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May 14, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are looked upon with mistrust. Total suspicion.
June 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I have never taken a cent of money.
May 16, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Even our own families, when they see the image the media presents of our field, become suspicious of our work... View Article
September 27, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
For most people, we are considered spies and traitors receiving money from abroad.
March 4, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It is totally in the hands of the authorities as long as you have decided to engage in public work.
January 13, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You suddenly find out that we issue a press release that looks like we are talking to ourselves, not the... View Article
August 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The feeling of defeat does not mean losing faith in the cause.
April 2, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I was really scared.
March 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People think that we are strong and we know everything.
December 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Being able to think about your mind is a privilege that many people cannot afford.
May 12, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They don’t want to become politically active because they are afraid for their children. And I understand where they are... View Article
May 5, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am ready to pay the price of my choices, but the thing is there are other people who pay... View Article
May 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You see injustice and then you are moved by that.
April 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
One acts with overconfidence. If your life has been quiet you cannot imagine that your life can change.
June 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The human rights defender isn’t always someone who is privileged, or studied how to become a defender.
July 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The law is absurd. Human rights exist on paper; they’re not for real.
May 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We’re not looking to be protagonists or to serve our own interests.
August 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Many become alcoholic and withdrawn.
October 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You risk too much for the cause that you are working for.
November 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The naïve that want to change the world.
August 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We usually work until we burn out.
March 30, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You can never feel safe in a tyrant-ruled state.
November 27, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It was true what she said about dying. There is a corporeal footprint. We as women were denied to live... View Article
January 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People respect us very deeply. They know what we are doing and they are sympathetic.
January 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
After realising I had not experienced direct violence, I considered myself lucky.
May 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am committed to the work, I am committed to myself, and I am committed to the people.
July 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Some give up. They feel there is no need of being an activist.
January 26, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel people feel the need for civil society but they are afraid to approach.
June 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
My wellbeing is fundamental.
April 27, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I have chosen this political life a long time ago, and paid the price and was imprisoned twice.
April 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I do not want to die now, but I know that I will die struggling.
October 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You go to your friends or you crawl in bed or you go party until you forget what happened.
January 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I find tranquility in being alone with myself.
January 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I received big support from my relatives, my mother and sister. One of my friends came and accompanied me at... View Article
November 2, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The guerrilla implements a policy of war, every day. They invade, displace and sack our lands.
May 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
How can we use our individual abilities to help our collective goals, so people within the place started to bond... View Article
May 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
All is part of our choice.
May 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
To stop me from doing my work is to stop me from being myself.
April 4, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I was threatened.
March 23, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I have chosen this path myself, but my family didnÕt, so all the time I fear that my family might... View Article
October 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I have been a victim of physical violence from people on all sides.
May 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
How could I say I did not want to be there?
June 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If I’m not ok, I can’t do my work. I can’t be who I am.
January 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I listened without being intimidated.
July 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
On the one hand you are vulnerable; on the other, you are blamed and [violence] becomes ‘natural’.
February 3, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Human rights defenders are exposed at every time to suffer the worst atrocities. You can know that consciously. That is... View Article
April 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We extol the role of sacrifice.
January 4, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There are people who know who we are and what we do, they know our role well, but these people... View Article
September 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I ran and I did not stop. I did not talk to anyone, my adrenaline was up. I lost him,... View Article
April 9, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I think that we are naive, we want to think that we are in a democracy.
January 21, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are an obstacle.
April 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are extremists in our relation to the revolution.
January 30, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They see us as entitled brats, we are never satisfied. We only look at the negative, always angry.
December 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Gay, an agent and a traitor, weird, vain and wastes their time and energy instead of working in a good... View Article
April 3, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We do not always take steps to protect ourselves.
August 30, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You risk your own emotional and physical security and stability for the cause, and really the problem is, very few... View Article
January 19, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Society is ashamed of us.
February 20, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We gay activists are highly vulnerable due to our sexual practices.
January 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We share tools with them and they share us their experience.
July 1, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We have to protect ourselves. It’s a question of trying to survive.
March 11, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
What can one to do prevent something when they don’t know where the threat might come from, or when, or... View Article
May 19, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The general public, of course, thinks we are foreign agents and spies, and that we harming our country’s reputation.
January 2, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Merely talking and keeping busy with other people, working with people who are similar to you, who think like you.
October 30, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
On one side the human rights defender is a super hero, and on the other he or she is very... View Article
May 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We feel that we are on “jihad” of human rights.
October 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I was re-victimized.
December 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I wish my parents understood what I do, and I did not have to lie. No one likes to live... View Article
March 22, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Not safe at all.
May 20, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You walk down the street and people point at you saying you are a traitor or a spy.
January 1, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You have to go out, have fun, do things. Be in a relationship.
March 19, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Wherever you think there’s no risk, it’s where it is. You can’t control everything.
October 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If you go to a social space and say that you are a human rights defender, the reaction often is:... View Article
April 22, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You can be easily detained because you publish reports documenting violations with numbers.
December 27, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I was arrested while I was voting. It was in my village, and they were trying to break me. Like,... View Article
August 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It gets tiring. I would like to be away from here. There is so much social injustice.
December 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
As a woman, I am not welcome to be walking on the streets, especially in a place like where I... View Article
November 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They see a dreamer.
May 2, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Right now there are alliances of activists with the political parties in power. This generates insecurity for me.
July 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
He told me that he would let me go if I have sex with him. I did not have another... View Article
December 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They see you as a threat in their lives.
August 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am a small step away from a nervous breakdown.
November 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They see us as a threat.
March 3, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In the context that we are living in, there is no security plan that could work.
July 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We will remain enemies of the state. As a result, we will be considered enemies by certain factions of the... View Article
February 23, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Threats by phone: “Hey, you! You want to be a hero, huh. We’ll see where you will escape.”
May 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes you do not want to continue due to health and mental problems, but it is difficult to go back.
August 1, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I think activists know that once they are in the custody of the police they have very limited measures to... View Article
May 18, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Police presence in the street, like informers or even a police unit car…any form of Ministry of Interior representation makes... View Article
March 18, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We received threats.
February 15, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am especially afraid of an acid attack; this is very common against women. In the street I am always... View Article
October 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The state is against us.
October 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I was beaten.
October 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It wasn’t easy at first. We would just cry at first. The first few trainings that we had we just... View Article
April 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A person is not aware. Not aware of the loopholes in his/her life or actions that can be a gate... View Article
January 12, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
When you talk to a taxi driver, when he starts to curse at human rights, then you know that media... View Article
April 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We think since we work in human rights, that we act in a righteous or good way, then nothing is... View Article
September 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is a stigma.
March 20, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
you can be exposed to vulnerability
February 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It is a very tight circle of people. Mostly, we know each other, we have heard of whateach other’s work... View Article
July 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I decided to clean my documents at home, and I shredded a lot of personal letters, diaries and postcards. I... View Article
June 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are all in our right minds, we all have our five senses, we are not crazy.
June 3, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We might be defeated but the regime will never go back in time and take the people’s interest in public... View Article
December 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes you are so overwhelmed by this work, you even forget yourself.
May 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I realised that if I had to take care of others I had to take into account my well-being.
June 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
My work is a part of my life at the deepest level.
October 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There was an organized campaign to demonize human rights organizations and threaten us. They kind of succeeded in this with... View Article
September 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is a stigma, even if culture has changed a little bit.
November 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We were very upset.
June 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I considered it a success that these people now know that the new law regarding demonstrations is against them.
February 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
As random and unstructured as it is, it is very connected.
October 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The regime is openly fighting civil society, fighting us, fighting anything related to creativity and thinking. They want to monopolize... View Article
April 3, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I was really scared.
October 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We were always the target of the attacks of all the ruling regimes in the last years.
November 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If we could just achieve some space for sharing with family, for hobbies and recreation, to disconnect our heads a... View Article
September 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There’s this perspective of us as an evil, because it’s people that take what the radio, television or mass media... View Article
June 27, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In order to do our job professionally, we need to separate our personal feelings from our practice.
July 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In this State, you are guilty until you are proven innocent.
February 16, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I was afraid to leave. I knew that I was at risk. That’s why I stayed inside for a year,... View Article
January 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
When we find something for which we are recognised, we can not let go of that.
October 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It is a small community, so people are close to each other, and they interfere with your life, comment on... View Article
January 3, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We were fighting the regime, and there was still a use of extreme force from the security agencies, but the... View Article
July 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our contribution to society is always questioned, obstructed and even repressed and criminalised.
February 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Between us we can build a solution in the conflict.
May 17, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel astonished that people went back to these thoughts after there was a time when we felt proud to... View Article
March 12, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You are always reminded that you are at risk.
May 3, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I had to leave my daughter with her father when she was little. We are separated. I sent her to... View Article
November 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You feel abandoned.
February 27, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Right after the revolution, the society was more open to our community; I could very easily tell my neighbors that... View Article
March 17, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is fear, when one is facing risk.
March 27, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They use family as a card against me. Because if they defame you, your family members will pressure you to... View Article
February 7, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I received lots of SMS texts with messages containing death threats.
May 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I do not want an homage for myself; I only believe in work.
December 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are beaten when the community are standing by and watching.
May 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We had to fight to be accepted. It took a long time but I never gave up.
December 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The community itself expects so much from you.
January 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
For those who know our work, they pay respect to us. They welcome us in villages and everywhere. So people... View Article
October 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I was beaten and raped.
July 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am angry because we cannot defend and promote rights in secure and free conditions.
January 30, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I always tell the women what we are doing is strengthening ourselves a bit more each day.
September 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes I cannot sleep for my work rhythm.
March 28, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
To feel safe is not to be threatened all the time. It is not normal.
February 26, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I constantly feel threatened, by the state security.
February 25, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am now paranoid that local people can report you. They can harm you by reporting you or even assault... View Article
February 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People know that we work to protect the rights of the people: right to life, democracy, the right to economy,... View Article
May 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I realised that it was important to maintain my nucleus. This makes me strong.
February 6, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You cannot stop your mind away from the terror fantasies, when that is related to your beloved ones.
July 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
National security is for me an umbrella for groups that are not only threats but abusers, in a balance of... View Article
December 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I think that prioritizing mental wellbeing is a new concept. At the end of the day the civil society is... View Article
January 16, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
My family thinks it means that I am against the State.
February 19, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They were robbed at their office and they were scared.
April 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is also a moment in which bravery comes in and if you have a heart and conviction you stay... View Article
September 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I was beaten, too.
March 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
HRDs are like angels.
April 8, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I felt unsafe.
July 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes we deal with emotional disdain and arrogance towards society, saying that, “You did this to yourselves.”
January 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I never felt judged; I was taught that even if I fell down I could get up again.
April 1, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Having made these denouncements has made me very vulnerable and exposed in the streets.
June 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I would not like to complain without doing anything.
January 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The family is a source of security.
August 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We fall sick and we don’t know why.
January 11, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
When you are working in human rights, you need publicity and you need people to support you, and you need... View Article
November 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People are exhausted. That is not sustainable.
September 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I was kept there for 7 days.
November 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our sentimentalism is nonsense.
April 6, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If you claim your rights, there are ways in which you or your community are threatened, often indirectly.
August 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Fighting with my family weakened me.
October 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The imprisonment verdicts are getting closer to our circles.
April 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You can never feel safe in a tyrant-ruled state.
August 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Isolating oneself: you can’t be threatened if there is nobody to threaten you.
October 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Some people view me as working against the state.
September 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
This process is violent, exhausting.
October 27, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In many circles, a defender is thought of as a person from the Left, in conflict with the system, inclined... View Article
June 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Even if I am not here, I left something.
September 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They accused the HRD as secular, pluralist, liberal, imperialist.
February 3, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Now that women are united, we are able to do protests and organize strikes better.
February 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I personally believe that out there, there are still millions who believe in the revolution.
July 31, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I once reported a driver for sexual harassment, and I could not, because the police believed that I was trying... View Article
January 3, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The situation is getting worse because the regime doesn’t want us.
February 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I believe that there is some support to this kind of work.
March 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A hero.
September 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are revoltosos.
July 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We don’t enjoy normal things in our lives, and it creates a cycle of pain and rage of which we... View Article
December 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In the government’s view, we are people who use human rights as a tool to criticise the government.
March 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are not aware of our own security and more concerned for the security of the victims whom we assist.
September 1, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Everything is moved by money. Even if you are very spiritual and free, one cannot escape.
August 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Risk is also related with my emotional state.
March 16, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
One quotidian risk is stigmatisation. If you are not careful enough to know who is the adequate person that should... View Article
February 24, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
All the people who I saw as powerful, individuals in large organizations are no longer there.
October 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We have reached a stage where everyone is insulted/defamed. So feeling numb and ignoring it is the best way to... View Article
December 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There are many people working on human rights, but they do not understand that they are part of human rights... View Article
March 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel that I am egoistic if I always thinking of myself.
June 30, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
My family is everything, but I find it difficult to imagine leaving my work. In the end, my family would... View Article
February 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Some friends supported me by telling me that I am doing good.
February 5, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There are certain things that I do not tell, not even to my son.
February 1, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People often only approach us when they have a problem. When they need something.
June 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Work is something difficult, not related to money, but if I do not do it I feel bad.
December 31, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Most of people have a distorted idea about human rights because they do not really know what exactly the work... View Article
May 10, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I will feel safer when public policy is created.
August 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Repression opens wounds that should be healed collectively.
November 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We don’t have a culture of seeing a psychologist, having therapy. It is expensive, too.
March 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Very strong people look up to them to face the ogres of the world.
March 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They see you as an important ally.
May 1, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Insecurity is generated by some places; in particular, dark streets I do not know.
August 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People started getting mental breakdowns. they were mentally destroyed by making two revolutions, then going back to the stage before... View Article
November 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There was a mixture of acceptance and rejection.
May 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am feeling more grounded.
June 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Having values to guide you is extremely important, so that you are not easily corruptible.
March 14, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I felt vulnerable.
March 7, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Some people believe that no matter what security measures you take the ruling regime will hurt you if they want... View Article
July 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am afraid we will be frustrated, and one day will choose other way, which contradicts our previous values.
February 12, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They have a capacity to dig deep in personal lives, get information, pictures, abuse, threat, impose, falsify information, basically end... View Article
March 9, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is always the threat of how my work would be interpreted by the people who don’t understand what I... View Article
April 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
For us nothing, for all everything.
November 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We need energy to help other people.
February 9, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
My deepest fear is being killed, but I fear more sexual assaults.
June 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Without conviction and values it is very easy to switch sides.
April 1, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Risk is not recognised as it becomes quotidian.
May 6, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We have no idea what the public thinks, even with all the polling and surveying, even by the most professional... View Article
November 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They beat me: they beat my glutes, my legs and my spine.
March 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They are happy with what we are doing.
August 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I felt depressed.
April 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I cannot say no to families.
February 13, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You are dealing with a regime who would not care about evidence if they wanted to get you.
December 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is a lack of solidarity in the human rights movement; fragmentation and historical betrayal.
September 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I think the public does not understand why we do what we do. From where do we get money? Is... View Article
October 3, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our lives are violated all the time.
June 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Each time I go to a community and they ask for my help. This makes me more committed.
January 22, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We aren’t given the importance that we deserve. We are a group of people that, historically, have been discriminated against,... View Article
April 18, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The constant worry of my family regarding my involvement in politics.
March 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is one sector, the one whom you help, who sees you as the savior.
April 17, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Only those close to you know, and they are the ones who matter, yet it is not a good thing.
May 11, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It would make me feel safe if the State abandoned its politicking and clientalism.
February 8, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If I am threatened in a specific place I might consider relocation.
February 18, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our phones at home, the office, our cellphones are hacked.
March 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The communities say things like that we are their saviors, or that we give them strength.
May 1, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I had to confront them alone.
July 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our struggle is useless.
January 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Things are calmer now, so I feel better there now.
March 1, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We have popular support which we sometimes sense more acutely in social media platforms and random offers of support than... View Article
April 7, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Being out of my center makes me feel unsafe.
January 10, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
What it seems generally is that there are two main factions, and both of them hate us.
January 5, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They think of them as unrealistic dreamers.
April 25, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I will feel safer when the police address cases of discrimination.
January 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I stayed calm, I did not use abusive language, I try to make them understand why I am doing this.
June 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The victim sees the defender as a hero.
October 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The current offensive they are launching against us can take very severe forms starting from psychological trauma to the point... View Article
March 10, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You put a plan if you think there is logic or law, that if you go somewhere you make sure... View Article
April 2, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You need to find a place in this world to be accepted.
December 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The government and government agencies view us as irritants who only talk about the ills of the government.
November 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People fear us because they think we are powerful.
January 7, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are seen as belonging to western culture.
February 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
This sense of solidarity is the most important thing for me than anything else.
June 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I want to continue working for helping the families.
August 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I recently started to come back to fieldwork and research, however, in every interview I conduct I feel I was... View Article
January 25, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You feel ashamed, but you don’t want to give in.
June 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Change won’t come before the state sees human rights not merely as a tool used by other nations to pressure... View Article
March 31, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Being a human rights defender makes you really visible, and this makes it easier to receive attacks or threats.
January 31, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It’s not about heroes. It’s a network of people.
January 8, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are seen as irreligious, immoral, angry at everything from God to society to the state.
August 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
What makes it even more difficult is our knowledge that if we go to trial, the trial will more than... View Article
November 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
That our struggle is useless, that our sentimentalism is nonsense and that nobody can take us seriously.
May 9, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel uncertain and fearful.
September 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They say I do the police work.
April 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I will die doing this.
November 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We were demonized as “guerrillas”.
May 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We need to look inside ourselves, the collectives and our social movements in order to give time, resources, analysis and... View Article
June 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I don’t feel like a victim of anything. I am just a person that works.
April 30, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Even though the situation is getting worse with each day, the most amazing thing is that no one is afraid... View Article
February 22, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Some of them go to live with relatives or friends when their security is threatened.
April 12, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We don’t have the knowledge on how or the technology to protect ourselves.
March 27, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People? They think we are their salvation. That we will save them.
May 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The feeling of defeat does not mean losing faith in the cause.
March 15, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
On the one hand you are vulnerable; on the other you are blamed and [violence] becomes ‘natural’.
September 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They seem like an obstacle.
February 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We believe that we’re not the main actor, that we’re a small part that allows the actor to build their... View Article
November 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Organisations spend money on other things, big conferences that have no impact on the community, but when you ask for... View Article
March 8, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The enormous defamation by the media, subordinate to the state or subordinate to the regime or subordinate to the apparatus... View Article
November 3, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The paramilitaries are interested in taking control.
January 14, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
For the multinationals we are an obstacle. So for them, we are nothing good.
October 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are gays, we defend LGBTI, we distort the country’s image abroad.
February 27, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I don’t feel secure at all. I have no contacts.
April 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The present is for sacrifice and struggle.
February 4, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I will be judged for my life.
September 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It makes me feel better when something goes well, although it’s been awhile that things don’t go well because they’re... View Article
February 11, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Some people recommend leaving the country for a couple of years until things calm down.
July 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They have become robots, asleep.
September 2, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Human rights only work for the bad guys.
July 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Once I lost the hope in my country, I stopped believing in God. I felt sick.
September 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People who want to portray their states and statesmen in a negative way.
January 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There are certain people that think that the risk we face, because of the job we do in that kind... View Article
August 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If you just work with your emotions and you don’t pay attention to the political part, the construction of new... View Article
March 21, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
At night I canÕt feel secure very well.
August 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are in the worst emotional situation. I think the real success for the regime is that they managed to... View Article
October 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We were shot at in our car.
November 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I have been ostracized.
March 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People see you as a saviour. They want you to save them.
June 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I think being a human rights defender is a very privileged position. Human rights defenders go on to defend their... View Article
November 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I’ve always said that this is a living war. It’s not something that we talk about in the past. It’s... View Article
November 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I did not pay enough attention to my health with my family.
August 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There are no human rights in the presence of terrorism.
March 29, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We do not know that it could happen to us.
April 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes people are very passionate in collective work and things can get out of control. There are a lot of... View Article
June 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The organizations that we are a part of…take care of you and protect you. They are like your family.
May 4, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I did not know what to do and was confused.
April 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes you put your life at risk because you believe that no one should have to remain quiet.
January 15, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I think it’s sad when police and public functionaries, whose job it is to protect us and guarantee that we... View Article
March 5, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Many of those who were active have completely stopped their efforts because of the fear of being imprisoned.
April 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We reached this stage where the threat became part of your life, as if it is a friend; you deal... View Article
March 25, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The general atmosphere, the insistence on not admitting there are violations.
July 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
When you are emotionally hit, one is broken. How can we continue?
July 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes you do not want to continue due to health and mental problems, but it is difficult to go back.
June 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel that I am a defender, even though I do not receive money for my work.
February 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If we engage with groups of people on specific issues we can rebuild bridges with them.
December 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Even our own families, when they see the image the media presents of our field, become suspicious of our work... View Article
November 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes people think we want to be martyrs or that we want to be notorious.
May 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I protest but I also propose things for structural change.
April 30, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I’m trying not to worry my family.
May 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I believe that equality and justice will solve everything.
August 27, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There were so many cases that said I reached depression because of what I have experienced.
August 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I don’t need money, I need psychological help.
December 3, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People who use people to get their own way — opportunists.
February 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are lucky to have a loving supportive team even on a personal level, so you felt supported.
February 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Within our own organization, we are respected and people care about us.
July 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I have not helped enough people.
May 3, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We receive threats, harassment that affects our internal peace.
January 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Human rights defenders have a good image. We are seen as a necessary part of a democracy.
December 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Common people hate us in general.
May 15, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Access to information and access to tools would help.
March 2, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I keep creating answers in my mind in case I got arrested and interrogated. But I don’t think I’ve reached... View Article
February 1, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
My children always want to know what’s going on. They worry about me. In the end it’s a source of... View Article
August 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The corporeal impacts are cantered in the shoulders, stomach, genitals, decreasing of libido. When do we ask defenders about sexual... View Article
January 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Collective presence: being alone is definitely much more risky, starting the minute you leave the house as soon as you... View Article
February 17, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Many times they may have had family members killed, or even their entire family killed.
March 1, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel unsafe because there are unsafe people even within the civil organizations. These people are supposed to support you,... View Article
September 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They are seen as the people who are against the government.
September 3, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I have received a lot of criticism.
February 2, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
No one does human rights work alone. Human rights work is done collectively.
July 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It is exhausting.
April 10, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They did not tell me everything they thought.
October 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You have a media that says all the time things like human rights people are traitors or receiving foreign funds,... View Article
February 2, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Really, there is a lack of appreciation for such commitment. And many people prefer not to sacrifice so much.
January 18, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Politicians don’t do anything for this region.
February 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There has to be someone, at least two people who know where I am, where I am going, who I... View Article
July 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
All this confidence that was built after the revolution between us and people is now destroyed.
November 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You are immediately accused of being communist, guerrilla.
August 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our feeling of defeat is one of the main reasons we are not enthusiastic about security, as we are demotivated... View Article
December 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The community perceives you know everything. They don’t expect you not to be aware.
March 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
When I saw the injustice and violence that was going on, I started reacting.
April 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In order to continue in our work we have to somehow ignore risks.
April 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You think you are a superhero, that you have all the tools, that we can save and change the world.
December 1, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People who don’t have work to do, who are in the streets doing nothing.
March 3, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If the training was you need to take care of the others as you take care of yourself, but the... View Article
February 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
On Facebook, we share material about other defenders’ problems, to make sure they will share ours when we are under... View Article
April 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Each time there is a violation of rights, or each time something unfair happens, it just makes me more committed.
December 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People don’t understand that all human beings, as long as they’re doing something in defending various rights and talking on... View Article
September 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Trouble-maker, puppets of the West, yeah.
December 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They are seen as the people who don’t want good things to happen.
May 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I do not want to die. I have a lot of things to do.
May 8, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Government protection measures can actually raise the level of risk.
March 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You are a mouthpiece to other people. You fight for the rights of those who can’t fight for their rights... View Article
August 3, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In the last year, many activists quit working in NGOs, as they are under the threat of not only losing... View Article
September 20, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our families fear that what we are doing is dangerous and they pressure us to stop the work and look... View Article
January 20, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There was a threat against my life. There was no preventive action; not even the judges pay attention.
January 17, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Oftentimes citizens are not interested in knowing if their rights are being violated or not.
March 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In the communities that we work with and victims of violations, we are seen as an ally. Our presence calms... View Article
October 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I think if I stopped fighting for this, things would be worse.
April 15, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel insecure on the specific policy.
September 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
He forced me to have sex without protection. I refused, he beat.
April 5, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If they are part of the government, I don’t trust them. The State makes me feel much less safe. I... View Article
May 2, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I had to give up my daughter to do the work I do.
May 31, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is nothing secretive about what I do.
May 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We under-estimate what it does to us.
March 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Some people view us as heroes.
March 22, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People don’t know the easy tools that can assist them, and I think that we could do that as a... View Article
October 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Some of us are being personally attacked in the media.
December 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
After all this distraction and deviation from the path of the revolution, most people lost confidence in any person talking... View Article
June 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The work is like a calling.
June 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
International solidarity is not as effective as it used to be. I feel that there is no strong backup when... View Article
June 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
For the police, they remain resistant and suspicious. If I turn up at their post, they harden their faces. Well,... View Article
January 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I think what helps me feel calm is that, although my work is important, it’s not my entire life.
April 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We want to work and ignore the risk because we understand that we have to face it.
May 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I realised that my real strength is my family.
March 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People tend to put more effort and time in other’s rights and lives than their own.
January 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The more there is media coverage, the more secure I feel.
August 31, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes I wake up and feel depressed or with anxiety and insecurities.
January 31, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are traitors, and we harm the country.
December 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
This work can leave you without a life and family.
September 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Criminals.
December 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I lost my communication skills with my family because they see me as weird. They do not understand why I... View Article
February 10, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our vilification has increased and during the last couple of years it has reached new terrifying heights.
February 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The following governments respected us.
January 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel secure because I have friends who have a common vision.
July 27, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The government doesn’t want to hear us. The system itself – the country, the politicians, the administrator – don’t want... View Article
November 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our contribution to society is always questioned, obstructed and even repressed and criminalised.
September 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They say that I receive money from the prosecutors office.
April 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes we see women human rights defenders that cannot stop. One of them told me: “If I stop, I will... View Article
April 26, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I had to physically protect the corpse of one of my friends to ensure that the autopsy report comes out... View Article
March 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They are people who defend our fate, our rights.
September 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our contribution to society is always questioned, obstructed and even repressed and criminalised.
February 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They are grateful for what I do. They admire me and respect me. I think it’s great to gain respect... View Article
February 21, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
When violence comes from within, from the closer sphere – such as sentimental companions, companions of the same organisations, machismo... View Article
January 24, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We always feel guilty that we cannot do everything.
December 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We need a space for ourselves as people.
January 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
With women I feel solidarity.
October 2, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Media is against us.
January 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We feel very potent when we find a space for recognition, because we have been neglected of that recognition.
April 24, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I don’t want her to know that my life is at risk.
August 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You just resign yourself to things happening, and don’t bother reporting.
May 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are not disposable things.
January 27, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If you conducted a survey on a random sample of ten, regardless of their political views, I believe you will... View Article
March 2, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
When you work in the light it makes you feel safe and supported.
January 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel safe at home; I sleep well.
January 23, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We start by thinking about our children, our families, our communities; the last person we think about is ourselves.
December 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A traitor, or westernized.
May 13, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They keep quiet due to fear.
November 30, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People who are idle.
December 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I didn’t personally take steps to protect myself.
September 30, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If you come out and share an experience, you do not get support. You get bombarded by the spotlight. That... View Article
March 6, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Many of those who were active have completely stopped their efforts because of the fear of media scandals.
March 13, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I do not want to die for my work. I want to die as an old person.
April 19, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The level of violations that a person has to deal with is bigger than his/her capacity.
July 30, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel once they get you, it’s game over and there is not much to do from your side.
August 2, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If I got tortured I would probably give up and give away the access to my data to reduce torture.
February 28, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel insecure thinking that any harm might affect my family, because it is all in the hand of the... View Article
July 6, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Pain is like a cancer but should be maintained on your side. Hate withers you, love sometimes end up in... View Article
November 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Having a space for feeling good and wellbeing was not seen as important.
May 27, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is a political conviction that makes you continue, knowing that your work is necessary.
April 26, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It makes me feel insecure when the police and authorities do not take action.
April 23, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
On a personal level, you have people around who are close to you who also feel threatened, so they project... View Article
October 1, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In the eyes of people, we are funded, agents, traitors and conspire with foreign agencies.
August 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I have been in depression, in crisis, under surveillance day and night.
April 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I have been reckless with my health.
January 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We had something in common with society; we may have disagreed about a few details but largely we agreed together.
February 18, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The state has offered me measures of protection.
March 31, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It makes me feel better when something goes well, although it’s been awhile that things don’t go well because they’re... View Article
April 29, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I have tried to be very careful with my own risk.
October 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We hinder the wheel of production, and prevent the country from progressing because we defame it abroad.
March 5, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Someone that can claim things that human beings need: right to water, to air, to food, to have a patrimony.
April 14, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel insecure about the current condition. The political issue is unstable. We do not have good governance.
November 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They do not understand.
January 2, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Safety and security for me means limitation. To stay protected and safe all the time, you need to take some... View Article
October 31, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Once I asked a police officer to respect me and respect my way of being. He told me to be... View Article
June 2, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are not doing anything in secrecy.
May 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
This is the choice of life. We have to be strong.
January 28, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes they say good things about human rights, but the majority don’t.
April 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I hope that my patience is worth it, and there are results.
February 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I should be humble, there are people working more than me, with more problems than me.
September 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are beaten when the community are standing by and watching.
April 13, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We don’t know how to take care of our security.
April 11, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel insecure about the safety of my kids.
January 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Watching comedies is helping me so much.
February 14, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
As an activist, I can be threatened with death.
May 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am not paranoid.
April 27, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
What makes me feel so insecure is that they don’t act in a timely manner.
June 15, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I believe in what I do, and if I do not do it I will not be myself.
April 20, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We also get very nervous when we book in public places and security forces cancel our events, which mess up... View Article
November 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
When we tell them that we want to talk about human rights, about human rights defenders, the first thing they... View Article
March 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The voice of the voiceless.
May 30, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It seems natural to pay the price for what I believe in.
January 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I feel secure because I have friends outside of my region and abroad who support me.
February 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If anything happens to you, you know there are people who have the strength – not necessarily to make a... View Article
June 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Only people who don’t bother to do their human rights work can have the time and money to pamper themselves.
April 16, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
To ease the stress feeling, I will do some of my hobbies. I usually read and watch film.
April 28, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I do not know all the tools to defend.
December 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I wish my family supported me more. I exert a lot of effort to convince them that it is my... View Article
August 8, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The justice system is a a very interlaid structure of power, with no exception. There are exceptions of people who... View Article
December 2, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People who don’t know what they want in society.
January 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In a sense we have created a ghetto for ourselves where we practice our beliefs more freely than the wider... View Article
April 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If someone is dying and you’re their only chance to live, then the work is more important than you as... View Article
April 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I can die, but I am prepared.
March 19, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are more concerned about other people’s security.
November 1, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Other people associate human rights defenders with the left, and this is often associated with the insurgency. Because of this,... View Article
October 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Many leaders have been stigmatized or threatened in their neighborhoods.
May 13, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If you decide to continue your work, you are compelled to deal with it.
August 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Many of those who were active have completely stopped their efforts because of pressure from family members.
January 29, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They are affected by the picture that the ruling regime has drawn of us.
February 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I love myself.
February 11, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
What is really important is love – to love and respect, value and have enough self-esteem to do it; to... View Article
August 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You can’t expect what the state would do. Everything at a certain point seems pointless.
March 21, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I still believe that HRDs can still rebuild this trust if they focus on the human rights work.
July 29, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I couldn’t handle more of torture testimonies. I got what is called “vicarious traumatization,” where you get a trauma from... View Article
April 24, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
My mother laughed, told them that the dam was going to drown her anyways.
September 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is a stigma for being an activist.
February 14, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Safety depends on a more grounded education, of the same quality amongst all levels of society.
February 10, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
They want us to be there. They call us whenever there is any sort of problem, thinking that we will... View Article
December 30, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In a sense we have created a ghetto for ourselves where we practice our beliefs more freely than the wider... View Article
August 16, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am almost burnt-out.
March 24, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If you criticize – not even oppose – the state, you are under the threat that your personal freedom may... View Article
January 6, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are seen as agents to the west, funded by it, or have a secret agenda, and corrupted.
March 30, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I do not want to position myself in the line of fire.
April 21, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
You always feel a sense of danger, the only difference is the degree, and your own assessment of whether the... View Article
July 9, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We face judges who issue verdicts before the trial begins based on their preconceived personal opinions of the defendants.
April 28, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our emotional wellbeing is a luxury compared to the type of violations we deal with.
March 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People will think that human rights defenders are the supermen, superwomen or people who dare to die from high risk... View Article
February 17, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Let’s take care of each other.
January 9, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are seen as permissive in our personal choices; even the conservatives among us in their life choices are seen... View Article
March 4, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our first impulse is to help in everything.
February 23, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I still have hope that as long as you are honest with people, they will believe you at the end.
May 7, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
When a TV presenter publicly accuses me of receiving foreign funds and training youth to topple the regime, my father... View Article
October 12, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
We are one of the permissible and authorized targets to attack for the state media apparatus.
September 7, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sometimes I sleep just four hours a day, or eat once a day.
March 26, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is no law, there is no established rule. The whole thing is subjected to personal, paternalistic, and authoritarian preferences... View Article
March 25, 2000 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If someone has a case of violence or is affected by violence, the first thing that they do as a... View Article
January 1, 2001 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
My family at a certain point asked me when I would become an atheist since I am in the human... View Article