On the Declaration on human rights defenders 2011, para. 50
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- Additionally, defenders and journalists are often targeted for investigating human rights abuses. They are subjected to threats, attacks and intimidation, and some have been abducted and/or killed. They have also been arrested and detained following the publication of letters calling for the improvement of the human rights situation, for publishing articles online criticizing governmental policies and for denouncing human rights violations. Women journalists and media professionals are also exposed as a result of their work. This group includes women investigative journalists working on human rights-related issues, women columnists advocating human rights reform, women reporters monitoring and reporting violations of human rights, and women bloggers.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the UNGA (2011), A/66/203, para. 50.
- Paragraph number
- 50
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