Good practices in the protection of human rights defenders 2016, para. 81
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- Human rights education is a long-standing tactic of the human rights movement and should be directed at various audiences, including State officials, professional groups, students and the general public. Rights education can lead not only to a better understanding of a State's human rights obligations, but can also serve as a vehicle for understanding "the relationships that undergird the discourses and actions of human rights violators, human rights protectors, and human rights victims." It can also provide other concrete dividends; for example, training medical staff in human rights could facilitate the collection and presentation of forensic evidence in the prosecution of perpetrators of violence against 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)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/55, para. 81.
- Paragraph number
- 81
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