Women human rights defenders and those working on women’s rights or gender issues 2011, para. 87
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
In 2005, the mandate sent a communication regarding the systematic use of sexual and other forms of violence against women defenders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Aside from this, two other cases of threatened and attempted rape were reported from the DRC, along with one attempted rape of a women defender's daughter in the Central African Republic, and the threatened rape of an LGBT activist in Kenya. Sexual assaults, including instances of gang rape in detention of LGBT activists, were also reported in Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, India, and Nepal. The alleged perpetrators of these acts were mostly unknown/ unidentified but also included members of the police, military, armed groups, or local members of the community.
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
Violence
Personnes concernées
Activists
LGBTQI+
Women
Année
2011
Type de paragraphe
Other
Reference
SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/16/44, para. 87.