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IM-Defensoras Launches Landmark Report on Violence Against Women Human Rights Defenders in Mesoamerica
For more than a decade, the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras) has documented the patterns, perpetrators, and impacts of violence against women defenders across the region. Now, through their latest research report “Data That Hurt Us, Networks That Save Us”, they reveal the scale and severity of this violence – over 35,000 attacks between 2012 and 2023 – and highlight the power of feminist collective protection in resisting patriarchal, racist, and extractivist violence.
Coming Soon: Defending Rights in the Crosshairs of War Tech
Across some of the world’s most volatile conflict zones, Kashmir, Venezuela, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Palestine, defenders continue to resist, document, and organise under the weight of surveillance, digital repression, and war-fuelled technologies. This upcoming journalistic series brings to light the lived experiences of women and gender-diverse human rights defenders navigating hyper-militarised digital landscapes. From spyware to internet shutdowns, biometric surveillance to AI-driven targeting, defenders are not only witnessing conflict—they are being digitally tracked, silenced, and criminalised..