Global trends in risks and threats facing human rights defenders 2015, para. 80
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- Most defenders stressed the lack of visibility and accessibility of the Special Rapporteur; only a minority had been contact with the mandate holder. The defenders insisted on the need to strengthen their ties with the Special Rapporteur, especially on the ground. In that connection, they expressed their appreciation of the fact that they had been consulted by the Special Rapporteur during the regional meetings he had attended in order to enable defenders unable to travel to meet him. A very large number of defenders expressed their wish to see the Special Rapporteur visit their country, either on official mission or in response to invitations extended by universities, regional networks or embassies. The defenders also brought up the lack of publicity and dissemination of the Declaration of 1998 on human rights defenders (General Assembly resolution 53/144, annex), the failure to translate the Declaration into all languages so as to make it available to all, and the limits imposed on certain working methods of the mandate holder. By way of example, many defenders mentioned the abstruse nature of certain procedures, especially the communications system, which mattered because its purpose is to enable individual cases of human rights violations against defenders to be submitted to the States concerned.
- 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
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/217, para. 80.
- Paragraph number
- 80
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