can be a part of it!

This is one in a series of IFEX explainers aimed at strengthening the ability of civil society to engage in global spaces for free expression advocacy. To visit the hub page and see the whole set, click here.

IFEX takes a look at the life of one of the world’s best known whistleblowers.

Rayma Suprani has had a long career as a hard-hitting political cartoonist, having worked at Venezuela’s oldest and largest circulation newspaper, “El Universal”, for 19 years before she was fired in September 2014.

Human rights activist Leyla Yunus and her historian husband, Arif, are at threat of being extradited to Azerbaijan to face trial on trumped up charges of treason, tax evasion and fraud. Both had spent time in prison, suffered acute health problems and were eventually granted political asylum in the Netherlands, yet an appeals court in Baku is demanding that they return to be questioned by the court in person.

As the crisis in Burundi threatens to tip back into civil war with escalating killings of demonstrators and government opponents, at its epicentre is the calm figure of human rights defender Pierre Claver Mbonimpa.

Vorn Pao is a workers’ rights activist whose advocacy for Cambodia’s low paid workers has been met with assaults, imprisonment and the threat of being returned to jail.

The most prominent Mapuche journalist-activist in Chile, Pedro Cayuqueo campaigns for indigenous rights in an increasingly volatile environment.

The last Zone 9 member was released a few months after Obama’s visit to Ethiopia, but the struggle continues for this free expression collective.

Neither prison nor constant threats have stopped Bopha from continuing her fight against the displacement of thousands of residents.