Each and every day prior to the informal ‘Gymnich’ meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers in Vienna, females peoples legal rights defenders from El Salvador, Poland, Indonesia, Kenya, Austria, Syria and Russia will satisfy EU representatives to need greater security and help with regards to their work amid increasing assaults on other activists.
Talking ahead of the 29 event, which will take place from 13:00 to 18:15, at the Haus der Europдischen Union, Wipplingerstrasse 35, 1010 Vienna, Guadalupe Marengo, Head of Global Human Rights Defenders Programme at Amnesty International, said august:
“From Afghanistan to Egypt and through the Democratic Republic of Congo to Brazil, ladies human legal rights defenders frequently suffer horrific reprisals whenever fighting for justice and liberties. Much too usually these women that are courageous who work with good modification, face threats, beatings, imprisonment and also death. It really is our responsibility to face in solidarity using them.”
Guadalupe Marengo, Head of Global Human Rights Defenders Programme at Amnesty Overseas
“These courageous women are right here to remind us that the EU can and may just take every chance to help ladies individual legal rights defenders. (more…)