Net Results: UN award for Irish human rights group Front Line Defenders is well-deserved

March from Famine Memorial marks centenary of South African leader’s birth

Front Line Defenders’ patron lavishes praise on those who work ‘in the face of repression’

He has long seen himself as a victim of widespread media and political efforts to do him down

Biggest lobbyists at EU level include Facebook, Ibec, Irish Farmers’ Association and Ryanair

Chinese minority activist was imprisoned for life two years ago for ‘inciting separatism’

Front Line Defenders says Ireland slow to raise concerns with countries such as China and Ethiopia

Almost half of activists killed were linked to defence of indigenous people’s, says group

Leading Syrian human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni to address Dublin event

Controversial proposals would restrict ability to keep addresses, email contacts and phone numbers private

Abdulemann arrested and tortured for ‘broadcasting false news’

Of key concern is, who can get at your data?

Bruce Schneier tells Dublin audience secure web is in everyone’s interest

Bruce Schneier believes governments, driven by fear, are going the wrong way about tackling terrorism

Nabeel Rajab urges Ireland ‘to fight for democracy around the world’

Tens of thousands take part in candlight vigil in Hong Kong

Pakistani women’s group win Front Line Defenders Award for work in tribal region

Social media is the peaceful weapon of choice for a plucky Syrian community

Twenty medics and health professions will learn fate today on charges against them