Violations committed against defenders by non-State actors 2010, para. 8
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- Also of concern are attacks committed against defenders by non-State armed groups which are directly or indirectly instigated by States. Information received by the Special Rapporteur indicates that certain States have allegedly been involved in violations committed against defenders by providing non-State armed groups with weapons and/or logistical support or by condoning their actions, explicitly or implicitly. In certain cases, States have also used non-State armed groups to commit human rights violations against defenders; such violations include killings. In one such case, the Special Rapporteur was "notably disturbed to learn that some information illegally obtained by DAS [Department of National Security] had been transmitted to paramilitary groups in the form of a hit list of defenders, which had led to the killing of four human rights defenders" (A/HRC/13/22/Add.3, para. 135). In certain regions, although States claimed that certain armed groups had been demobilized, former members of those groups were allegedly still operating under the supervision of the central authorities. Information received by the Special Rapporteur indicates that in certain instances, former members of paramilitaries continue to threaten and attack human rights defenders.
- 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)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2010
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the UNGA (2010), A/65/223, para. 8.
- Paragraph number
- 8
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