Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 92
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To a greater or lesser degree, all the stakeholders have a special responsibility to follow up communications and cases, but particularly governments, because they are responsible for preventing human rights violations, threats and attacks against human rights defenders and for taking action against impunity by prosecuting those responsible for human rights abuses.
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Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Governance & Rule of Law
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Activists
Year
2015
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Other
Reference
SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/28/63, para. 92.