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Twentieth anniversary and promotion of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2018), para. 25
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- 6. Underlines the value of national human rights institutions, established and operating in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles), 10 in the continued engagement with human rights defenders and in the monitoring of existing legislation and consistently informing the State about its impact on the activities of human rights defenders, including by making relevant and concrete recommendations;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Activists
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2020), para. 21
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- Recalling the report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, 14 noting with concern her findings with regard to attacks against indigenous human rights defenders and her reflections on available prevention and protection measures, and calling upon all States to consider the recommendations contained in the report,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2010), para. 050
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- 38. Stresses the need to ensure respect for the right to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of thought, conscience or belief as enshrined in the Afghan Constitution, in this regard calls for full implementation of the mass media law, while noting with concern the continuing intimidation and violence targeting Afghan journalists and challenges to the independence of the media, condemns cases of the abduction and even killing of journalists by terrorist as well as extremist and criminal groups, and urges that harassment and attacks on journalists be investigated by Afghan authorities and that those responsible be brought to justice;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
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- Activists
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2019), para. 18
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- 15. Further calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the judicial and security branches, to create and maintain, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment in which an independent, diverse and pluralistic civil society can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, and urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to end widespread and serious restrictions, in law and in practice, on the right to freedom of expression and opinion, including in digital contexts, and the right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly, and to end its harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, women ’s and minority rights defenders, labour leaders, students’ rights defenders, environmentalists, academics, film-makers, journalists, bloggers, social media users and social media page administrators, media workers, religious leaders, artists, lawyers and their families and persons belonging to recognized and unrecognized religious minorities and their families, wherever it may occur;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2009), para. 045
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- 34. Stresses the need to ensure respect for the right to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of thought, conscience or belief, while noting with concern recent attempts to limit freedom of expression and to intimidate journalists, and condemns cases of the abduction and even killing of journalists by terrorist as well as extremist and criminal groups;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine (2019), para. 22
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- Condemning the ongoing pressure exerted upon religious minority communities, including through frequent police raids, threats against and persecution of those belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, the Protestant Church, mosques and Muslim religious schools, Greek Catholics, Roman Catholics and Jehovah’s Witnesses, and condemning also the baseless prosecution of dozens of peaceful Muslims for allegedly belonging to Islamic organizations,
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- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
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- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2019), para. 43
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- 27. Notes with great concern the increase in cases of reprisals against indigenous human rights defenders, indigenous peoples’ representatives attending United Nations meetings and United Nations mandate holders working on the rights of indigenous peoples, and expresses its concern at the practice of some countries hosting meetings on indigenous issues of intentionally delaying or denying entry visas to respective United Nations mandate holders;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementing the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms through providing a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and ensuring their protection (2020), para. 42
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- 18. Strongly encourages States to develop and put in place comprehensive, sustainable and gender-responsive public policies and programmes that support and protect human rights defenders at all stages of their work, that ensure effective coordination between relevant institutional actors, including coordination within national and local levels, and address causes of attacks against defenders and barriers against the defence of rights, and that take into account, inter alia, the diverse situations of human rights defenders and the contexts in which they operate, and the intersectional dimensions of violations and abuses against women human rights defenders, indigenous peoples, children, persons belonging to minorities and rural communities;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2013), para. 15
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- (j) Increased persecution and human rights violations against persons belonging to recognized religious minorities, including Christians, Jews, Sufi Muslims, Sunni Muslims and Zoroastrians and their defenders, and noting in particular the widespread arrest and detention of Sufi Muslims and evangelical Christians, including the continued detention of Christian pastors;
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- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine (2020), para. 35
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- Condemning the blocking by the Russian Federation of Ukrainian websites and television channels and the seizure of Ukrainian transmission frequencies in Crimea,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2018), para. 32
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- 19. Notes with deep concern that charges for criminal defamation and other offences have increasingly been used to target journalists, politicians, students and social media users for their peaceful expression, online as well as offline, in particular under section 66 (d) of the Telecommunications Act, the Electronic Transactions Law and provisions of the Penal Code, including section 505 (b), and that the Official Secrets Act, Unlawful Associations Act and the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law continue to be abused to arbitrarily arrest and detain individuals for exercising their rights to freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, and peaceful assembly and association, including on the basis of their ethnicity or political beliefs, and calls for open and participatory legislative processes to repeal or reform those laws in line with the international human rights law obligations of the Government of Myanmar;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementing the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms through providing a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and ensuring their protection (2020), para. 28
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- 4. Urges States to promote a safe and enabling environment, including through the implementation of existing national legislation that is in compliance with international human rights law and, where necessary, through the adoption and implementation of more comprehensive legislative and administrative measures, in which human rights defenders can operate free from hindrance, reprisals and insecurity, ensuring, among other things, the right to take part in the conduct of public affairs and in cultural life, the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and equal access to justice, including to an effective remedy;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Cultural rights and the protection of cultural heritage (2016), para. 17
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- Highlighting the important contribution made by cultural rights defenders involved in the protection of the cultural heritage of all humankind,
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- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Activists
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2004), para. 16
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- (b) The continuing deterioration of the situation with regard to freedom of opinion and expression, especially the increased persecution for the peaceful expression of political views, including arrest and detention without charge or trial; crackdowns by judiciary and security forces against journalists, parliamentarians, students, clerics and academics; and the harsh reactions to student demonstrations, including imprisonment, mistreatment and use of university disciplinary committees against those who participate;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Cultural rights and the protection of cultural heritage (2018), para. 30
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- 10. Calls for the safety and security of cultural rights defenders involved in the protection of cultural heritage to be protected, including by investigating and, where appropriate, bringing to justice anyone alleged to have harmed them;
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- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2005), para. 18
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- (b) The worsening situation with regard to freedom of opinion and expression and freedom of the media, especially the increased persecution for the peaceful expression of political views, including arbitrary arrest and detention without charge or trial; crackdowns by the judiciary and security forces against journalists, parliamentarians, students, clerics and academics; the unjustified closure of newspapers and blocking of Internet sites; the targeted disqualification of large numbers of prospective candidates in the Majlis elections as well as the intimidation and harassment of opposition activists in the run-up to the elections held in February 2004;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Activists
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (2017), para. 11
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- Mindful that domestic law and administrative provisions and their application should facilitate the work of human rights defenders, including by avoiding any criminalization, stigmatization, impediments, obstructions or restrictions thereof contrary to international human rights law,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2016), para. 14
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- 11. Also calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the judicial and security branches, to end widespread and serious restrictions, in law and in practice, on the right to freedom of expression, opinion, association and peaceful assembly, including through the ongoing harassment, intimidation, arbitrary detention and prosecution of, as well as the denial of access to higher education for, political opponents, human rights defenders, women’s and minority rights activists, labour leaders, students’ rights activists, academics, film- makers, journalists, bloggers, social media users, religious leaders, artists, lawyers, recognized and unrecognized religious minorities and their families, and urges the Government to release persons arbitrarily detained for the legitimate exercise of these rights, to consider rescinding unduly harsh sentences, including the death penalty and long-term exile, for exercising such fundamental freedoms and to end reprisals against individuals cooperating with the Uni ted Nations human rights mechanisms;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2017), para. 23
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- 16. Welcomes the early release of political prisoners in accordance with the obligation of the Government of Myanmar to ensure that no one remains in prison because of his or her political or religious beliefs, including those recently detained or convicted, human rights defenders and students, while calling upon the Government to fulfil its commitment to release unconditionally all remaining political prisoners and to provide for the full rehabilitation of former political prisoners, and to amend restrictive laws and to end remaining curbs on exercising the rights to the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, which are essential to ensure a safe and enabling environment, notably for civil society, journalists, human rights defenders, lawyers, environmental and land rights activists and civilians, and expresses concern at reports of the arrest of individuals in relation to the exercise of those rights;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine (2018), para. 14
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- Condemning also the reported serious violations and abuses committed against residents of Crimea, in particular extrajudicial killings, abd uctions, enforced disappearances, politically motivated prosecutions, discrimination, harassment, intimidation, violence, including sexual violence, arbitrary detentions, torture and ill - treatment, in particular to extract confessions, and psychiatric internment, and their transfer or deportation from Crimea to the Russian Federation, as well as reported abuses of other fundamental freedoms, including the freedoms of expression, religion or belief and association and the right to peaceful assembly,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (2019), para. 27
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- 7. Condemns the closing of dozens of print media, the shutdown of radio stations, the banning of television channels and the regular blocking of social media platforms, as well as the detention of journalists and the arbitrary detention of people expressing opinions on social media;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2016), para. 21
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- Recognizing the crucial role of journalists and media workers in the context of elections, including to inform the public about candidates, their platforms and ongoing debates, and expressing serious concern that attacks against journalists and media workers increase during periods of elections,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2014), para. 18
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- (j) Continued harassment, at times amounting to persecution, and human rights violations against persons belonging to recognized religious minorities, including Christians, Jews, Sufi Muslims, Sunni Muslims and Zoroastrians and their defenders, noting in particular the widespread arrest and detention of Sufi Muslims and evangelical Christians, including the continued detention of Christian pastors;
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- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2018), para. 34
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- 21. Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to fulfil its commitment to release unconditionally all remaining political prisoners and to provide for the full rehabilitation of former political prisoners, and to amend restrictive laws and to end remaining curbs on exercising the rights to the freedoms of religion or belief, expression, association and peaceful assembly, which are essential to ensure a safe and enabling environment, notably for civil society, journalists, human rights defenders, lawyers, environmental and land rights activists and civilians, and expresses concern at reports of the arrest of individuals in relation to the exercise of those rights;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Human rights defenders in the context of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2016), para. 10
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- Recognizing also the vital work of human rights defenders in promoting, protecting and advocating the realization of economic, social and cultural rights, and concerned that threats and attacks against human rights defenders, and hindrance of their work, have a negative impact on the realization of these rights, including as they relate to environmental and land issues as well as development,
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- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2015), para. 18
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- (j) Continued harassment, at times amounting to persecution, and human rights violations against persons belonging to recognized religious minorities, including Christians, Jews, Sufi Muslims, Sunni Muslims and Zoroastrians and their defenders, noting in particular the arbitrary arrest and detention of Sufi Muslims, Sunni Muslims and evangelical Christians, including the continued detention of Christian pastors;
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- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Date modified
- Feb 29, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2018), para. 16
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- 13. Also calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the judicial and security branches, to create and maintain, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment in which an independent, diverse and pluralistic civil society can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to end widespread and serious restrictions, in law and in practice, on the right to free dom of expression, opinion, association and peaceful assembly, both online and offline, including by ending the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, women’s and minority rights activists, labour leaders, students’ rights activists, academics, film-makers, journalists, bloggers, social media users and social media page administrators, media workers, religious leaders, artists, lawyers and persons belonging to recognized and unrecognized religious minorities and their families, and further calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to release persons arbitrarily detained for the legitimate exercise of these rights, to consider rescinding unduly harsh sentences, including the death penalty and long - term internal exile, for exercising such fundamental freedoms and to end reprisals against individuals, including for cooperating with the United Nations human rights mechanisms;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Feb 29, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2016), para. 20
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- Emphasizing the particular risks with regard to the safety of journalists in the digital age, including the particular vulnerability of journalists to becoming targets of unlawful or arbitrary surveillance and/or interception of communications, in violation of their rights to privacy and to freedom of expression,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date modified
- Feb 29, 2020
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Promotion of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: protecting women human rights defenders (2014), para. 09
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- Gravely concerned that women human rights defenders are at risk of and suffer from violations and abuses, including systematic violations and abuses of their fundamental rights to life, liberty and security of person, to psychological and physical integrity, to privacy and respect for private and family life and to freedom of opinion and expression, association and peaceful assembly, and in addition can experience gender-based violence, rape and other forms of sexual violence, harassment and verbal abuse and attacks on reputation, online and offline, by State actors, including law enforcement personnel and security forces, and non-State actors, such as those related to family and community, in both public and private spheres,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Families
- Women
- Date modified
- Feb 29, 2020
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Promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines (2019), para. 05
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- Expressing concern at the allegations of human rights violations in the Philippines, particularly those involving killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrest and detention, the intimidation and persecution of or violence against members of civil society, human rights defenders, indigenous peoples, journalists, lawyers and members of the political opposition, and restrictions on the freedoms of opinion and expression, peaceful assembly and association,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Date modified
- Feb 28, 2020
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