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Tania Bruguera, an internationally celebrated artist whose work challenges the authorities in Cuba, has been branded a counter revolutionary, repeatedly arrested and harassed.

This South African photographer uses her portraits of black lesbian women to provide a platform where they can celebrate their identity.

Eight years in jail and a US$327,000 fine. That’s the penalty biology student Diego Gómez was facing before he was found not guilty of criminal copyright infringement charges.

Death threats, a criminal defamation suit and malicious propaganda campaigns have not stopped Leonardo Sakamoto from campaigning for an end to slave labour in Brazil.

It’s a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it not when it’s easy and supports your position, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

Jailed for campaigning for justice, Vladimir Kozlov – journalist, political activist and human rights defender – has long been a thorn in the side of Kazakhstan’s authoritarian president.

Being a women’s rights activist in the country with the third highest rate of femicides in the world can be a deadly task. One that Norma Cruz has courageously taken on for the last 15 years.

Far from media attention, a Peruvian indigenous woman struggles to protect her land and water against large corporations.

Laura Poitras has for years been monitored and harassed by the US security agencies whose surveillance activities, leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, she helped expose.

Defending a human right as basic as respect for sexual orientation can be a deadly sin in Honduras, as demonstrated by the wave of attacks and assassinations perpetrated against activists in the country.

Forty years after his murder, the often surreal life of Argentina’s most renowned journalist-activist still captivates the imagination of the world.

Colombian radio journalist Nelson Carvajal Carvajal exposed local corruption; he was murdered in 1998 and his killers enjoy impunity. On 22 and 23 August 2017, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights heard Carvajal’s case in Costa Rica, which IAPA had called “a milestone in the fight against impunity”

Gareth Peirce has spent 40 years fighting to overturn miscarriages of justice, many of which are the result of the over-zealous use of anti-terrorism measures.

Mozn Hassan has received praise and international accolades for refusing to separate politics from feminism. And that’s something the Egyptian government will not forgive easily.

The technology that blocks and filters the internet, explained.

Cambodia is among the 41 states whose human rights records are under scrutiny at the ongoing 32nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s UPR Working Group. Cambodia’s report was delivered on 30 January.