When committing to human rights can cost your life. In recent years, more and more of the associations supported by CCFD-Terre Solidaire have alerted us to the threats looming over them.As international Human rights Day is celebrated on December 10, Sarah Lecoq, advocacy officer at CCFD-Terre Solidaire, is sounding the alarm and calling for a collective start.
This column is taken from Echos du monde, our international solidarity magazine.
A graduate of the Practical Institute of Journalism and sciences Po Lyon, Sarah Lecoq worked for more than 10 years as a reporter, in France and abroad, focusing in particular on social issues such as violence against women and inequalities. She then resumed studies at IRIS Sup to train in humanitarian and international projects. She is now a human rights specialist and has worked at CCFD-Terre Solidaire sence 2024, as a conflict and human rights advocacy officer.
“More than 400. This is the number of human rights and environmental defenders who have been murdered around the world just in 2022.
Everywhere CCFD-Terre solidaire acts, the same brutal observation emerges: the voices that protect our rights, our lands, our planet are hunted down, criminalized, silenced. Climate, social justice, freedom of the press, rights of LGBT+ people, public transparency… no fight escapes repression.
In a few years, the call for help