If you’d like to help bring these stories into the light, learn more, share stories to social media, add your voice to actions or send a message of solidarity to human rights defenders at risk click this Frontline Defenders link.
You can also visit the online Human Rights Defenders Memorial. It highlights the scale of the problem of impunity for the killings of human rights defenders (including journalists, whistleblowers and activists). The Memorial celebrates the courage and achievements of human rights defenders who have been killed; it keeps their memory alive; and it use the truth to confront governments who think that human rights defenders can be eliminated without consequences. It’s also a way of sending a message of solidarity and support to their family, friends and colleagues, reminding them that they have not been forgotten.
The music in these pieces is ‘Land of the Morning Star’ from the documentary (and album) Strange Birds in Paradise, about the Indonesian occupation of West Papua.