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Mikhail Benyash

Russia’s conviction of human rights lawyer should be overturned

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Democracy Defenders
Paralegals providing legal advice to a woman in Freetown Sierra Leone

CFJ Launches Fellowship for Women Lawyers in Africa

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Lawyers
The panel and audience at the launch event of CFJ's justice Justice Beyond Borders project

CFJ Launches Justice Beyond Borders Project to Increase Survivors’ Access to Justice

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Crimes Against Humanity
Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam takes part in a citizens' rally in Dhaka

Photojournalist in Bangladesh Facing 14 Years for Charges Under a Law That No Longer Exists

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Criminalizing reporting
Thai pro-democracy leader, Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, speaks during a mass rally

Thailand Should Dismiss Charges Against 22 Protest Leaders

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Democracy Defenders
An armed man stands between makeshift homes in Cameroon

A Year After Being Granted Bail, A Cameroonian Mother & Her Child Are Still In Prison

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Women
Demonstration for the decriminalization of abortion during the World Day of Action for Legal and Safe Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean in Caracas

Teacher Prosecuted in Venezuela for Providing Abortion Pills to Child Rape Survivor

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Reproductive Rights
A protester with red painted hands and inscription "Iran" takes part outside the Iranian Consulate during the demonstration.

Justice for Iranian Protesters Means Gathering Evidence Before It is Lost

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Crimes Against Humanity
Jounalist Askhat Zheksebaev

Kazakh Activist’s Conviction for Social Media Posts Was ‘Deeply Flawed’

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Democracy Defenders
Journalist Jose Ruben Zamora Marroquin, founder and president of El Periodico newspaper, arrives at a court hearing at the towering judicial building days after his detention by Guatemalan authorities on money laundering and blackmail allegations

TrialWatch to Monitor Guatemalan Journalist’s Trial

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Criminalizing reporting
Anti-government protesters clash with police at Altamira square in Caracas March 16, 2014

CFJ and Foro Penal Submit Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity Committed by Military Officials in Venezuela to the ICC

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Crimes Against Humanity
From left to right, Sara Sidner moderates a panel with Amal Clooney, Wanjiru Wahome, Michelle Obama, and Melinda French Gates

Michelle Obama, Melinda French Gates, and Amal Clooney Announce Collaboration to Support Adolescent Girls’ Education and Help End Child Marriage

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Child Marriage
Women protest in Iran by burning the headscarves they are forced to wear

Clooney Foundation for Justice Condemns Iran’s Violent Crackdown on Women

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Democracy Defenders
Amal and George Clooney with the awardees at the inaugural Albies ceremony

Global Justice Defenders Honored in Clooney Foundation For Justice’s Inaugural Albie Awards in New York

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The Albies
Darren Walker, Amal Clooney, and George Clooney announce the winners of the 2022 Albies awards

CFJ to Honor Global Justice Defenders at Inaugural Albie Awards

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The Albies