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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 126c
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- [National human rights institutions should:] Commit the regional network to which they belong to holding meetings with regional networks of human rights defenders so that together they can plan joint action to protect defenders and promote the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and guidelines on human rights defenders.
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 126b
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- [National human rights institutions should:] Participate in the follow-up to recommendations by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 126a
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- [National human rights institutions should:] Take effective measures to protect human rights defenders when they are in danger;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 125c
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- [The United Nations should:] Ensure that resident coordinators provide human rights defenders who are subjected to threats with systematic support and protection.
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 125b
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- [The United Nations should:] Ensure that specific measures relating to human rights defenders are included in its programmes and activities;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 125a
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- [The United Nations should:] Ensure that all agencies and programmes of the Organization are made more aware of the question of human rights defenders;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124p
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- [Member States should:] Undertake to implement Council resolution 24/24 on reprisals, allowing the designation of a high-level focal point to the United Nations, and, where appropriate, also designate a national focal point responsible for dealing with the question of reprisals at the national and international levels.
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124o
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- [Member States should:] Devote a chapter specifically to the question of human rights defenders in their national or international reports on the human rights situation;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124n
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- [Member States should:] Provide embassies with funds earmarked for human rights defenders and facilitate access by defenders to international funding;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124m
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- [Member States should:] In the case of countries that have adopted guidelines on the protection of human rights defenders, ensure that their embassies undertake a proper assessment of the effectiveness of their implementation;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124l
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- [Member States should:] Undertake to implement and translate into their national language and local languages the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders in order to enable all human rights defenders to obtain access to it;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124k
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- [Member States should:] Ensure that any legislation criminalizing activities in defence of human rights through cooperation with international mechanisms is repealed;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124j
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- [Member States should:] Ensure that acts of intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders who cooperate with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights and with international human rights bodies are firmly and unequivocally condemned;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124i
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- [Member States should:] Ensure that human rights defenders can participate without hindrance in the mechanisms of the United Nations and regional intergovernmental organizations, particularly within the framework of the universal periodic review and reports to the human rights treaty bodies;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124h
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- [Member States should:] Establish a national human rights institution or reform an existing institution in accordance with the Paris Principles and give it a mandate covering the protection and promotion of human rights defenders;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124g
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- [Member States should:] Provide State officials, particularly those who are in direct contact with communities of human rights defenders, with the necessary training on their role and rights and on the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124f
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- [Member States should:] Pay particular attention to the most exposed groups: those who work for economic, social and cultural rights or minority rights; environmental defenders; defenders of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights; women defenders and those who work for women's rights; defenders who work in the area of business and human rights; those who work in an area exposed to internal conflict or a natural disaster; defenders living in isolated regions; and defenders working on past abuses, such as the families of victims of enforced disappearance;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124e
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- [Member States should:] Invite the Special Rapporteur to pay short follow-up visits, either directly or on the occasion of seminars, lectures or panel discussions, in order to enable him to consider the best way of assisting States to implement recommendations;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124d
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- [Member States should:] Extend an open invitation to the Special Rapporteur, allow him to conduct any visit that he wishes to undertake without restricting its duration or scope, and enable him to move around the country, outside the capital, particularly in countries with extensive territories, so that he can meet human rights defenders who are isolated and cannot travel;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124c
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- [Member States should:] Respond more satisfactorily to communications received from the Special Rapporteur, by providing him with any information required, thereby facilitating a better understanding of the situations addressed in such communications and putting a stop to threats or rights violations directed at human rights defenders;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124b
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- [Member States should:] Combat impunity for threats and violations aimed at human rights defenders by mounting impartial enquiries and ensure that their perpetrators stand trial and that victims obtain compensation;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 124a
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- [Member States should:] Ensure that human rights defenders can exercise their functions within a national framework properly supported by the appropriate legislative and regulatory texts, taking into account regional and national specificities, and remove the obstacles that some national laws may place in the path of legitimate activities to promote and protect human rights engaged in by human rights defenders, with a view to providing them with more effective protection;
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 123
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- He intends to publish, at the end of his first three years in the mandate, an assessment of the implementation of his vision and his priorities, together with information on the difficulties and obstacles encountered, and to share this assessment with the members of the Council.
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 122
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- The Special Rapporteur welcomes the extension of his mandate and will bear in mind the preamble and recommendations of resolution 25/18, which he sees as constituting the focus of his work in the future.
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 121
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- This first report to the Council constitutes a road map for the Special Rapporteur to establish a way forward for the activities that he has begun to undertake. The first regional consultations have given him a clear vision of the manner in which he will carry out the task entrusted to him by the Council.
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 120
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- While observing the working rules applying to special procedures mandate holders, the Special Rapporteur intends to interpret his mandate as widely as possible in order to make it as effective as possible, basing his approach on the results obtained by his predecessor and on the knowledge acquired and the working methods used. He means to explore new avenues and innovative working techniques, where that seems appropriate, and to inform the Council of his activities on a regular basis.
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 119
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- The Special Rapporteur confirms his intention to devote a large part of his time and energy to carrying out his work, with a view to serving the cause in which he believes.
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 118
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- The Special Rapporteur intends to engage in specific work in the area of reprisals, on the basis that any person who cooperates with the United Nations or international organizations, or who reports abuse or human rights violations, may be considered a defender, in view of his or her activities to protect rights and freedoms.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 117
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- He wishes to note the need to move to greater oversight and action to ensure respect for the standard-setting agreements and rules of procedure of the United Nations, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which explicitly prohibit reprisals by State and non-State players.
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 116
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- The Special Rapporteur is very mindful of this issue and wishes to help raise the awareness of the international community, particularly as regards the role that the United Nations should play in dealing with the issue and getting States to face up to their responsibility.
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- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
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