Violations committed against defenders by non-State actors 2010, para. 35
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- Examples of actions or omissions contravening the State duty of due diligence include failure to provide effective protection to defenders at risk who have documented attacks and threats by non-State actors or who have been granted interim protection measures by regional human rights mechanisms. In relation to the above-mentioned case,9 despite the precautionary measures granted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to the leaders of certain communities, information received by the Special Rapporteur indicates that violence against defenders continues. One of the community leaders of the movement against the mine was shot by unidentified men in July 2010. Failure to prevent violations of the rights of defenders may also include the removal of protection measures without due justification when the original threat is still present and the failure to investigate recurrent attacks and alleged violations 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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2010
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the UNGA (2010), A/65/223, para. 35.
- Paragraph number
- 35
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