Search Tips
sorted by
30 shown of 35 entities
The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2015), para. 22
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Expressing deep concern also at the growing threat to the safety of journalists posed by non-State actors, including terrorist groups and criminal organizations,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in Myanmar (1998), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Gravely concerned also about the travel and other restrictions placed on Aung San Suu Kyi and other political leaders, the continued arrests and harassment of members and supporters of the National League for Democracy, trade unionists and students for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression, assembly and association, the forced resignations of elected representatives and the long closure of all universities and colleges following the student demonstrations in December 1996,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Expressing deep concern also at the growing threat to the safety of journalists posed by non-State actors, including terrorist groups and criminal organizations,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests (2013), para. 24
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Underlines the role that communication between protestors, local authorities and police can play in the proper management of assemblies, such as peaceful protests;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The safety of journalists (2016), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Expressing deep concern at the growing threat to the safety of journalists posed by non-State actors, including terrorist groups and criminal organizations,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 24
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Expressing deep concern also at the growing threat to the safety of journalists posed by non-State actors, including terrorist groups and criminal organizations,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Promotion 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: protecting women human rights defenders (2014), para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Aware that information-technology-related violations, abuses, discrimination and violence against women, including women human rights defenders, such as online harassment, cyberstalking, violation of privacy, censorship and the hacking of e-mail accounts, mobile phones and other electronic devices, with a view to discrediting them and/or inciting other violations and abuses against them, are a growing concern and can be a manifestation of systemic gender-based discrimination, requiring effective responses compliant with human rights,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (2017), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reiterating the grave concerns expressed by the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council with regard to the serious risks faced by human rights defenders due to threats, attacks, reprisals and acts of intimidation against them,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2002), para. 12
- Paragraph text
- 3. Emphasizes the importance of combating impunity, and in this regard urges States to take appropriate measures to address the question of impunity for threats, attacks and acts of intimidation against human rights defenders;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2014), para. 32
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (i) To fulfil pledges by the new President for greater space for freedom of expression and opinion by ending the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, women’s rights activists, labour leaders, students, academics, film-makers, journalists and their families, other media representatives, bloggers, netizens, clerics, artists and lawyers, including by releasing persons detained arbitrarily or on the basis of their political views, and in this regard welcoming the reopening of the House of Cinema;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (2011), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) To integrate a gender perspective throughout the work of his/her mandate, paying particular attention to the situation of women human rights defenders;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights situation in Yemen (2019), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Concerned by the allegations of violations of international humanitarian law and of violations and abuses of human rights law in Yemen, including those involving grave violations against children and persons with disabilities, sexual and gender-based violence, attacks on humanitarian workers, civilians and civilian infrastructure, including medical facilities and missions and their personnel, as well as schools, the prevention of access for humanitarian aid, the use of import and other restrictions as a military tactic, the use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, the severe restrictions on freedom of religion or belief, including for minorities, such as members of the Baha’i faith, and the harassment of and attacks against journalists and human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2017), para. 36
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the need for the protection of human rights defenders engaged in the promotion of human rights issues in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, to allow them to carry out their work freely and without fear of attacks, harassment, arbitrary detention or criminal prosecution,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in Belarus (2011), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned at the overall human rights situation in Belarus and its severe deterioration since the presidential elections of 19 December 2010, including credible allegations of torture, arbitrary detention and increasing harassment of opposition leaders, representatives of civil society, human rights defenders, lawyers, independent media, students and those defending them,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2014), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Further welcomes the increasing space for political activity, assembly, speech and the press, and encourages the Government of Myanmar to fulfil its commitment to carry out comprehensive media reform and to protect the right to freedom of expression, association and of peaceful assembly, including to allow for free and independent media and to ensure the safety, security and freedom of human rights defenders to pursue their activities;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementing the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms through providing a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and ensuring their protection (2020), para. 12
- Paragraph text
- Underscoring the positive, important and legitimate role of human rights defenders in promoting and advocating the realization of all human rights, at the local, national, regional and international levels, including by engaging with Governments and contributing to the efforts in the implementation of the obligations and commitments of States in this regard,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2006), para. 35
- Paragraph text
- (i) To ensure that human rights defenders are protected from abuses, threats and harassment;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (2017), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Encourages all concerned United Nations agencies and organizations, within their mandates, to provide all possible assistance and support to the Special Rapporteur for the effective fulfilment of his or her mandate, including in the context of country visits and through suggestions on ways and means of ensuring the protection of human rights defenders;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2005), para. 21
- Paragraph text
- 6. Also calls upon all States to ensure, protect and respect the freedom of expression and association of human rights defenders and, where registration is required, to facilitate registration, including through the establishment of effective and transparent criteria and non-discriminatory procedures under domestic law;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Promotion 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: protecting women human rights defenders (2014), para. 29
- Paragraph text
- 8. Calls upon States to ensure that human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, can perform their important role in the context of peaceful protests, in accordance with national legislation consistent with the Charter of the United Nations and international human rights law, and in this regard to ensure that no one is subject to excessive or indiscriminate use of force, arbitrary arrest or detention, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, enforced disappearance, abuse of criminal and civil proceedings or threats of such acts;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementing the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms through providing a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and ensuring their protection (2020), para. 43
- Paragraph text
- 19. Recognizes the important contribution of the promotion and protection of the safety of human rights defenders in the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals, including target 16.10, and calls upon States to strengthen national disaggregated data collection, analysis and reporting on the number of verified cases of killing, kidnapping, enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention, torture and other harmful acts against human rights advocates, as reflected in Sustainable Development Goal indicator 16.10.1, and to do their utmost to make these data available to the relevant entities;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Promotion 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: protecting women human rights defenders (2014), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Mindful that domestic law and administrative provisions and their application should enable the work of women human rights defenders, including by avoiding any criminalization or stigmatization of the important activities and legitimate role of women human rights defenders and the communities of which they are a part or on whose behalf they work, as well as by avoiding impediments, obstructions, restrictions or selective enforcement thereof contrary to relevant provisions of international human rights law,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2018), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging the ongoing efforts of human rights defenders active in the Syrian Arab Republic to document violations and abuses of international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law, despite grave risks,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Sudan (2000), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Condemning the murder of four Sudanese relief workers in April 1999 while in the custody of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2018), para. 38
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 25. Also calls upon the Government of Myanmar to immediately release journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, and to allow unhindered access of journalists throughout Myanmar, in particular in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests (2018), para. 49
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 19. Recognizes the importance of documenting human rights violations and abuses committed in the context of peaceful protests, and the role that can be played by national human rights institutions, civil society, including non-governmental organizations, journalists and other media workers, Internet users and human rights defenders, in this regard;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2016), para. 18
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the steps taken by some States, including in follow-up to relevant resolutions, the universal periodic review under the Human Rights Council, special procedures, treaty bodies and regional human rights mechanisms, towards the improvement of dialogue between authorities and civil society and towards the adoption of national policies and legislation that serve to create a safe and enabling environment and to protect human rights defenders, in particular from being prosecuted, in contravention of the obligations and commitments of States under international human rights law, for peaceful activities, and against threats, harassment, intimidation, duress, arbitrary detention or arrest, enforced disappearance, violence and attacks by State and non-State actors,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting the good practices of different countries aimed at the protection of journalists, as well as, inter alia, those designed for the protection of human rights defenders that can, where applicable, be relevant to the protection of journalists,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances (2005), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (a) To take steps to protect witnesses of enforced disappearances, human rights defenders acting against enforced disappearances, and the lawyers and families of disappeared persons against any intimidation or ill-treatment to which they may be subjected;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Families
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Twentieth anniversary and promotion 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 (2018), para. 18
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the pressing importance of addressing, and taking concrete steps to prevent and stop, the use of legislation to hinder or limit unduly the ability of human rights defenders to exercise their work, including by reviewing and, where necessary, amending relevant legislation and its implementation in order to ensure compliance with international human rights law,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph