A/68/262
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights defenders
Summary
The present report is the sixth and last report submitted by the current Special
Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to the General Assembly, in
accordance with Assembly resolution 66/164 and Human Rights Council resolution
16/5.
Section I of the report contains an introduction. In section II, the Special
Rapporteur provides an initial assessment of her achievements, based on the vision
she presented to the Assembly in 2008. In section III, she looks at the relationship
between large-scale development projects and the activities of human rights
defenders. In section IV, she sets out a human rights-based approach to development
projects that she believes will allow for the meaningful and safe participation of
human rights defenders at all stages of development projects. In section V, she
provides conclusions and makes recommendations to various stakeholders, including
in the context of the post-2015 development agenda.
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