Urges States to create a safe and enabling environment in which human rights defenders can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, in the whole country and in all sectors of society, including by extending support to local human rights defenders;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
Activists
Year
2013
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Protecting human rights defenders (2013), A/HRC/RES/22/6, OP 2.