Rights Activists in a sentence

It said human rights activists, especially in mining communities, often put their lives at risk and that it saw the killing of Ntshangase as a threat to the creation of a safe environment for activists to exercise their rights.

Pro-abortion rights activists have sought to follow the path of supporters of abortion rights in Ohio, who last year successfully put an amendment to its state constitution defending abortion rights on the ballot, which passed.

Early access to strong encryption came from activists who created ways for civil rights activists to secure their communications from repressive governments.

In Northern Ireland’s current political situation, this means pitting reproductive rights activists against Irish-language activists – the status of the latter being part of what brought down the Stormont government in 2017.

Mr. de Castro and the other two homeowners, Gonzalo Carrión and Haydee Castillo, are all human rights activists who are among more than 300 Nicaraguans declared traitors this year by the Sandinista government with no rights to citizenship or property.

Human rights activists like Harrison Gwamnishu are vital in highlighting injustices and advocating for individuals’ rights, often bringing attention to police misconduct cases.

Gun-control supporters say the movement that encourages such displays seeks to intimidate the police and the public, while gun-rights activists defend it as a celebration of their Second Amendment rights.

On January 14, the UN's human rights body released a brief on the killings of human rights activists in Colombia.

Nearly 300 farmers, indigenous people and land rights activists have been killed since Duterte took office in 2016, according to Philippine human rights groups.

Gun battles between herders in Kenya’s arid north over access to grazing and water is linked to communal ownership, said Kamau Ngugi, head of the Nairobi-based National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders, which supports land rights activists.

Iran’s High Council of Human Rights, a subdivision of the judiciary, criticized Saudi authorities on Saturday for seeking the death penalty against five human rights activists, including, for the first time, a woman.

Such language is usually reserved for those who criticise the kingdom’s human rights record, such as Sweden in 2015 after the public flogging of a blogger, and Canada this year over the arrests of women’s rights activists.

Abortion rights activists rally outside a building at 8 S. Michigan Ave. in Chicago that houses an anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy center” on July 15, 2023.

Among them are civil society leaders, women’s rights activists, journalists and others who worked to advance U.S. policy and build a more open Afghan society.

As companies look to evade restrictions and invest in new regions, human rights activists are sharing concerns over the implications of these moves.

Belafonte provided bail money to get King and other civil rights activists out of jail.

But today's level of state repression is unprecedented, say rights activists.

Child rights activists said the crackdown did not happen in a day although the initial mass outrage could not have been avoided given the scale of the social malaise and the sudden impact on lives.

Civil rights activists worry that efforts to address national security are discriminating against people of Chinese descent, while business leaders also warn that isolating Chinese investment could have adverse consequences for the US and global trade.

Critics of the government are repeatedly imprisoned in Egypt on such charges, which human rights activists describe as politically motivated.