10 September 10 - From the Christian Science Monitor: Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng was freed Thursday after four years in jail, to find the Chinese civil rights movement he helped pioneer weak, but lawyers still in the fight. Read

9 September 10 - From Human Rights Watch: Congolese authorities should open a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation of the abduction and ill-treatment of a human rights defender in North Kivu province in late August. Read

8 September 10 - From Human Rights Watch: George Soros, philanthropist and financier, today announced a challenge grant of $100 million over 10 years to Human Rights Watch. Read

7 September 10 - From Human Rights Watch: Many European companies that publicly embrace workers’ rights under global labor standards nevertheless undermine workers’ rights in their US operations. Read

6 September 10 - From OCHA: The United Nations and its partners are increasingly concerned about the humanitarian situation in flood-torn Pakistan’s south-western province of Balochistan, and are working to step up their activities there. Read

4 September 10 - From Reporters Without Borders: As millions of Pakistanis continue to suffer from the flooding that has hit a fifth of the country, journalists’ organisations and media support groups are stepping up their efforts to help news media and journalists in the affected (...) Read

2 September 10 - From FIDH: Cambodians have faced increasingly severe restrictions on their freedom of expression since 2008, according to a new report by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. Read

2 September 10 - From Reporters Without Borders: Dunya TV reporter Hafiz Muhammad Imran Shehzad has just been the target of an apparent murder attempt in Sialkot, in the northeastern province of Punjab, because his coverage of the lynching of two brothers in the presence of police officers in (...) Read

1 September 10 - From UN News: The United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has expressed deep concern after the apparent abduction of a human rights defender who had spoken out against alleged rights violations by members of the country’s (...) Read

31 August 10 - From Reporters Without Borders: RSF condemns the two-year jail sentences that have been imposed on Sonam Rinchen and Sonam Dhondup, two students who helped to edit the Tibetan student magazine Namchak. Read