Around the world, people are speaking up and working to defend human rights, frequently at risk to their safety, freedom or life. All too often, these human rights defenders (HRDs) are labelled as “criminals”, “foreign agents”, “terrorists” or threats to “development” or “traditional values”. Many suffer violations of the very rights they defend. They are harassed and intimidated, unjustly prosecuted and imprisoned. Some are tortured, killed or forcibly disappeared.
Defending Defenders? An Assessment of EU Action on Human Rights Defenders
Topics
- Burundi
- China
- Detention
- Disappearances
- EU
- Europe and Central Asia
- Freedom of Association
- Freedom of Movement
- Honduras
- Human Rights Defenders and Activists
- Impunity
- Indigenous People
- Killings and Disappearances
- LGBTI Rights
- Protests and Demonstrations
- Report
- Research
- Saudi Arabia
- Torture and other ill-treatment
- Women and Girls