Environmental human rights defenders 2016, para. 30

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The assassination of environmental human rights defenders is only part of the overall violence they face. The submissions received by the Special Rapporteur show that environmental human rights defenders confront numerous threats and violations, including violent attacks and threats to their families, enforced disappearances, illegal surveillance, travel bans, blackmail, sexual harassment, judicial harassment and use of force to dispel peaceful protests. Such violations are committed by State and non-State actors, and take place in the context of the overall stigmatization, demonization and delegitimization of environmental human rights defenders. In some countries, violations are intertwined with the overall climate of criminalization of their work, especially in the context of large-scale development projects (see A/68/262).
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)
  • Environment
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Activists
  • Families
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/281, para. 30.
Paragraph number
30