2015 Annual Report: Human Rights Defenders in the Balance
This report highlights some of the main global and regional trends which emerged from Front Line Defenders work in 2014. In 2014,...[the organisation] issued 265 urgent appeals on over 400 human rights defenders at risk; it provided 418 security grants and trained 568 human rights defenders...In Cambodia, protesters were arrested en masse in January during labour rights protests in the garment industry. Police used excessive force that left four civilians dead and 21 injured, demonstrations were banned, and HRDs supporting the workers were arrested and charged...HRDs are exposed to digital attacks, with varying degrees of sophistication, virtually everywhere...[This includes] interception of emails, voice or other types of communication; hacking of websites, blogs, email or social network accounts; the installation of malware or spyware; and the banning of websites.