Global trends in risks and threats facing human rights defenders 2015, para. 53
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- The defenders also point to a lack of "intersectionality", that is to say, the awareness that different types and sources of discrimination intersect with, and reinforce, one another. Few studies address the problems faced by defenders when they are the target of several forms of discrimination (take, for instance, the case of a woman defender who has the status of a woman living in exile or that of a homosexual defender of ethnic minority origin). The international human rights system has not yet systematically incorporated an intersectional approach and, as a result, different sources of discrimination tend to be treated compartmentally. Thus, solutions do not permit a comprehensive grasp of the whole set of discriminations and vulnerabilities to which such defenders are exposed. Taking these different parameters into account would doubtless ensure a more integrated and crosscutting approach in the solutions to be found for these categories of defenders. This is one of the topics the Special Rapporteur intends to revisit in his next reports.
- 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
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Activists
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Année
- 2015
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Reference
- SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/217, para. 53.
- Paragraph number
- 53
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