Use of legislation to regulate activities of human rights defenders 2012, para. 37
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- Sexual and reproductive rights defenders thus play a significant role in ensuring respect for women's human rights. Such activities should not be subject to criminal sanctions. Furthermore, States with a legal framework guaranteeing sexual and reproductive rights need to ensure that such legislation is enforced without discrimination. Judicial harassment against sexual and reproductive rights defenders should not be tolerated, and judges and prosecutors have a key role in this regard. The Special Rapporteur also wishes to emphasize that medical and health-care professionals are protected under article 11 of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, according to which everyone has the right to exercise his or her occupation or profession, in compliance with relevant national and international standards of occupational and professional conduct or ethics, including human rights standards.
- 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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/292, para. 37.
- Paragraph number
- 37
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