Women human rights defenders and those working on women’s rights or gender issues 2011, para. 105
Paragraphe- Paragraph text
- Based mostly of the review of the communications sent by the mandate during the period between 2004 and 2009, women defenders and those working on women's rights or gender issues seem to be more at risk of being threatened, including death threats, and being killed in the Americas region than in other parts of the world. Arrest and further judicial harassment and criminalization of the work of have been more commonly reported in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Central Asia. Moreover, these defenders also risk being exposed to the reported torture, mistreatment and widespread use of excessive force by State agents in the context of arrests and detention. Furthermore, women defenders face a greater risk of being subject to sexual harassment, sexual violence and rape.
- 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
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Activists
- Women
- Année
- 2011
- Type de paragraphe
- Conclusion / Recommendation
- Reference
- SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/16/44, para. 105.
- Paragraph info
- Conclusion / Recommendation
- Paragraph number
- 105
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