Elements of a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders 2014, para. 64
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
The Special Rapporteur has provided guidance on how various types of domestic legislation could contribute to a conducive environment for human rights defenders (A/67/292). She regrets that legislation is used in a number of countries to restrain the activities of human rights defenders and criminalize them, which is in breach of international human rights law, principles and standards. Anti-terrorism and public security legislation has risen to prominence in the last decade and, in many countries, such legislation is used to harass and prosecute defenders in the name of public security.
Status juridique
Non-negotiated soft law
Organe
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Type de document
Special Procedures' report
Mode d'adoption
N.A.
Thèmes
Governance & Rule of Law
Personnes concernées
Activists
Année
2014
Type de paragraphe
Other
Reference
SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the HRC (2014), A/HRC/25/55, para. 64.