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Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka (2014), para. 15
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- Expressing serious concern at the continuing reports of violations of human rights in Sri Lanka, including sexual and gender-based violence, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture and violations of the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, threats to judicial independence and the rule of law, as well as intimidation of and reprisals against human rights defenders, members of civil society, lawyers and journalists,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 24
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- Stressing the need for further action by States and non-State actors to promote a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and their protection, taking into account their diverse situations and the diverse contexts in which they operate,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 30
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- 6. Continues to express particular concern about systemic and structural discrimination, violence and harassment faced by women human rights defenders of all ages, including sexual and gender-based violence as well as defamation and smear campaigns, both online and offline, and reiterates its strong call upon States to take appropriate, robust and practical steps to protect women human rights defenders and to integrate a gender perspective into their efforts to create a safe and enabling environment for the defence of human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2015), para. 18
- Original document
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- Bearing in mind that impunity for attacks against journalists remains one of the greatest challenges to the safety of journalists and that ensuring accountability for crimes committed against journalists is a key element in preventing future attacks,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of association (2019), para. 14
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- Reiterating that domestic law and administrative provisions and their application should not hinder but enable the work of human rights defenders, including by avoiding any criminalization, stigmatization, impediments, obstructions or restrictions thereof contrary to the obligations of States under international human rights law,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 22
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- 1. Calls upon all States to promote, translate and give full effect to 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, 10 including by taking appropriate, robust and practical steps to protect women human rights defenders;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2017), para. 12
- Original document
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- Expressing grave concern also at the spread of extremism and extremist groups, terrorism and terrorist groups, and strongly condemning all violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law committed in the Syrian Arab Republic by any party to the conflict, in particular so -called ISIL-Da’esh, Al-Nusrah Front and militias fighting on behalf of the regime, Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups and other extremist groups,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Mission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to improve the human rights situation and accountability in Burundi (2017), para. 29
- Original document
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- 10. Notes with satisfaction the decision of the Government of Burundi to restore its full cooperation with the Human Rights Council and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, including by extending full cooperation to its office in Bujumbura, and encourages the Government to cooperate fully with treaty bodies and to improve the working conditions of human rights defenders;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2018), para. 45
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- 11. Calls upon States to ensure that measures to combat terrorism and preserve national security or public order are in compliance with their obligations under international law and do not arbitrarily or unduly hinder the work and safety of journalists, including through arbitrary arrest or detention, or the threat thereof;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 54
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- 22. Requests the Secretary-General to further assist in the implementation of the present resolution and to report to the General Assembly at its seventy-sixth session and to the Human Rights Council at its forty-ninth session on the safety of journalists, with a special focus on the activities of the network of focal points in addressing the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity and taking into account the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity and the follow-up thereto.
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2010), para. 049
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- 36. Stresses the need to ensure respect for the right to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of thought, conscience or belief, as enshrined in the Afghan Constitution, welcomes in this regard the new mass media law as important progress, while noting with concern the growing intimidation and violence targeting Afghan journalists and challenges to the independence of the media, condemns cases of the abduction and even killing of journalists by terrorist as well as extremist and criminal groups, and urges that harassment and attacks on journalists be investigated by the Afghan authorities and that those responsible be brought to justice;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 06
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- Noting further with deep concern that, in a number of countries in all regions of the world, impunity for threats, attacks and acts of intimidation against human rights defenders persists and that this has a negative impact on the work and safety of human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Eritrea (2017), para. 23
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- 6. Expresses its deep concern at the severe restrictions on the right to freedom to hold opinions without interference, freedom of expression, including the freedom to seek, receive and impart information, liberty of movement, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and at the detention of journalists, human rights defenders, political actors, religious leaders and practitioners in Eritrea;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (2016), para. 18
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- 5. Underlines the value of national human rights institutions, established and operating in accordance with the Paris Principles, in the continued monitoring of existing legislation and in consistently informing the State about the impact of such legislation on the activities of human rights defenders, including by making relevant and concrete recommendations;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Civil society space (2016), para. 05
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- Recalling further all other Human Rights Council resolutions relevant to creating and maintaining civil society space, inter alia, those addressing freedom of opinion and expression; the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; protecting human rights defenders; equal participation in political and public affairs; cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights; promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests; and the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2011), para. 29
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- (h) To end the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, labour leaders, students, academics, journalists, other media representatives, bloggers, clerics, artists and lawyers, including by releasing persons imprisoned arbitrarily or on the basis of their political views;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 23
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- 4. Urges States to acknowledge through public statements, policies, programmes or laws the important and legitimate role of individuals, groups and organs of society, including human rights defenders, in the promotion of all human rights, democracy and the rule of law as essential components of ensuring their recognition and protection, including by duly investigating and condemning publicly all cases of violence and discrimination against human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, underlining that such practices can never be justified;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2017), para. 16
- Original document
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- 13. Also calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the judicial and security branches, to create and maintain, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment in which an independent, diverse and pluralistic civil society can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to end widespread and serious restrictions, in law and in practice, on the right to freedom of expression, opinion, association and peaceful assembly, both online and offline, including by ending the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, women’s and minority rights activists, labour leaders, students’ rights activists, academics, film-makers, journalists, bloggers, social media users, media workers, religious leaders, artists, lawyers and persons belonging to recognized and unrecognized religious minorities and their families, and further calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to release persons arbitrarily detained for the legitimate exercise of these rights, to consider rescinding unduly harsh sentences, including the death penalty and long-term internal exile, for exercising such fundamental freedoms and to end reprisals against individuals, including for cooperating with the United Nations human rights mechanisms;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2007), para. 25
- Original document
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- (a) To ensure full respect for the rights to freedom of assembly, opinion and expression and for the right to take part in the conduct of public affairs, in accordance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and, in particular, to end the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents and human rights defenders, including by releasing persons imprisoned arbitrarily or on the basis of their political views; and to increase actions to promote and facilitate human rights education at all levels and to ensure that all those responsible for training lawyers, law enforcement officers, the personnel of the armed forces and public officials include appropriate elements of human rights teaching in their training programme;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 33
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- (c) To consider reviewing all proposed and existing legislation in accordance with international human rights obligations and a gender-responsive perspective, involving, when necessary, independent experts, national human rights institutions, women human rights defenders, women’s and girls’ community-based organizations, feminist groups and youth-led organizations, and other relevant stakeholders;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 10
- Original document
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- Commending the role and the activities of the Office of the High Commissioner and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization with regard to the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity, including their collaboration to strengthen implementation of the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, and their facilitation of the commemoration of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on 2 November, in consultation with relevant entities within the United Nations system, Governments and relevant stakeholders, and taking note of the outcome of the multi -stakeholder consultation on strengthening the implementation of the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2006), para. 31
- Original document
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- 4. Encourages the thematic mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights, inter alia, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, to visit or otherwise continue their work to improve the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and urges the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate with these special mechanisms and to illustrate how their subsequent recommendations have been addressed, including recommendations of special procedures that have visited the country in the past twelve months;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 22
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- 3. Welcomes the work and takes note of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights defenders, 8 and also takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights; 9
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2018), para. 07
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- Welcoming the decision of the Secretary-General to appoint a designated official on the safety of journalists in his Executive Office and to mobilize a network of focal points throughout the United Nations system to propose specific steps to intensify efforts to enhance the safety of journalists and media workers,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations andthe Council of Europe (2008), para. 07
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the declaration of the Council of Europe to improve the protection of human rights defenders and promote their activities within the European sphere,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine (2020), para. 31
- Original document
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- Strongly condemning in this regard mass detentions on terrorism grounds and other forms of repression against human rights defenders, including against activists of the Crimean Solidarity civic initiative, which documents abuses on the peninsula and provides humanitarian assistance to the families of victims of politically motivated prosecutions,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2000), para. 17
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- 12. Expresses its concern at the restrictions on freedom of expression, opinion, thought and the press and at the interference with the work of writers and journalists and the closure of publications, as well as at the circumstances surrounding the arrests of individuals based on involvement in student demonstrations and at reports that some of them may be subject to death sentences, or other harsh sentences, and calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to take further measures to secure freedom of expression, opinion, thought and the press;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2012), para. 08
- Original document
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- 2. Also strongly condemns the continued extrajudicial killings, the killing and persecution of protestors, human rights defenders and journalists, cases of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, interference with access to medical treatment, torture and ill-treatment, and condemns in particular the targeted killing of children and the fact that children have been subject to arbitrary arrest, detention, torture and ill-treatment, including sexual violence;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights andFundamental Freedoms (2010), para. 07
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- Gravely concerned further by the considerable number of communications received by the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights defenders that, together with the reports submitted by some of the other special procedure mechanisms, indicates the serious nature of the risks faced by human rights defenders, in particular women human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2006), para. 05
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- Gravely concerned by the continuing high level of human rights violations committed against persons engaged in promoting and defending human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world and by the fact that, in a number of countries in all regions of the world, impunity for threats, attacks and acts of intimidation against human rights defenders persists and that this has a negative impact on their work and safety,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Eritrea (2016), para. 28
- Original document
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- 5. Expresses its deep concern at the severe restrictions on the rights to freedom to hold opinions and expression, freedom to seek, receive and impart information, liberty of movement, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and at the detention of journalists, human rights defenders, political actors, religious leaders and practitioners in Eritrea;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 31
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- 10. Further calls upon States to ensure that the promotion and protection of human rights are not criminalized or met with limitations in contravention of their obligations and commitments under international human rights law and that women human rights defenders are not prevented from enjoying universal human rights owing to their work, including by ensuring that all legal provisions, administrative measures and policies affecting women human rights defenders, including those aimed at preserving public morals, are clearly defined, determinable, non- retroactive and compatible with relevant provisions of international human rights law;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cultural rights and the protection of cultural heritage (2016), para. 32
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- (b) To invite States, the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights and other relevant stakeholders from diverse regions, including experts and civil society organizations, and relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, other international organizations and cultural rights defenders involved in the protection of cultural heritage to participate actively in the above-mentioned seminar;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Sudan (2001), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Condemning the murder of four Sudanese relief workers in April 1999 while in the custody of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2019), para. 57
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- 36. Calls for the full implementation of the Mass Media Law, while noting with concern and condemning the continuing intimidation and violence targeting Afghan journalists, such as cases of abduction and even the killing of journalists by terrorist and violent extremist and criminal groups, and urges that the harassment of and attacks on journalists be investigated by Afghan authorities and that those responsible be brought to justice;
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2019), para. 56
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- 38. Also expresses grave concern that, according to the Commission of Inquiry, 2 a vast body of evidence suggested that chlorine had been dropped by helicopter on a residential building and it had received information on the death of at least 49 individuals and the wounding of up to 650 others in Duma on 7 April 2018, and at the findings of the Commission in the same report that, in a series of ground attacks in Duma on 22 January and 1 February 2018, the Syrian authorities and/or affiliated militias had committed the war crime of using prohibited weapons following a pattern previously documented by the Commission concerning the use of chemical weapons;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2006), para. 17
- Original document
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- (a) The continuing harassment, intimidation and persecution of human rights defenders, non-governmental organizations, political opponents, religious dissenters, political reformists, journalists, parliamentarians, students, clerics, academics and webloggers, including through undue restrictions on the freedoms of assembly, opinion and expression, the use of arbitrary arrest, targeted at both individuals and their family members, and the unjustified closure of newspapers and blocking of Internet sites, as well as the absence of many conditions necessary for free and fair elections, including by the arbitrary disqualification of large numbers of prospective candidates, including all women, during the presidential elections of June 2005;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2020), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 18. Calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to release women human rights defenders imprisoned for exercising their rights, including the rights to freedom of association and peaceful assembly and the right to freedom of expression and opinion, and to take appropriate, robust and practical steps to protect women human rights defenders and guarantee their full enjoyment of all their human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2019), para. 25
- 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 attack, harassment, arbitrary detention or criminal prosecution,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2009), para. 22
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (h) To end the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents and human rights defenders, including by releasing persons imprisoned arbitrarily or on the basis of their political views;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Belarus (2007), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (b) To cease politically motivated prosecution, harassment and intimidation of political opponents, pro-democracy activists and human rights defenders, students, independent media, religious organizations, educational institutions and civil society actors; and to cease the harassment of students and to create the conditions whereby they can continue their studies in Belarus;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2001), para. 05
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the appointment by the Secretary-General of a special representative on human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Commending the role and the activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization with regard to the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity, and their facilitation of the commemoration of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, in consultation with relevant entities within the United Nations system, Governments and relevant stakeholders,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2012), para. 24
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- 2. Strongly condemns the continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities and pro-Government militias, such as the use of force against civilians, massacres, arbitrary executions, the killing and persecution of protestors, human rights defenders and journalists, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, interference with access to medical treatment, torture, sexual violence, and ill-treatment, including against children, as well as any human rights abuses by armed opposition groups;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 26
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- 2. Affirms the important role of human rights defenders in supporting States to realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 8 including the pledge that no one will be left behind and to reach the furthest behind first;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Burundi (2018), para. 37
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 15. Urges the Government of Burundi to cooperate fully with the treaty bodies, to allow special procedure mandate holders to visit the country and to stop any reprisal against human rights defenders who are cooperating with international human rights mechanisms, including the Human Rights Council;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2010), para. 30
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (h) To end the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents and human rights defenders, students, academics, journalists, other media representatives, bloggers, clerics and lawyers, including by releasing persons imprisoned arbitrarily or on the basis of their political views, including those detained following the presidential election of 12 June 2009;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 47
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- 23. Urges non-State actors, including transnational corporations and other business enterprises, to assume their responsibility to respect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all persons, including human rights defenders, and underlines the need to ensure human rights due diligence and the accountability of, and the provision of adequate remedies by, transnational corporations and other business enterprises, while also urging States to adopt relevant policies and laws in this regard, including to hold all companies to account for involvement in threats or attacks against human rights defenders;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility ofIndividuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2004), para. 17
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- Emphasizing the need for strong and effective measures for the protection of human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 55
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- 23. Encourages all business enterprises, as part of their human rights due diligence in accordance with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, to share and exchange best practices in this regard, and to communicate in an accessible form on how they address their adverse human rights impacts, particularly when concerns are raised by or on behalf of affected stakeholders, including by environmental human rights defenders;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and cooperation on human rights for Kyrgyzstan (2011), para. 13
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- 5. Reaffirms the need to uphold the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of expression and freedom of association, strongly condemns the acts that resulted in the killing of protestors on 7 April 2010, and urges the Government of Kyrgyzstan to take special measures to ensure the protection of human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 05
- Original document
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- Taking note with appreciation of the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, endorsed by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination on 12 April 2012, in which United Nations agencies, funds and programmes were invited to work with Member States towards a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers in both conflict and __________________ non-conflict situations, with a view to strengthening peace, democracy and development worldwide,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility ofIndividuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2004), para. 09
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- Noting with deep concern that, in a number of countries in all regions of the world, impunity for threats, attacks and acts of intimidation against human rights defenders persists and that this has a negative impact on their work and safety,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2020), para. 25
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- 22. Also calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to launch a comprehensive accountability process in response to all cases of serious human rights violations, including allegations of excessive use of force against peaceful protesters and cases of suspicious deaths in custody, as well as violations involving the Iranian judiciary and security agencies, and calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to end impunity for such violations;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 16
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- Taking note of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, 1 and noting with concern her findings with regard to attacks against and the criminalization of indigenous human rights defenders, and calling upon all States to consider the recommendations contained in the report,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2012), para. 16
- Original document
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- 3. Further strongly condemns all attacks on journalists, including the deadly terror attack on 20 September and the assassination on 21 September 2012 of a prominent journalist in Mogadishu, calls upon the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia to protect the safety of the journalist, calls on all States to provide necessary technical assistance to the Government, subnational authorities, the national union of Somali journalists and individual journalist in this regard, and urges State and non-State actors to refrain from intentional violence against and harassment of journalists and to respect freedom of expression; ;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (2019), para. 26
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- 6. Urges the Venezuelan authorities to immediately release all political prisoners and all other persons arbitrarily deprived of their liberty, and with urgency the 27 persons detained and identified as priority cases by the High Commissioner in her oral update to the Human Rights Council at its present session; to conduct prompt, effective, thorough, independent, impartial and transparent investigations into all human rights violations; to halt, publicly condemn, punish and prevent all acts of persecution and targeted repression based on political grounds; to cease and prevent the excessive use of force during demonstrations; and to adopt effective measures to protect human rights defenders and media workers;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2019), para. 22
- Original document
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- (i) The arrest of soldiers over the past year for allegedly torturing and threatening journalists and the arrest of soldiers accused of sexual exploitation and abuse, which sends a strong message from the Federal Government for accountability, and is hopeful that these actions foster further efforts to combat impunity;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 17
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- Alarmed by the increasing rate of killings, violent acts, including gender-based violence, threats, harassment, intimidation, smear campaigns, criminalization, judicial harassment, forced eviction and displacement of environmental human rights defenders, including indigenous and women human rights defenders, and human rights defenders addressing issues relating to land rights, their family members, communities, associates and legal representatives, as reported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and other special procedures,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2017), para. 22
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- 15. Notes with concern that charges for criminal defamation have increasingly been used to target journalists, politicians, students and social media users for their peaceful expression, online as well as offline, in particular under section 66 (d) of the Telecommunications Act, the Electronic Transactions Law and provisions of the Penal Code, including section 505 (b), and that the Unlawful Associations Act and the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law continue to be abused to arbitrarily arrest and detain individuals for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, including on the basis of their ethnicity or political beliefs, and calls for open and participatory legislative processes to reform those laws in line with the international human rights law obligations of the Government of Myanmar;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Independence and impartiality of the judiciary, jurors and assessors and the independence of lawyers (2010), para. 12
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- Noting with concern the increasingly frequent attacks on the independence of judges, lawyers, prosecutors and court officials,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 13
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- Gravely concerned by the considerable and increasing number of allegations and communications of a serious nature received by special procedures of the Human Rights Council and other mechanisms on the threats, risks and dangers faced by human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, online and offline, and the prevalence of impunity for violations and abuses against them in many countries, where they face threats, harassment and attacks and suffer insecurity, including through restrictions on, inter alia, the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, association or peaceful assembly, and the right to privacy, or through abuse of criminal or civil proceedings, or acts of intimidation and reprisal intended to prevent their cooperation with the United Nations and other international bodies in the field of human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 29
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- 8. Calls upon States to take concrete steps to prevent and put an end to the arbitrary arrest and detention of human rights defenders, and in this regard strongly urges the release of persons detained or imprisoned, in v iolation of the obligations and commitments of States under international human rights law, for exercising their human rights and fundamental freedoms, such as the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, including in relation to cooperation with the United Nations or other international mechanisms in the area of human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Safety of journalists (2012), para. 27
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- 8. Calls upon States to promote a safe and enabling environment for journalists to perform their work independently and without undue interference, including by means of (a) legislative measures; (b) awareness-raising in the judiciary, law enforcement officers and military personnel, as well as journalists and civil society, regarding international human rights and humanitarian law obligations and commitments relating to the safety of journalists; (c) the monitoring and reporting of attacks against journalists; (d) publicly condemning attacks; and (e) dedicating necessary resources to investigate and prosecute such attacks;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine (2018), para. 16
- Original document
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- Condemning the increasing pressure exerted upon religious minority communities, including through frequent police raids, threats against and persecution of those belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, the Protestant Church, mosques and Muslim religious schools, Greek-Catholics, Roman Catholics and Jehovah’s Witnesses, and condemning also the baseless prosecution of dozens of peaceful Muslims for allegedly belonging to Islamic organizations,
- Topic(s)
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 32
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- 9. Also urges States to develop and appropriately resource protection initiatives for human rights defenders, to ensure that human rights defenders are meaningfully consulted in the provision and implementation of protection measures, and also to ensure that the measures are holistic, including both individual and collective protection aspects, and that these measures also function as early warning and rapid response mechanisms that enable human rights defenders, when threatened, to have immediate access to authorities that are competent and adequately resourced to provide effective protective measures, taking into account the intersectional dimensions of violations and abuses against women human rights defenders, indigenous peoples, children, persons belonging to minorities, and rural and marginalized communities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2015), para. 27
- Original document
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- 3. Urges the immediate release of journalists and media workers who have been taken as hostages or who have become victims of enforced disappearances;
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- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 32
- Original document
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- 6. Encourages States to take the opportunity of the proclamation of 2 November as the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists to raise awareness regarding the issue of the safety of journalists and to launch concrete initiatives in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2008), para. 14
- Original document
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- (g) Ongoing, systemic and serious restrictions of freedom of peaceful assembly and association and freedom of opinion and expression, including those imposed on the media and trade unions, and increasing harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents and human rights defenders from all sectors of Iranian society, including arrests and violent repression of labour leaders, labour members peacefully assembling and students;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 15
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- Emphasizing the need for strong and effective measures for the protection of human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 30
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- 9. Also calls upon States to exercise due diligence in preventing violations and abuses against human rights defenders, including through practical steps to prevent threats, harassment and violence against women human rights defenders, who face particular risks, and in combating impunity by ensuring that those responsible for violations and abuses, including gender-based violence and threats against women human rights defenders, committed by State and non-State actors, including online, are promptly brought to justice through impartial investigations;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building for Yemen in the field of human rights (2018), para. 20
- Original document
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- 8. Urges the Government of Yemen to take measures to protect civilians, and to take appropriate measures with a view to ending impunity for all cases involving violations and abuse of human rights and international humanitarian law, including cases of violence against journalists and the detention of journalists and political activists;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2019), para. 23
- Original document
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- 10. Also calls upon the Government of Myanmar to fulfil its commitment to release unconditionally all remaining political prisoners and to provide for the full rehabilitation of former political prisoners, and reiterates its call for the immediate and unconditional release of journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, and of other journalists, media workers, human rights defenders and activists detained, charged and arrested under these restrictive laws, and for the Government to step up without delay action to combat hate speech and incitement to violence and hatred;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 08
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- Stressing, in this regard, that all human rights and fundamental freedoms apply to all persons equally, including human rights defenders in the context of the Declaration, 6 and that these rights and freedoms must be respected, protected and fulfilled without discrimination,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2017), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 20. Encourages the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to provide greater protection for all political actors, members of civil society, journalists and human rights defenders during elections, and to ensure respect for all human rights;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2018), para. 54
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 21. Invites States to share information on a voluntary basis on the status of investigations into attacks and violence against journalists, including in response to requests by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization through the mechanism operated by its International Programme for the Development of Communication;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2019), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Taking note of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, 12 noting with concern her findings with regard to attacks against indigenous human rights defenders and her reflections on available prevention and protection measures, and calling upon all States to consider the recommendations contained in the report,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2017), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the work of Palestinian, Israeli and international civil society actors and human rights defenders in documenting and countering violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018), para. 09
- Original document
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- Noting with concern the report published on 19 March 2018 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which documented killings and other serious human rights violations owing to the excessive use of force against protest movements between January 2017 and January 2018,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (1998), para. 08
- Original document
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- 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
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2007), para. 18
- Original document
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- (a) The continuing harassment, intimidation and persecution of human rights defenders, non-governmental organizations, political opponents, religious dissenters, political reformists, journalists, parliamentarians, students, clerics, academics, webloggers, union members and labour organizers, including through undue restrictions on the freedoms of assembly, conscience, opinion and expression, the threat and use of arbitrary arrest and prolonged detention, targeted at both individuals and their family members, the ongoing unjustified closure of newspapers and blocking of Internet sites and restrictions on the activities of unions and other non-governmental organizations, as well as the absence of many conditions necessary for free and fair elections;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Families
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights andFundamental Freedoms (2010), para. 28
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- 13. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, as well as other relevant United Nations bodies, offices, departments and specialized agencies, within their respective mandates, to consider ways in which they can assist States in strengthening the role and security of human rights defenders, including in situations of armed conflict and peacebuilding;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 23
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- 2. Calls upon all States to take all measures necessary to ensure the rights and safety of human rights defenders who exer cise the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, peaceful assembly and association, which are essential for the promotion and protection of human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines (2019), para. 11
- Original document
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- Noting with appreciation the adoption in June 2019 by the House of Representatives of the Philippines of the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 29
- Original document
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- 1. Condemns unequivocally all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers, such as torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention, as well as intimidation, threats and harassment, including through attacks on, or the forced closure of, their offices and media outlets, in both conflict and non-conflict situations;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 22
- Original document
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- Bearing in mind that impunity for attacks against journalists remains one of the greatest challenges to the safety of journalists and that ensuring accountability for crimes committed against journalists is a key element in preventing future attacks,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 68/163 of 18 December 2013 on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity, in which it proclaimed 2 November as the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, as well as its resolution 69/185 of 18 December 2014 on the same issue,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in the Sudan (2016), para. 29
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- 15. Urges the Government of the Sudan to ensure safeguards against arbitrary arrest or detention and to respect the human rights of all individuals, and expresses serious concern about alleged cases of arbitrary arrest and detention, including of students, human rights defenders and members of civil society organizations;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2017), para. 46
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- 30. Reiterates its concern at the destructive consequences of violent and terrorist activities, including against persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, by the Taliban, including the Haqqani Network, as well as Al -Qaida, ISIL (Da’esh) affiliates and other terrorist groups, violent and extremist groups and other illegal armed groups and criminals, for the enjoyment of human rights and for the capacity of the Government to ensure human rights and fundamental freedoms for all Afghans, stresses the need to further promote tolerance and religious freedom and to ensure respect for the right to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of thought, conscience or belief as enshrined in the Afghan Constitution and the international covenants that Afghanistan adheres to, emphasizes the necessity of investigating allegations of current and past violations, stresses the importance of facilitating the provision of efficient and effective remedies to the victims and of bringing the perpetrators to justice in accordance with national and international law, calls for full implementation of the mass media law, while noting with concern and condemning the continuing intimidation and violence targeting Afghan journalists, such as cases of abduction and even the killing of journalists by terrorist and extremist and criminal groups, urges that harassment and attacks on journalists be investigated by Afghan authorities and that those responsible be brought to justice, and welcomes in this regard the issuance of the presidential decree of 31 January 2016 outlining specific measures for ensuring the safety, security and protection of journalists;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of association (2019), para. 21
- Original document
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- (c) Calls upon all States to pay particular attention to the safety of journalists and media workers observing, monitoring and recording peaceful protests, taking into account their specific role, exposure and vulnerability;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2005), para. 39
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- 4. Encourages the thematic mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights, including the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders to visit the Islamic Republic of Iran, and encourages the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate with these special mechanisms and to respond fully to their subsequent recommendations;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 05
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- Gravely concerned by the continuing high level of human rights violations committed against persons engaged in promoting and defending human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world and by the fact that, in a number of countries in all regions of the world, impunity for threats, attacks and acts of intimidation against human rights defenders persists and that this has a negative impact on their work and safety,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 09
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- Recognizing the substantial role that human rights defenders can play in supporting efforts to strengthen conflict prevention, peace and development through dialogue, openness, participation and justice, including by monitori ng, reporting on and contributing to the promotion and protection of human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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National human rights institutions (2020), para. 27
- Original document
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- 5. Underlines the value of national human rights institutions, established and operating in accordance with the Paris Principles, in the continued monitoring of existing legislation and in consistently informing the State about the impact of such legislation on the activities of human rights defenders, including by making relevant and concrete recommendations;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2006), para. 09
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- Recognizing the substantial role that human rights defenders can play in supporting peace through dialogue, openness, participation and justice, including by monitoring and reporting on human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 09
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- Emphasizing the need for strong and effective measures for the protection of human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2019), para. 28
- Original document
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- 7. Denounces all acts of intimidation, threats and delegitimization directed at human rights organizations, civil society actors and human rights defenders involved in documenting and countering violations of international law and impunity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and calls upon all States to ensure their protection;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2019), para. 45
- Original document
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- (h) To fulfil its human rights obligations and commitments to protect the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, to create and maintain a safe and enabling environment for civil society and independent media and to ensure the safety, security and freedom of journalists, media workers, civil society activists and human rights defenders, including while they are engaged in their work;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Eritrea (2016), para. 30
- Original document
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- (b) To account for and release all political prisoners, including the members of the G-15 reform group and journalists;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Belarus (2007), para. 12
- Original document
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- (e) About the continuing harassment and detention of Belarusian journalists covering local opposition demonstrations, and that senior officials of the Government of Belarus were implicated in the enforced disappearance and/or summary execution of three political opponents of the incumbent authorities in 1999 and of a journalist in 2000 and in the continuing investigatory cover-up, as documented in the report adopted in resolution 1371 (2004) of 28 April 2004 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; 15
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 10
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- Reaffirming the importance of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and its full and effective implementation, and that promoting respect, support and protection for the activities of human rights defenders, including women, indigenous and environmental human rights defenders, is essential to the overall enjoyment of human rights, and recognizing the substantial role that human rights defenders can play in supporting efforts to strengthen conflict prevention, peace and sustainable development, including environmental protection, through dialogue, openness, participation and justice, including by monitoring, reporting on and contributing to the promotion and protection of all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, and other rights, including the right to development, and in the context of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 8
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 47
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- 22. Also urges States to promote and support projects to improve and further develop the documentation and monitoring of cases of violations against women human rights defenders, and encourages the provision of adequate support and resources for those working to protect women human rights defenders, such as government agencies, national human rights institutions and civil society, including national and international non-governmental organizations;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 24
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- 5. Encourages partnerships and collaboration between States, national human rights institutions, civil society and other stakeholders in promoting, protecting and realizing all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including through consultative bodies, focal points within the public administration, national human rights mechanisms for reporting or follow-up, or measures aimed at enhancing the recognition in society of the valuable role played by human rights defenders, while fully recognizing the importance of the independent voice of human rights defenders and other civil society actors;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 27
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- 3. Welcomes the work and takes note of the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights defenders presented to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, and encourages all States to consider implementing recommendations contained in the reports and to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2012), para. 14
- Original document
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- 1. Strongly condemns the grave and systematic human rights abuses and violations perpetrated against the civilian population, including women, children, journalists and human rights defenders, in particular by Al-Shabaab and its affiliates, and calls for their immediate cessation;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2018), para. 39
- Original document
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- 12. Deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms and all violations of international humanitarian law by the Syrian authorities, the government-affiliated shabbiha militias and those who fight on their behalf, including those deliberately targeting civilians or civilian objects, including attacks on schools, hospitals and places of worship, with heavy weapons, aerial bombardments, clust er munitions, ballistic missiles, barrel bombs, chemical or other weapons and other force against civilians, as well as the starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare, attacks on schools, hospitals and places of worship, massacres, arbitr ary executions, extrajudicial killings, the killing and persecution of peaceful protesters, human rights defenders and journalists, individuals and members of communities on the basis of their religion or belief, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance s, violations of women’s and children’s rights, forced displacement of members of minority groups and of those opposed to the Syrian regime, unlawful interference with access to medical treatment, failure to respect and protect medical personnel, torture, systematic sexual and gender-based violence, including rape in detention, and ill-treatment;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility ofIndividuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2003), para. 19
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- 5. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2006), para. 07
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- Concerned by the considerable number of communications received by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders that, together with the reports submitted by some of the special procedure mechanisms, indicate the serious nature of the risks faced by human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of human rights in Afghanistan (2002), para. 24
- Original document
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- 3. Strongly condemns also the killing of foreign correspondents which occurred in Afghanistan in November 2001, reiterates its firm condemnation of the killing of Iranian diplomats and the correspondents of the Islamic Republic News Agency by the Taliban, as well as the attacks on and the killing of United Nations personnel in territories of Afghanistan at that moment under Taliban control, and calls upon all Afghan parties to cooperate in urgent investigations of those heinous crimes with a view to bringing to justice those responsible;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 06
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the importance of the Declaration and its implementation, and that promoting respect and support for the activities of human rights defenders is essential to the overall enjoyment of human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Turkmenistan (2005), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (c) Further restrictions on the freedom of expression and opinion, including the loss of local retransmissions of Russian language programmes on Radio Mayak, and serious harassment endured by local correspondents and collaborators of Radio Liberty;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2016), para. 36
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (f) To initiate timely, effective, impartial and transparent investigations into killings of journalists and to prosecute all those responsible for unlawful acts, in a manner in line with provisions in the media law and in a manner that is equally consistent with other applicable domestic and international legal obligations, to create security and space for a free press to operate, and to take measures to protect and support, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment in which civil society and human rights defenders can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, in particular in view of the forthcoming election process;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Belarus (2013), para. 06
- Original document
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- 2. Expresses deep concern at continuing violations of human rights in Belarus, which are of a structural and endemic nature, and also at the systemic and systematic restrictions on human rights, especially in the case of the freedoms of association, of assembly, and of opinion and expression, as well as the guarantees of due process and fair trial, and expresses particular concern at the use of torture and ill-treatment in custody, the lack of response by the Government to cases of enforced disappearance of political opponents, violations of labour rights amounting to forced labour, significant gaps in anti- discrimination legislation, the impunity of perpetrators of human rights violations and abuses, the harassment of civil society organizations, human rights defenders, journalists and political opponents, pressure on defence lawyers, the lack of participation of opposition political parties in Parliament, and the fact that most international observers regarded the polling in Parliamentary elections on 23 September 2012 as inconsistent with basic standards for competitive, free and fair elections;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2019), para. 22
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to safeguard those who report violations and abuses, and expresses concern about reports of the arrest of individuals exercising those rights, and in this regard encourages the Government to amend restrictive laws and to end restrictions on exercising the rights to the freedoms of religion or belief, expression, association and peaceful assembly, which are essential to ensure a safe and enabling environment for all, notably civil society, human rights defenders, journalists, media workers, lawyers, environmental and land rights activists, in particular encourages the Government to proceed with the reform of the Media Law and to review, repeal or reform contested legislation, including the Official Secrets Act, the Unlawful Associations Act, the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law, articles 66 (d) and 80 (c) of the Telecommunications Act, and articles 500 and 505 (b) of the Penal Code to bring them into line with international human rights law obligations;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 26
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- 5. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Families
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2018), para. 32
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Condemns unequivocally measures in violation of international human rights law aiming to or that intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online and offline, which undermine the work of journalists in informing the public, including measures to unlawfully or arbitrarily block or take down media websites, such as denial of service attacks, and calls upon all States to cease and refrain from these measures, which cause irreparable harm to efforts at building inclusive and peaceful knowledge societies and democracies;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2019), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Also expresses concern at the attacks against and harassment of human rights defenders and the media in Somalia, including journalists, especially in the form of harassment, arbitrary arrest or prolonged detention, and emphasizes the need to promote respect for freedom of expression and opinion and to end impunity, holding accountable those who commit any such related crimes;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 30
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Urges the immediate and unconditional release of journalists and media workers who have been taken as hostages or who have become victims of enforced disappearances;
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2016), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Condemns unequivocally all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers, such as torture, killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention, intimidation, threats and harassment, including through attacks on or the forced closure of their offices and media outlets, in both conflict and non-conflict situations;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibilityof Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2008), para. 15
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- Recalling that the primary responsibility for promoting and protecting human rights rests with the State, reaffirming that national legislation consistent with the Charter of the United Nations and other international obligations of the State in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms is the juridical framework within which human rights defenders conduct their activities, and noting with deep concern that the activities of some non-State actors pose a major threat to the security of human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2015), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Calls upon States to cooperate with relevant United Nations entities, in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as well as international and regional human rights mechanisms, and to share information on a voluntary basis on the status of investigations into attacks and violence against journalists;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Strongly condemns the prevailing impunity for attacks and violence against journalists, and expresses grave concern that the vast majority of these crimes go unpunished, which in turn contributes to the recurrence of these crimes;
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Civil society space (2016), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming also the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to various civil society actors and human rights defenders as recognition of the decisive contribution that civil society can make in the promotion of human rights, the creation of peaceful dialogue and the building of pluralistic democracies, including the award to the civil society-led National Dialogue Quartet in 2015,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of discrimination against women and girls (2017), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Expressing profound concern about the backlash against the progress made by civil society, including women’s and community-based organizations, feminist groups, women human rights defenders and girls’ and youth-led organizations, to fulfil women’s human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building for human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2013), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Encourages the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ensure the smooth functioning, both at national level and in the provinces, of the mechanism for consensus-building and cooperation known as the entité de liaison des droits de l’homme, and of the unit for the protection of human rights defenders, including through the allocation of budget funds under the Finance Act;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 34
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- 15. Encourages all parts of the international community, in view of the twentieth anniversary of the Declaration, including States, national human rights institutions, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, in cooperation with relevant parts of the United Nations system, relevant regional organizations and civil society actors, to initiate and take part in awareness-raising activities at the local, national, regional and international levels, to promote and support the Declaration and its implementation, invites all stakeholders to report thereon to the Office of the High Commissioner, and requests the Office to make a compilation ther eof available for the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly referred to in paragraph 14 above;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 11
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- Gravely concerned that impunity for violations and abuses against women human rights defenders persists owing to factors including a lack of reporting, documentation, investigation and access to justice, social barriers and constraints with regard to addressing gender-based violence, including sexual violence and the stigmatization that may result from such violations and abuses, and a lack of recognition of the legitimate role of women human rights defenders, all of which entrench or institutionalize gender discrimination,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Belarus (2007), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (b) That in spite of detailed recommendations by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and dialogue between the Government and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe following previous elections, Belarus again failed to meet its commitments to hold free and fair elections, including through the arbitrary use of State power against opposition candidates, routine harassment, the detention and arrest of political and civil society activists, the obstruction of the access of opposition candidates to State media, the negative portrayal in the State media of opposition candidates and activists, including human rights defenders, and the serious shortcomings of the vote count, which lacked minimum transparency;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights, technical assistance and capacity-building in Yemen (2017), para. 14
- 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, 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 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,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibilityof Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2008), para. 18
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- 2. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders 5F 6 and her contribution to the effective promotion of the Declaration and the improvement of the protection of human rights defenders worldwide;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (1997), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Gravely concerned at the travel and other restrictions placed on Aung San Suu Kyi and other political leaders and at the recent mass arrests of members and supporters of the National League for Democracy for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression, assembly and association, and alarmed by the attack, on 9 November 1996, on Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of the National League for Democracy,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe (2018), para. 16
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- 7. Notes the effective implementation of the joint declaration on the reinforcement of cooperation between the secretariat of the Council of Europe and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and in this respect encourages further cooperation between the United Nations, including the Human Rights Council, its special procedures, the Office of the High Commissioner and the human rights treaty bodies, and the Council of Europe, along with its Commissioner for Human Rights, with regard to promoting and ensuring respect for human rights and the role of human rights defenders;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya (2017), para. 21
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- 7. Condemns all attacks, intimidation, harassment and violence against journalists, media workers, members of civil society and human rights defenders, especially given their role in documenting protests and human rights violations and abuses, and restrictions on freedom of expression;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing the role of international cooperation in support of national efforts to prevent attacks and violence against journalists and in raising the capacities of States in the field of human rights, including in preventing attacks and violence against journalists, including through the provision of technical assistance, upon the request of and in accordance with the priorities set by the States concerned,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 31
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- 7. Recognizes that democracy and the rule of law are essential components for the creation of a safe and enabling environment and the protection of human rights defenders, and urges States to take measures to strengthen democratic institutions, safeguard civic space, uphold the rule of law and combat impunity;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2016), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) The establishment of information-gathering mechanisms, such as databases, to permit the gathering of verified information about threats and attacks against journalists;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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
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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
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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
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- 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
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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
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- 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
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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
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- 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
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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
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Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2017), para. 36
- Original document
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- 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,
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 31
- Original document
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- Acknowledging the particular risks with regard to the safety of journalists in the digital age, including the particular vulnerability of journalists to becoming targets of unlawful or arbitrary surveillance or interception of communications, in violation of their rights to privacy and to freedom of expression,
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- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (2017), para. 08
- Original document
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- 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,
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2014), para. 07
- Original document
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- 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;
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Sudan (2000), para. 08
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- Condemning the murder of four Sudanese relief workers in April 1999 while in the custody of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army,
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests (2018), para. 49
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- 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;
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Safety of journalists (2012), para. 22
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- 3. Expresses its concern that violations of the right to freedom of opinion and expression continue to occur, including increased attacks against and killings of journalists and media workers, and stressing the need to ensure greater protection for all media professionals and for journalistic sources;
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Belarus (2011), para. 08
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- 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,
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (2017), para. 20
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- 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;
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 25
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- 2. Stresses that human rights defenders, including environmental human rights defenders, must be ensured a safe and enabling environment to undertake their work free from hindrance and insecurity, in recognition of their important role in supporting States to fulfil their obligations under the Paris Agreement and to realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the pledge that no one will be left behind and to reach the furthest behind first;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2015), para. 22
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- Expressing deep concern also at the growing threat to the safety of journalists posed by non-State actors, including terrorist groups and criminal organizations,
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- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 39
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- 15. Calls upon States and encourages non-State actors to ensure that those involved in the protection of human rights defenders, their legal representatives, associates or family members are trained in human rights and the protection-related needs of human rights defenders at risk;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Families
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (2018), para. 26
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- 5. Underlines the value of national human rights institutions, established and operating in accordance with the Paris Principles, in the continued monitoring of existing legislation and in consistently informing the State about the impact of such legislation on the activities of human rights defenders, including by making relevant and concrete recommendations;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Independence and impartiality of the judiciary, jurors and assessors and the independence of lawyers (2010), para. 16
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- 3. Requests the Special Rapporteur to carry out, within existing resources and with the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, a global thematic study to assess the human rights education and continuing training of judges, prosecutors, public defenders and lawyers, with recommendations for appropriate follow-up, and to present it to the Council at its twentieth session;
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- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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
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- 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
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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
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- 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,
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2006), para. 35
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- (i) To ensure that human rights defenders are protected from abuses, threats and harassment;
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- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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
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- 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
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (2011), para. 13
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- (e) To integrate a gender perspective throughout the work of his/her mandate, paying particular attention to the situation of women human rights defenders;
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- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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
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- 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;
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- Activists
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of association (2019), para. 15
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- Deploring violations and abuses of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association by State and non-State actors, including arbitrary detentions of peaceful protestors and individuals on the basis of their political opinion and affiliation, as well as individuals identified as political opponents,
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- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2018), para. 18
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- 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
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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
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- 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
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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
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- 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
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2018), para. 38
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- 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;
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- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights situation in Yemen (2019), para. 14
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- 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
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The situation in Afghanistan (2009), para. 045
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- 34. Stresses the need to ensure respect for the right to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of thought, conscience or belief, while noting with concern recent attempts to limit freedom of expression and to intimidate journalists, and condemns cases of the abduction and even killing of journalists by terrorist as well as extremist and criminal groups;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 55
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- 23. Underlines the value of national human rights institutions, established and operating in accordance with the Paris Principles, 8 in the continued monitoring of existing legislation and consistently informing the State about its impact on the activities of human rights defenders, including by making relevant and concrete recommendations;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 11
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- Mindful that domestic law and administrative provisions and their application should not hinder, but enable the work of human rights defenders, including by avoiding any criminalization or stigmatization of the important activities and legitimate role of human rights defenders and the c ommunities of which they are a part or on whose behalf they work, and by avoiding impediments, obstructions, restrictions or selective enforcement thereof contrary to the obligations and commitments of States under international human rights law,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 20
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- Stressing in particular that information and communications technologies are important tools for the promotion of human rights and reporting on human rights violations and abuses, and concerned that such technologies are increasingly being used to monitor and hamper the work of human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 15
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- Underscoring that the legal framework within which human rights defenders work peacefully to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms is that of national legislation consistent with the Charter and international human rights law,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2019), para. 48
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- 21. Calls upon Israel to end all harassment, threats, intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders and civil society actors who peacefully advocate for the rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including by cooperating with United Nations human rights bodies, and underscores the need to investigate all such acts, to ensure accountability and effective remedies, and to take steps to prevent any further such threats, attacks, reprisals or acts of intimidation;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (2017), para. 15
- Original document
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- 1. Welcomes the work and takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, 1 and strongly urges all States to take concrete steps to create, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment in which human rights defenders can operate free from hindrance and insecurity;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 15
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- Recalling that the primary responsibility for promoting and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms rests with the State, and reaffirming that national legislation consistent with the Charter and other international obligations of the State in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms is the juridical framework within which human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, conduct their activities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2003), para. 32
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- (d) The occurrence of cases of summary and arbitrary execution, disappearance, torture, beating, harassment and arrest, the persecution of individuals and the arbitrary detention for long periods of persons, including journalists, opposition politicians, human rights defenders, people who have cooperated with the United Nations mechanisms and other members of civil society;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (2016), para. 57
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- 44. We note with concern, however, that there are serious threats to freedom of expression and plurality of information, and we call for the protection of journalists, media workers and civil society space. We call upon States to take all appropriate measures necessary to ensure the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the right to peaceful assembly and association and the right not to be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy, in accordance with their human rights obligations.
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 57
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- 25. Encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the special procedures, within their respective mandates, to continue the efforts related to the protection of human rights defenders, as laid out in relevant resolutions, including by offering technical assistance for the consideration of States in bringing their legislation and its application into line with the obligations and commitments of States under international human rights law;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2014), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Taking note of 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,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibilityof Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2008), para. 29
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- 13. Requests that the Office of the High Commissioner as well as other relevant United Nations bodies, offices, departments and specialized agencies, within their respective mandates, consider ways in which they can assist States in strengthening the role and security of human rights defenders, including in situations of armed conflict and peacebuilding;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2011), para. 34
- Original document
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- 23. Further calls upon the Government of Myanmar to allow human rights defenders to pursue their activities unhindered and to ensure their safety, security and freedom of movement in that pursuit;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine (2019), para. 19
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- Deeply concerned that, since 2014, torture has reportedly been used by the Russian authorities to extract false confessions for politically motivated prosecutions, including in the case of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film-maker, and expressing deep concern about the ongoing arbitrary detentions and arrests by the Russian Federation of Ukrainian citizens, including Volodymyr Balukh and Emir-Usein Kuku, and in particular those on hunger strike,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat (2011), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (d) To organize and promote fact-finding news missions for journalists to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2017), para. 35
- Original document
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- 9. Deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms and all violations of international humanitarian law by the Syrian authorities, the Government-affiliated shabbiha militias and those who fight on their behalf, including those deliberately targeting civilians or civilian objects, including attacks on schools, hospitals and places of worship, with heavy weapons, aerial bombardments, cluster munitions, ballistic missiles, barrel bombs, chemical or other weapons and other force against civilians, as well as the starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare, attacks on schools, hospitals and places of worship, massacres, arbitrary executions, extrajudicial killings, the killing and persecution of peaceful protestors, human rights defenders and journalists, individuals and members of communities on the basis of their religion or belief, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, violations of women’s and children’s rights, forced displacement of members of minority groups, unlawful interference with access to medical treatment, failure to respect and protect medical personnel, torture, systematic sexual and gender-based violence, including rape in detention, and ill-treatment;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine (2019), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Condemning the blocking by the Russian Federation of Ukrainian websites and television channels and the seizure of Ukrainian transmission frequencies in Crimea,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 51
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- 19. Underlines the value of national human rights institutions, established and operating in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles), in the continued engagement with human rights defenders, including environmental human rights defenders;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 12
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- Concerned that all forms of discrimination, including racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, can lead to the targeting or vulnerability to violence of women human rights defenders, who are prone to multiple, aggravated or intersecting forms of discrimination,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 18
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- 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,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2007), para. 25
- Original document
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- (a) To end the systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Myanmar, to fully implement the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur, the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights, the International Labour Organization and other United Nations bodies aimed at ensuring full respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms in Myanmar, and to allow human rights defenders to pursue their activities unhindered and to ensure their safety, security and freedom of movement in that pursuit;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cultural rights and the protection of cultural heritage (2016), para. 27
- Original document
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- 10. Calls for the safety and security of cultural rights defenders involved in the protection of cultural heritage to be protected, including by investigating and, where appropriate, bringing to justice anyone alleged to have harmed them;
- Topic(s)
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 10
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming also the importance of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and its full and effective implementation, and that promoting respect, support and protection for the activities of human rights defenders, including women and indigenous human rights defenders, is essential to the overall enjoyment of human rights and for the protection and conservation of the environment, including the rights to life, to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food and housing, safe drinking water and sanitation, and cultural rights,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2008), para. 41
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (g) To allow human rights defenders to pursue their activities unhindered and to ensure their safety, security and freedom of movement in that pursuit;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2015), para. 08
- Original document
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- 4. Welcomes the release of prisoners of conscience, stressing the important role of the political prisoner review committee and encouraging its continuation, urges the Government of Myanmar to continue the unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience, including all political activists and human rights defenders recently detained or convicted, and to provide for the full rehabilitation of former prisoners of conscience, welcomes the announcement of a mandate for the Interim Press Council to mediate disputes between journalists and the authorities, and encourages the Government to fulfil its commitment to protect the right to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, to allow for free and independent media and to take appropriate steps to ensure the safety and security of journalists, civil society activists and human rights defenders and their freedom to pursue their activities;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building for Mali in the field of human rights (2017), para. 24
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- 8. Welcomes the adoption by the Government of Mali of a national human rights policy that is supported by a plan of action and a law on the protection of human rights defenders and of a law on the organization and modes of operation of the National Human Rights Commission and the opening of regional offices of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, and encourages the Malian authorities to take all necessary steps to implement those new measures and to ensure the independence of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 21
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- 2. Calls upon all States to take all measures necessary to ensure the rights and safety of all persons, including human rights defenders, who exercise, inter alia, the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, peaceful assembly and association, which are essential for the promotion and protection of human rights;
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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. 39
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- (h) Information and communications technologies are not used in a manner that amounts to arbitrary or unlawful interference with the privacy of individuals or the intimidation of human rights defenders;
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- Civil & Political Rights
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility ofIndividuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2004), para. 07
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- Recalling that human rights defenders are entitled to equal protection of the law, and deeply concerned about any abuse of civil or criminal proceedings against them because of their activities for the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in the Sudan (2017), para. 15
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- 9. Also notes several positive developments, such as the recent separation of the attorney general’s office from the Ministry of Justice, the appointment on 16 May 2017 of a chairperson to the Sudan National Commission for Human Rights, the presidential pardon of 259 armed rebel movement members in Darfur, and also of two pastors who had been sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment, and acknowledges the general amnesty announced on 29 August 2017 of representatives of civil society and human rights activists, and on 4 September the release on bail of representatives of civil society;
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2016), para. 33
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- Stressing the need for 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 and harassment,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2015), para. 21
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- Expressing deep concern at the increased number of journalists and media workers who have been killed or detained in recent years as a direct result of their profession,
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- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2019), para. 45
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- (n) To implement fully the media protection law, to protect and uphold freedom of expression and a free media, to create a safe and enabling environment in which journalists and human rights defenders can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, to continue ongoing efforts to prohibit, prevent and protect against all kidnappings, killings, attacks, acts of intimidation and harassment of journalists, to initiate timely, effective, impartial and transparent investigations into the killings of journalists, and to prosecute all those responsible for unlawful acts in a manner that is in accordance with the provisions in the media protection law and is consistent with other applicable national and international legal obligations;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility ofIndividuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2003), para. 16
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- 2. Welcomes the reports of the Special Representative of the Secretary- General on human rights defenders 2 and her contribution to the effective promotion of the Declaration and improvement of the protection of human rights defenders worldwide;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Activists
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 36
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- 8. Encourages States to take the opportunity of the proclamation of 2 November as the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists to raise awareness regarding the issue of the safety of journalists and to launch concrete initiatives in this regard;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2018), para. 27
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- 1. Condemns unequivocally all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers, such as torture, killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention, expulsion, intimidation, threats and harassment, online and offline, including through attacks on or the forced closure of their offices and media outlets in both conflict and non-conflict situations;
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- Humanitarian
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 06
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- Taking note with appreciation of the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, endorsed by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination on 12 April 2012, in which United Nations agencies, funds and programmes were invited to work with Member States towards a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers in both conflict and non-conflict situations, with a view to strengthening peace, democracy and development worldwide,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
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- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 35
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- 16. Requests the Secretary-General, in view of the twentieth anniversary of the Declaration, to undertake a comprehensive assessment and analysis of progress, achievements and challenges related to the ways in which the Office of the High Commissioner, as well as other relevant United Nations offices and departments and relevant specialized agencies, including at the country level, within their respective mandates, give and can give due consideration to the Declaration and take into account the reports of the Special Rapporteur in their work, and assist States in strengthening the role and security of human rights defenders as called for by the General Assembly in its resolutions 62/152 of 18 December 2007, of 18 December 2009, 66/164 , and , recognizing that technical assistance and capacity-building are to be provided in consultation with, and with the consent of, the Member States concerned;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2018), para. 11
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- Expressing grave concern also at the remaining presence of extremism and violent extremist groups, terrorism and terrorist groups, and strongly condemning all violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law committed in the Syrian Arab Republic by any party to the conflict, in particular so-called ISIL (also known as Da’esh), Al-Nusrah Front, Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups, and militias fighting on behalf of the regime, and other violent extremist groups,
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- Humanitarian
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 17
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- 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,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Burundi (2018), para. 20
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- Deploring also the threats, intimidation and personal attacks being directed by representatives of the Government of Burundi against the members of the Commission of Inquiry, including during the interactive dialogues held by the Human Rights Council and the Third Committee,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Activists
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- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 16
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- Stressing that, in the exercise of the rights and freedoms referred to in the Declaration, human rights defenders, acting individually and in association with others, shall be subject only to such limitations as are in accordance with applicable international obligations and are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 24
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- Deeply concerned by all human rights violations and abuses committed in relation to the safety of journalists and media workers, including killing, torture, enforced disappearance, arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention, expulsion, intimidation, harassment, threats and other forms of violence,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2020), para. 15
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- Expressing grave concern also at the remaining presence of extremism and violent extremist groups, terrorists and terrorist groups, and strongly condemning all violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law committed in the Syrian Arab Republic by any party to the conflict, in particular so-called ISIL (also known as Da’esh), the Nusrah Front, Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups, militias fighting on behalf of the regime, and other violent extremist groups,
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 45
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- 12. Condemns unequivocally measures taken by States in violation of international human rights law aiming to or that intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or the dissemination of information online and offline, aiming to undermine the work of journalists in informing the public, including measures to unduly restrict, block or take down media websites, such as denial of service attacks, and calls upon all States to cease and refrain from these measures, which cause irreparable harm to efforts at building inclusive and peaceful knowledge societies and democracies;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2006), para. 20
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- 4. Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures to ensure the protection of human rights defenders, at both the local and the national levels, including in times of conflict and peacebuilding;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2016), para. 06
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- Recalling that, amid expressions of popular discontent over restrictions on the enjoyment of civil, political, economic and social rights, civilian protests erupted in Dar’a in March 2011, and noting that the excessive and violent oppression of civilian protests by the Syrian authorities, which later escalated to the direct shelling of civilian population areas, fuelled the escalation of armed violence and extremist groups, including so-called ISIL (also known as Da’esh),
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Activists
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- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 53
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- 21. Encourages leaders in all sectors of society and in their respective communities, including political, military, social and religious leaders and leaders in business and the media, to express public support for the important and legitimate role of human rights defenders in society, including women human rights defenders, and in any cases of violence and discrimination against them to take a clear stance in rejection of such practices;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights andFundamental Freedoms (2010), para. 22
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- 7. Also urges States to take appropriate measures to address the question of impunity for attacks, threats and acts of intimidation, including cases of gender-based violence, against human rights defenders and their relatives, including by ensuring that complaints from human rights defenders are promptly investigated and addressed in a transparent, independent and accountable manner;
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Activists
- Families
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 40
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- 7. Encourages States to take the opportunity of the proclamation of 2 November as the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists to raise awareness regarding the issue of the safety of journalists and to launch concrete initiatives in this regard;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights andFundamental Freedoms (2010), para. 17
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- 2. Welcomes the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights defenders 4F 5 and her contribution to the effective promotion of the Declaration and the improvement of the protection of human rights defenders worldwide;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 29
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- 5. Condemns all acts of intimidation and reprisal, both online and offline, by State and non-State actors against individuals, groups and organs of society, including against human rights defenders and their legal representatives, associates and family members, who seek to cooperate, are cooperating or have cooperated with subregional, regional and international bodies, including the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms, in the field of human rights, and strongly calls upon all States to give effect to the right of everyone, individually and in association with others, to unhindered access to and communication with international bodies, including the United Nations, its special procedures, the universal periodic review mechanism and the treaty bodies, as well as regional human rights mechanisms;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Families
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility ofIndividuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2004), para. 16
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- Recalling that the primary responsibility for promoting and protecting human rights rests with the State, and noting with deep concern that the activities of some non-State actors pose a major threat to the security of human rights defenders,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2009), para. 11
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- (f) Ongoing, systemic and serious restrictions of freedom of peaceful assembly and association and freedom of opinion and expression, including those imposed on the media, Internet users and trade unions, and increasing harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents and human rights defenders from all sectors of Iranian society, including arrests and violent repression of labour leaders, labour members peacefully assembling and students, in particular with regard to the 2008 Majles electoral process;
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- Civil & Political Rights
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- Activists
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2020), para. 12
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- Recalling that, amid expressions of popular discontent over restrictions on the enjoyment of civil, political, economic and social rights, civilian protests erupted in Dar’a in March 2011, and noting that the violent oppression of civilian protests by the Syrian regime, which later escalated to the direct shelling of civilians, fuelled the escalation of armed violence and violent extremist groups and terrorist groups,
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in the Sudan (2016), para. 28
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- 14. Expresses serious concern at reports of the closure of some non- governmental organizations and restrictions on the media, pre- and post-publication censorship, the seizure of newspapers and the banning of some journalists, and at violations of the rights to freedom of expression, freedom of association and peaceful assembly, including of students, human rights defenders and members of civil society organizations;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 17
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- Recognizing the urgent need to address, and to take concrete steps to prevent and stop, the use of legislation to hinder or limit unduly the ability of human rights defenders, including women 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 States’ obligations and commitments under international human rights law,
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in South Sudan (2018), para. 17
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- Emphasizing the importance of good governance and the rule of law as key elements of conflict prevention, peacekeeping, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, expressing particular concern at the undue reduction of democratic space in South Sudan, including through undue restrictions on freedom of expression and the freedoms of peaceful assembly and association, attacks on journalists and media workers, and the limitations on the operations of civil society, human rights defenders and the media, and stressing the responsibility of the Government of South Sudan to address these issues in the interest of fostering an open and inclusive political environment,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
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- Activists
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), para. 31
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- (o) To take measures to protect human rights defenders who provide support to women who have been subjected to violence;
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- Violence
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- Activists
- Women
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests (2013), para. 25
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- 6. Urges States to pay particular attention to the safety and protection of women and women human rights defenders from gender-based violence, including sexual assault in the context of peaceful protests;
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2012), para. 077
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- 52. Stresses the need to ensure respect for the right to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of thought, conscience or belief as enshrined in the Afghan Constitution, in this regard calls for full implementation of the mass media law, while noting with concern and condemning the continuing intimidation and violence targeting Afghan journalists, such as cases of abduction and even killing of journalists by terrorist as well as extremist and criminal groups, and urges that harassment and attacks on journalists be investigated by Afghan authorities and that those responsible be brought to justice;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2016), para. 16
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- Expressing further serious concern at attacks and violence against journalists and media workers in situations of armed conflict, and recalling in this regard that journalists and media workers engaged in dangerous professional missions in areas of armed conflict shall be considered civilians and shall be protected as such, provided that they take no action adversely affecting their status as civilians,
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 05
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- Noting also with deep concern the considerable number of communications received by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders that, together with the reports submitted by some of the special procedure mechanisms, indicate the serious nature of the risks faced by human rights defenders,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Central African Republic (2019), para. 33
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- 2. Also strongly condemns the targeted attacks launched by armed groups against civilians, against humanitarian workers, against health workers, against humanitarian supplies and against United Nations staff, including those committed by armed groups in the Paoua area on 21 May 2019 and in Birao on 1 September 2019, when a total of 55 persons and 26 persons, respectively, most of them civilians, were killed;
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2018), para. 38
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- (j) To implement fully the media protection law, to protect and uphold freedom of expression and a free media, to create a safe and enabling environment in which journalists and human rights defenders can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, to continue efforts to prohibit, prevent and protect against all kidnappings, killings, attacks, acts of intimidation and harassment of journalists, to initiate timely, effective, impartial and transparent investigations into the killings of journalists, and to prosecute all those responsible for unlawful acts in a manner that is in accordance with the provisions in the media protection law and is consistent with other applicable national and international legal obligations;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2006), para. 11
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- Gravely concerned that, in some instances, national security and counter- terrorism legislation and other measures have been misused to target human rights defenders or have hindered their work and safety in a manner contrary to international law,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Belarus (2007), para. 11
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- (d) About the continuing and expanding criminal prosecutions, lack of due process and closed political trials of leading opposition figures and human rights defenders;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and accountability concerning the events in the Kasai regions (2017), para. 08
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- Strongly condemning the killing of two members of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1533 (2004) of 12 March 2004, Ms. Zaida Catalán and Mr. Michael Sharp, who were killed in Central Kasai while discharging their mandate,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibilityof Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2008), para. 21
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- 5. 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, expeditious and inexpensive procedures in accordance with national legislation;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2019), para. 36
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- 18. Further encourages the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to take appropriate measures to ensure the smooth functioning of all agencies responsible for monitoring respect for human rights, including the Human Rights Liaison Unit, the National Human Rights Commission, the Interministerial Committee on Human Rights, the National Commission for the Universal Periodic Review and the unit for the protection of human rights defenders;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2012), para. 09
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- 2. Strongly condemns the continued widespread and systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities, such as the use of force against civilians, arbitrary executions, the killing and persecution of protestors, human rights defenders and journalists, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, interference with access to medical treatment, torture, sexual violence, and ill-treatment, including against children;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2018), para. 33
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- 20. Welcomes the release of political prisoners in accordance with the obligation of the Government of Myanmar, and calls upon the Government to ensure that no one remains in prison because of his or her political or religious beliefs, including those recently detained or convicted, human rights defenders and students;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 06
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- Stressing, in this regard, that all human rights and fundamental freedoms apply to all persons equally, including human rights defenders in the context of the Declaration, and that these rights and freedoms must be respected, protected and fulfilled without discrimination,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2016), para. 41
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- 13. Emphasizes that, in the digital age, encryption and anonymity tools have become vital for many journalists to exercise freely their work and their enjoyment of human rights, in particular their rights to freedom of expression and to privacy, including to secure their communications and to protect the confidentiality of their sources, and calls upon States not to interfere with the use of such technologies, with any restrictions thereon complying with States’ obligations under international human rights law;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2006), para. 21
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- (f) The continuing denial of the freedom of human rights defenders to pursue their legitimate activities;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (2017), para. 14
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- Recognizing the urgent need to address, and to take 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,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 14
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- Underscoring that the legal framework within which human rights defenders work peacefully to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms is that of national legislation consistent with the Charter and international human rights law,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2020), para. 19
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- 16. Further calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the judicial and security branches, to create and maintain, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment in which an independent, diverse and pluralistic civil society can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, and urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to end widespread and serious restrictions, in law and in practice, on the right to freedom of expression and opinion, including in digital contexts, and the rights to freedom of association and peaceful assembly, and to end its harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, women’s and minority rights defenders, labour and trade union activists, students’ rights defenders, environmentalists, academics, film-makers, journalists, bloggers, social media users and social media page administrators, media workers, religious leaders, artists, lawyers, including human rights lawyers, and their families and persons belonging to recognized and unrecognized religious minorities and their families, wherever it may occur;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 26
- Original document
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- Acknowledging also the particular vulnerability of journalists to becoming targets of unlawful or arbitrary surveillance or interception of communications in violation of their rights to privacy and to freedom of expression,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2004), para. 23
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- (i) The continuing persecution and arbitrary sentencing to prison of human rights defenders, political opponents, religious dissenters and reformists;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 33
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- 10. Calls upon States to combat impunity by conducting prompt, impartial and independent investigations and pursuing accountability for all attacks and threats by State and non-State actors against any human rights defender, or against lawyers and legal representatives, journalists and media workers covering these issues, as well as against their family members and their associates, and by condemning publicly all cases of violence, discrimination, intimidation and reprisal, underlining that such practices can never be justified;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Families
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 006
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- 2. Encourages States to take the Guidelines into account and to bring them to the attention of the relevant executive, legislative and judiciary bodies of government, human rights defenders and lawyers, the media and the public in general;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2018), para. 47
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- 20. Calls upon Israel to end all harassment, threats, intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders and civil society actors who peacefully advocate for the rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including by cooperating with United Nations human rights bodies, and underscores the need to investigate all such acts, ensure accountability and effective remedies, and to take steps to prevent any further such threats, attacks, reprisals or acts of intimidation;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (2014), para. 18
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- 5. Underlines the value of national human rights institutions, established and operating in accordance with the Paris Principles, in the continued monitoring of existing legislation and consistently informing the State about the impact of such legislation on the activities of human rights defenders, including by making relevant and concrete recommendations;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2011), para. 15
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- (j) The continuing harassment, intimidation and persecution, including by arbitrary arrest, detention or disappearance, as well as violent repression of, inter alia, political opponents, human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists and other media representatives, Internet providers, Internet users, bloggers, clerics, academics, students and labour leaders from all sectors of Iranian society, noting in particular the continuing harassment and detention of staff members of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2007), para. 23
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- (f) The continuing denial of the freedom of human rights defenders to pursue their activities;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility ofIndividuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2003), para. 14
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- Emphasizing the need for strong and effective measures for the protection of human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 56
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- 24. Encourages national human rights institutions to pay due attention to the situation of human rights defenders, including through consultations with relevant stakeholders on issues such as legislation, policies and administrative measures that affect the defence of human rights, and to develop and support the documentation of violations and abuses against human rights defenders in a comprehensive manner;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2010), para. 15
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- (a) Harassment, intimidation and persecution, including by arbitrary arrest, detention or disappearance, of opposition members, journalists and other media representatives, bloggers, lawyers, clerics, human rights defenders, academics, students and others exercising their rights to peaceful assembly and association and freedom of opinion and expression, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 26
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- 3. Urges all States to take all measures necessary to ensure the rights, protection and safety of all persons, including environmental human rights defenders, who exercise, inter alia, the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, peaceful assembly and association, online and offline, which are essential for the promotion and protection of human rights and the protection and conservation of the environment;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1998), para. 12
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- (e) At violations of the right to peaceful assembly and restrictions on the freedoms of expression, thought, opinion and the press, as well as at the harassment and intimidation of writers and journalists seeking to exercise their freedom of expression, the sentencing of the writer Faraj Sarkuhi being only the most recent example of such unacceptable practices;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 13
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- Reaffirming also that national legislation consistent with the Charter of the United Nations and other international obligations of the State in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms is the juridical framework within which human rights defenders conduct their activities,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia: violations of human rights in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) (1994), para. 42
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- (c) Arbitrary imprisonment of ethnic Albanian journalists, the closure of Albanian-language mass media and the discriminatory removal of ethnic Albanian staff from local radio and television stations;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2019), para. 25
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- (c) To consider reviewing all proposed and existing legislation in accordance with international human rights obligations and a gender- and age-responsive perspective, and repealing discriminatory laws with a view to preventing retrogression, involving, when necessary, independent experts, national human rights institutions, women human rights defenders, women’s and girls’ community-based organizations, feminist groups, youth-led organizations and other relevant stakeholders;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 50
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- 18. Calls upon States to cooperate with relevant United Nations entities, in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as well as international and regional human rights mechanisms, including the relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council, and invites States to share information on a voluntary basis on the status of investigations into attacks and violence against journalists, including in response to requests by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization through the mechanism operated by its International Programme for the Development of Communication;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 28
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- 14. Encourages States to promote awareness and training in regard to the Declaration in order to enable officials, agencies, authorities and the judiciary to observe the provisions of the Declaration and thus to promote better understanding and respect for human rights defenders;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 54
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- 22. Underscores the responsibility of all business enterprises, both transnational and others, in accordance with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, to respect human rights, including the rights to life, liberty and security of person of human rights defenders, including environmental human rights defenders, and their exercise of the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, and participation in public affairs, which are essential for the promotion and protection of all human rights, and the importance that business enterprises establish or participate in effective and accessible operational-level grievance mechanisms for individuals and communities who may be adversely impacted;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of association (2019), para. 03
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- Recalling its resolution 53/144 of 9 December 1998, by which it adopted by consensus the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Right s and Fundamental Freedoms, commonly referred to as the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, and all its subsequent resolutions on this subject, including its resolutions 66/164 of 19 December 2011, of 18 December 2013, of 17 December 2015 and 72/247 of 24 December 2017, and recalling also all United Nations resolutions related to the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association and all resolutions of the Human Rights Council on human rights defenders, civil society space, safety of journalists, equal political participation, promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance to Côte d’Ivoire in the field of human rights (2012), para. 11
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- 2. Condemns and deplores in particular the killing of seven United Nations peacekeepers on 8 June 2012 in the town of Para while they were assisting the civilian population under attack by unidentified armed elements;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2018), para. 27
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- 11. Condemns in the strongest terms all unlawful acts of violence, intimidation and attacks, including improvised explosive device attacks, suicide attacks, assassinations, including of public figures, abductions, indiscriminate att acks against civilians, killings, attacks against individuals, media groups and organs of society engaged in the promotion and protection of universally recognized human rights, attacks against humanitarian and medical personnel and civilian objects, inclu ding schools and hospitals, and the targeting of Afghan and international forces, which have a deleterious effect on stabilization and development efforts in Afghanistan, and also condemns the use, by the Taliban, including the Haqqani Network, Al-Qaida and other terrorist and violent extremist groups and illegal armed groups, of civilians as human shields, as well as Taliban attacks and acts of international terrorists;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Burundi (2019), para. 30
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- 11. Expresses deep concern at the continued acts of intimidation and harassment against civil society and the arbitrary arrest, detention and criminalization of human rights defenders and civil society activists, and urges the Government of Burundi not to impose measures that restrict the capacity of non-governmental organizations to operate in a safe and enabling environment;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (2004), para. 22
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- 10. Notes with concern the climate of intimidation against justice officials, human rights defenders, social activists and journalists;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Burundi (2019), para. 20
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- 1. Condemns in the strongest terms all persistent human rights violations and abuses in Burundi, particularly those involving extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, arbitrary arrest and detention, acts of torture and of other ill-treatment, all acts of violence, including sexual and gender-based violence, persecution directed against members of civil society, journalists and bloggers, members of the political opposition and demonstrators, and severe restrictions on the freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly and association and of movement, contributing to creating a climate of fear and intimidation among the population;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility ofIndividuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2003), para. 07
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- Concerned by the considerable number of communications received by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders that, together with the reports submitted by some of the special procedure mechanisms, indicate the serious nature of the risks faced by human rights defenders and the particular consequences for women human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 58
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- 26. Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner, in consultation with the Special Rapporteurs and other special procedures, to continue to compile and share information on best practices and challenges in this regard, and also encourages the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to continue to address the situation of human rights defenders, including good practices and challenges, in his work and reporting, including through collaboration and coordination with relevant United Nations agencies, organizations and mechanisms, the treaty bodies and other relevant special procedures, in accordance with the mandate;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2015), para. 31
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- 7. Calls upon States to create and maintain, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment for journalists to perform their work independently and without undue interference, including by means of: (a) legislative measures; (b) awareness- raising in the judiciary and among law enforcement officers and military personnel, as well as among journalists and in civil society, regarding international human rights and humanitarian law obligations and commitments relating to the safety of journalists; (c) the monitoring and reporting of attacks against journalists; (d) publicly and systematically condemning violence and attacks; and (e) dedicating the resources necessary to investigate and prosecute such attacks and to develop and implement strategies for combating impunity for attacks and violence against journalists, including by using, where appropriate, good practices such as those identified in Human Rights Council resolution 27/5 of 25 September 2014; 8
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 33
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- (c) Condemning acts of violence against women involved in political processes and public debate, including women parliamentarians, political candidates and human rights defenders, by, inter alia, adopting legal and practical measures to prevent and punish such acts;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2018), para. 34
- Original document
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- 21. Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to fulfil its commitment to release unconditionally all remaining political prisoners and to provide for the full rehabilitation of former political prisoners, and to amend restrictive laws and to end remaining curbs on exercising the rights to the freedoms of religion or belief, expression, association and peaceful assembly, which are essential to ensure a safe and enabling environment, notably for civil society, journalists, human rights defenders, lawyers, environmental and land rights activists and civilians, and expresses concern at reports of the arrest of individuals in relation to the exercise of those rights;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2016), para. 34
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- (f) The establishment of an early warning and rapid response mechanism to give journalists, when threatened, immediate access to the authorities and protective measures;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2016), para. 14
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- Deeply concerned by all human rights violations and abuses committed in relation to the safety of journalists and media workers, including killing, torture, enforced disappearance, arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention, expulsion, intimidation, harassment, threats and acts of other forms of violence,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility ofIndividuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2004), para. 15
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- Welcoming also regional initiatives for the promotion and protection of human rights and the cooperation between international and regional mechanisms for the protection of human rights defenders, and encouraging further development in this regard,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2019), para. 13
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- Expressing grave concern also at the remaining presence of extremism and violent extremist groups, terrorism and terrorist groups, and strongly condemning all violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law committed in the Syrian Arab Republic by any party to the conflict, in particular so-called ISIL (also known as Da’esh), Nusrah Front, Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups, militias fighting on behalf of the regime and other violent extremist groups,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 06
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- Taking note with appreciation of the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, endorsed by the United Nations System Chief __________________ Executives Board for Coordination on 12 April 2012, in which United Nations agencies, funds and programmes were invited to work with Member States towards a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers in both conflict and non-conflict situations, with a view to strengthening peace, democracy and development worldwide,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 29
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- 6. Urges States to acknowledge, through public statements, policies, programmes or laws, the important and legitimate role of human rights defenders in the promotion of all human rights, democracy and the rule of law as essential components of ensuring their protection, including by respecting the independence of their organizations and by avoiding the stigmatization of their work, including with regard to the environment;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 27
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- 4. Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, including his reports presented to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, and strongly encourages all States to cooperate with and to assist the Special Rapporteur;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 06
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- Acknowledging the attention given by the Human Rights Council to the importance of women human rights defenders and of ensuring their protection and enabling their work in recent resolutions, and noting the panel discussion on women human rights defenders convened on 26 June 2012,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibilityof Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2008), para. 10
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- Recognizing the substantial role that human rights defenders can play in supporting efforts to strengthen peace and development, through dialogue, openness, participation and justice, including by monitoring, reporting on and contributing to the promotion and protection of human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 26
- Original document
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- Recognizing the important role that national human rights institutions, where they exist, can play in promoting and protecting human rights, including the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and in addressing human rights violations and abuses against journalists through monitoring, educating and awareness -raising activities, as well as through the examination of complaints, and recognizing further that national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up can contribute to the prevention of human rights violations and abuses against journalists,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Safety of journalists (2012), para. 31
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- 12. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, to prepare, working in consultation with States and other relevant stakeholders, a compilation of good practices in the protection of journalists, the prevention of attacks and the fight against impunity for attacks committed against journalists, and to present the compilation in a report to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-fourth session.
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2016), para. 22
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- 6. Expresses concern at the attacks against and harassment of human rights defenders, including journalists, in Somalia, and urges the authorities to continue efforts to prohibit, prevent and protect against all kidnapping, killings, attacks, acts of intimidation and harassment of journalists, in order to promote respect for the freedom of expression and opinion and to end the culture of impunity, holding accountable those who commit any such related crimes;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 44
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- 20. Also recognizes the important and legitimate role of human rights defenders in identifying and raising awareness of human rights impacts, the benefits and risks of development projects and business operations, including in relation to workplace health, safety and rights, natural resource exploitation and environmental, land and development issues, by expressing their views, concerns, support, criticism or dissent regarding government policy or action or business activities, and underlines the need for Governments to take the measures necessary to safeguard space for such public dialogue and its participants;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 36
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- 12. Calls upon States to take concrete steps to prevent and put an end to arbitrary arrest and detention, including of human rights defenders, and in this regard strongly urges the release of persons detained or imprisoned, in violation of the obligations and commitments of States under international human rights law, for exercising their human rights and fundamental freedoms, such as the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, including in relation to cooperation with the United Nations or other international mechanisms in the area of human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 42
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- 14. Emphasizes that, in the digital age, encryption and anonymity tools have become vital for many journalists to freely exercise their work and their enjoyment of human rights, in particular their rights to freedom of expression and to privacy , including to secure their communications and to protect the confidentiality of their sources, and calls upon States not to interfere with the use of such technologies and to ensure that any restrictions thereon comply with States’ obligations under international human rights law;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 36
- Paragraph text
- 13. Strongly condemns reprisals and violence against and the targeting, criminalization, intimidation, arbitrary detention, torture, disappearance and killing of any individual, including human rights defenders, for their advocacy of human rights, for reporting and seeking information on human rights violations and abuses or for cooperating with national, regional and international mechanisms;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel (2018), para. 21
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- Strongly condemning all acts of violence, attacks and threats against humanitarian personnel, expressing profound regret at the deaths, injuries and abductions resulting from these attacks, noting with concern that there were 158 recorded attacks against humanitarian personnel in 2016, resulting in at least 101 personnel killed, 98 injured and 89 abducted, 10 and noting with concern that casualties continue to take a heavier toll on personnel of non-governmental organizations than on United Nations personnel, 11
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Persons on the move
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 26
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- 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
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- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 11
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- Recognizing the positive, important and legitimate role played by human rights defenders in the promotion and protection of human rights as they relate to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and deeply concerned that human rights defenders working in environmental matters, referred to as environmental human rights defenders, are among the human rights defenders most exposed and at risk,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2010), para. 11
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- (f) Ongoing, systemic and serious restrictions of freedom of peaceful assembly and association and freedom of opinion and expression, including those imposed on the media, Internet users and trade unions, and increasing harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents and human rights defenders from all sectors of Iranian society, including arrests and violent repression of labour leaders, labour members peacefully assembling and students, noting in particular the forced closure of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre and the subsequent arrest and harassment of a number of its staff;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibilityof Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2008), para. 20
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- 4. Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures to ensure the protection of human rights defenders, at both the local and the national levels, including in times of armed conflict and peacebuilding;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2015), para. 18
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- (j) Continued harassment, at times amounting to persecution, and human rights violations against persons belonging to recognized religious minorities, including Christians, Jews, Sufi Muslims, Sunni Muslims and Zoroastrians and their defenders, noting in particular the arbitrary arrest and detention of Sufi Muslims, Sunni Muslims and evangelical Christians, including the continued detention of Christian pastors;
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- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 34
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- 8. Urges Member States to do their utmost to prevent violence, threats and attacks against journalists and media workers, to ensure accountability through the conduct of impartial, speedy, thorough, independent and effective investigations into all alleged violence, threats and attacks against journalists and media workers falling within their jurisdiction, to bring perpetrators, including those who command, conspire to commit, aid and abet or cover up such crimes to justice, and to ensure that victims and their fa milies have access to appropriate remedies;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Cuba (1997), para. 15
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- 7. Calls upon the Government of Cuba to carry out the recommendations contained in the interim report of the Special Rapporteur to bring its observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cuba into conformity with international standards and applicable international human rights instruments and to end all violations of human rights including, in particular, the detention and imprisonment of human rights defenders and others who are engaged in the peaceful exercise of their rights, and to grant access to its prisons to non-governmental humanitarian organizations and international humanitarian agencies;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Sudan (2000), para. 30
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- (i) The widespread use of torture and arbitrary detention affecting, inter alia, human rights defenders, journalists and political opponents, as well as the lack of due process of law and acts of intimidation and harassment of the population, in particular by the security organs;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and the environment (2018), para. 14
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- Recognizing also the important role played by human rights defenders in the promotion and protection of human rights as they relate to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and deeply concerned that human rights defenders addressing environmental issues and corporate responsibility are among the human rights defenders most exposed and at risk,
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- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka (2014), para. 14
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- Expressing deep concern at reported intimidation and retaliation against civil society members who engage with United Nations human rights mechanisms, including those who met with the High Commissioner during her visit,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (2019), para. 14
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- Acknowledging the ongoing efforts of human rights defenders, journalists, health professionals, politicians, civil servants and other civil society stakeholders in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to call attention to and document violations and abuses of international human rights law,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka (2014), para. 31
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- 4. Urges the Government of Sri Lanka to investigate all alleged attacks by individuals and groups on journalists, human rights defenders, members of religious minority groups and other members of civil society, as well as on temples, mosques and churches, and also urges the Government to hold perpetrators of such attacks to account and to take steps to prevent such attacks in the future;
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- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 19
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- Emphasizing the role of international cooperation in support of national efforts to prevent attacks and violence against journalists and in raising the capacities of States in the field of human rights, including in preventing attacks and violence against journalists, including through the provision of technical assistance, upon the request of and in accordance with the priorities set by the States concerned,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2007), para. 25
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- Condemning recent cases of the abduction and even killing of journalists and other civilians by terrorist and extremist groups,
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights andFundamental Freedoms (2010), para. 05
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- Gravely concerned that, in some instances, national security and counter-terrorism legislation and other measures have been misused to target human rights defenders or have hindered their work and safety in a manner contrary to international law,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2018), para. 37
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- (d) Establishing or enhancing information-gathering and monitoring mechanisms, such as databases, to permit the collecting, analysis and reporting of concrete quantitative and qualitative disaggregated data on threats, attacks or violence against journalists;
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2015), para. 07
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- Recalling that, amid expressions of popular discontent over restrictions on the enjoyment of civil, political, economic and social rights, civilian protests erupted in Dar’a in March 2011, and noting that the excessive and violent oppression of civilian protests by the Syrian authorities, which later escalated to the direct shelling of civilian population areas, fuelled the escalation of armed violence and extremist groups,
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2019), para. 09
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- Recognizing the work of Palestinian, Israeli and international civil society actors and human rights defenders in documenting and countering violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in parts of South-Eastern Europe (2001), para. 29
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- 13. Further condemns the manipulation of the press by political parties and government officials, including the selective application of slander and tax laws to harass journalists and editors;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 23
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- 9. Urges States to ensure that complaints from human rights defenders are investigated and addressed in a transparent, independent and accountable manner;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 41
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- 17. Also underlines the value of national human rights institutions, established and operating in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles), 11 in the continued engagement with human rights defenders and in the monitoring of existing legislation and consistently informing the State about its impact on the activities of human rights defenders, including by making relevant and concrete recommendations;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 14
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- Recalling that the primary responsibility for promoting and protecting human rights rests with the State, and noting with deep concern that the activities of some non-State actors pose a major threat to the security of human rights defenders,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2020), para. 68
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- 37. Urgently requests the convening of a high-level panel discussion, funded by voluntary contributions, led by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, the Commission of Inquiry and Syrian civil society to brief the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session on the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic, and encourages United Nations monitoring and reporting to help this panel to further document violations of international humanitarian law and violations and abuses of human rights, including those that may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes, to provide recommendations to facilitate improvements in civilian protection and accountability measures, and to feature witness testimony of Syrian human rights defenders and other Syrian voices through appropriate and safe means;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2018), para. 16
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- 13. Also calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the judicial and security branches, to create and maintain, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment in which an independent, diverse and pluralistic civil society can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to end widespread and serious restrictions, in law and in practice, on the right to free dom of expression, opinion, association and peaceful assembly, both online and offline, including by ending the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, women’s and minority rights activists, labour leaders, students’ rights activists, academics, film-makers, journalists, bloggers, social media users and social media page administrators, media workers, religious leaders, artists, lawyers and persons belonging to recognized and unrecognized religious minorities and their families, and further calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to release persons arbitrarily detained for the legitimate exercise of these rights, to consider rescinding unduly harsh sentences, including the death penalty and long - term internal exile, for exercising such fundamental freedoms and to end reprisals against individuals, including for cooperating with the United Nations human rights mechanisms;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Central African Republic (2018), para. 30
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- 2. Also strongly condemns the targeted attacks launched by armed groups against civilians, against humanitarian workers and supplies and against United Nations staff;
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine) (2017), para. 19
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- (e) To create and maintain a safe and enabling environment for journalists and human rights defenders to perform their work independently and without undue interference in Crimea;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2016), para. 21
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- Recognizing the crucial role of journalists and media workers in the context of elections, including to inform the public about candidates, their platforms and ongoing debates, and expressing serious concern that attacks against journalists and media workers increase during periods of elections,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 16
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- Gravely concerned that, in some instances, national security and counter- terrorism legislation and other measures have been misused to target human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, or have hindered their work and endangered their safety in a manner contrary to international law,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to information (2005), para. 149
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- 110. Congratulates the United Nations Correspondents Association on its Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial Scholarship Fund, which sponsors journalists from developing countries to come to the United Nations Headquarters and report on the activities during the General Assembly, and urges donors to extend financial support to the Fund so that it may increase the number of such scholarships to journalists in this context;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 21
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- Stressing the importance of meaningful participation of human rights defenders in the implementation of the Declaration, and reaffirming the right of everyone, individually and in association with others, to unhindered access to and communication with international bodies, in particular the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights, including the Human Rights Council and its special procedures, the universal periodic review mechanism and treaty bodies, as well as regional human rights mechanisms, in accordance with their respective mandates, existing rules of procedure and modalities, without fear of reprisals,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and the environment (2017), para. 45
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- 7. Recognizes the important role played by individuals, groups and organs of society, including human rights defenders, in the promotion and protection of human rights as they relate to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, including biodiversity and ecosystems;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 18
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- Urging States to do their utmost to prevent violence, intimidation, threats and attacks against journalists and media workers, including by supporting capacity - building, training and awareness-raising in the judiciary and among law enforcement officers and military and security personnel, as well as among media organizations, journalists and civil society, regarding States’ international human rights and international humanitarian law obligations and commitments relating to the safety of journalists,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 09
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- Taking note of all relevant reports of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council with regard to the safety of journalists, as well as the reports of the Special Rapporteurs on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression 12 and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, submitted to the Council at its twenty-ninth session, and the interactive dialogue thereon,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests (2013), para. 31
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- 12. Underlines the necessity to address the management of assemblies, such as peaceful protests, so as to contribute to their peaceful conduct, and to prevent loss of life of, and injuries to, protestors, bystanders, those monitoring such protests, and law enforcement officials, as well as any human rights violations or abuses;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights andFundamental Freedoms (2010), para. 06
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- Gravely concerned also by the continuing high level of human rights violations committed against persons engaged in promoting and defending human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world and by the fact that in many countries impunity for threats, attacks and acts of intimidation against human rights defenders persists and that this has a negative impact on their work and safety,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 36
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- 3. Strongly condemns the prevailing impunity for attacks and violence against journalists, and expresses concern that the vast majority of these crimes go unpunished, which in turn contributes to the recurrence of these crimes;
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- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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