A/HRC/49/49
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2021
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-ninth session
28 February–1 April 2022
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
At the heart of the struggle: human rights defenders working
against corruption
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
defenders, Mary Lawlor
Summary
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
defenders, Mary Lawlor, analyses the situation of human rights defenders working against
corruption and stresses that protection frameworks applicable to human rights defenders
should apply to them. The report includes examples of the types of threats and structural
difficulties faced by human rights defenders fighting corruption and suggests ways that
relevant stakeholders might act to protect them and to promote their work.
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Reissued for technical reasons on 11 March 2022.
GE.21-19725(E)
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