This year, the Martin Ennals Foundation celebrates the 30^th anniversary of the Martin Ennals Award, a prestigious distinction awarded by ten of the leading human rights organizations in the world. The ceremony in honor of the 2024 Laureates took place in Geneva on November 21^st. The Foundation is now continuing the 2024 festivities with a series of portraits of some of the most outstanding human rights defenders whom the Jury considered. 

Kenia Inés Hernández Montalván is an afroindigenous woman from the State of Guerrero, Mexico. She is of Amuzga ethnicity and has been fighting corporate landgrabs, protecting women’s rights and lending her voice to disenfranchised youth from an early age. After facing death threats by local armed groups, she was forced to relocate to Mexico City. Spuriously accused of armed robbery on highways by the Federal Roads and Bridges Administration (CAPUFE), she has been imprisoned since 18 October 2020 as a result of her vocal human rights work, which has made the Mexican state increasingly uncomfortable.

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