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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. 47

Paragraph text: Repressive laws can also restrict space for civil society actors to operate, thus hindering efforts towards the realization of basic rights and freedoms. Laws prohibiting non-governmental organizations and human rights defenders from working without official registration and limiting or altogether banning access to foreign funding have chilled the efforts to promote the rights of marginalized populations across the globe.

Body: Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health

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Paragraph text: Civil society actors should be able to do their work for the promotion and protection of human rights, including the right to health, in safe and enabling environments and should not suffer from criminalization, stigmatization or harassment of any sort because of the work that they do (see the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, A/HRC/25/55). The Special Rapporteur believes that there is a clear and direct link between the environment in which civil society operates in a given country and the level of realization of basic rights and freedoms, not only of the public freedoms that are necessary to advocating for human rights, but also of the specific rights for which they advocate. If civil society actors are harassed or persecuted due to their work advocating for and promoting the right to health, that is a symptom of important gaps in the realization of the right itself.

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