Human Rights Defenders risk their lives and livelihoods to promote and protect human rights. Opposing government and private abuses often subjects human rights defenders and their families to harassment, detention, interrogations, torture, and the threat of being killed on account of their work. We support individual human rights defenders or organizations at risk by encouraging actions by the U.S. Government and international community to seek their release from detention, the dropping of charges, abatement of threats and harassment, or accountability for violence against defenders.