Violations committed against defenders by non-State actors 2010, para. 29
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- Indeed, States are primarily responsible for the protection of human rights defenders and their rights, and the Special Rapporteur would like to recall that they should improve or develop specific protection programmes for defenders. In this connection, the Special Rapporteur would like to refer to the previous recommendations in that regard (see A/HRC/13/22). In the context of human rights violations by third parties, the obligation to protect, first, involves ensuring that defenders do not suffer from violations of their rights by non-State actors. Failure to protect could, in particular circumstances, engage the State's responsibility. Secondly, States should provide defenders victims of human rights violations with an effective remedy. To that end, all violations of the rights of defenders should be investigated promptly and impartially and perpetrators prosecuted. Fighting impunity for violations committed against defenders is crucial in order to enable defenders to work in a safe and conducive environment.
- 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
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- Activists
- Année
- 2010
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Reference
- SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the UNGA (2010), A/65/223, para. 29.
- Paragraph number
- 29
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