{"id":3000,"date":"2020-11-25T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2020-11-27T18:08:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:08:17","slug":"supportwhdrs-for-16days-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/?p=3000","title":{"rendered":"#SupportWHRDs for #16Days 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Government crackdown against women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has consistently intensified during 2020. Governments have systematically restricted civic space &amp; shut down organizations, and they&#8217;re increasingly targeting the few remaining activists with terrorism &amp; security charges. As such, WHRDs have systematically faced government harassment, smear campaigns, detention, arrest, lengthy prison sentences, torture and even assassinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the 16 Days of Activism to violence against women, CSBR joins  FEMENA, WHRD-MENA Coalition, DAWN-Mena, AWID, Human Rights Watch, and the International Service for Human Rights, to launch a campaign to raise awareness of the situation of women human rights defenders across Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"935\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/16Days2020.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/16Days2020.png 935w, https:\/\/csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/16Days2020-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/16Days2020-768x375.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 935px) 100vw, 935px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow us along on social media and help amplify our call. Together we can #SupportWHRDs! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government crackdown against women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has consistently intensified during 2020. Governments have systematically restricted civic space &amp; shut down organizations, and they&#8217;re increasingly targeting the few remaining activists with terrorism &amp; security charges. As such, WHRDs have systematically faced government harassment, smear campaigns, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/?p=3000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#SupportWHRDs for #16Days 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline","category-news","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}