Human rights defenders in the context of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 2015, para. 5
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
Strongly condemns the violence against and the targeting, criminalization, intimidation, torture, disappearance and killing of any individuals, including human rights defenders, for reporting and seeking information on human rights violations and abuses, and stresses the need to combat impunity by ensuring that those responsible for violations and abuses against human rights defenders, including against their legal representatives, associates and family members, are promptly brought to justice through impartial investigations;
Status juridique
Negotiated soft law
Organe
United Nations General Assembly
Type de document
Resolution
Mode d'adoption
Vote
Thèmes
Civil & Political Rights
Governance & Rule of Law
Violence
Personnes concernées
Activists
Families
Année
2015
Type de paragraphe
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Human rights defenders in the context of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2015), A/RES/70/161, OP 5.