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- “Promoting EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders” Case studies: DRC and India - Congo, Democratic Republic of, India
1 October | Front Line Defenders - Nepal : 258 dark days - Nepal
1 October | Protection International (former PBI BEO) - Human Rights Defenders in the State of Guerrero - Mexico
1 July | PBI Mexico Project - Front Line Handbook for Human Rights Defenders: What protection can EU and Norwegian Diplomatic Missions offer?*
27 June | Front Line Defenders - The manual
28 May |
Non-Governmental Organisations working on Human Rights Defenders
Section dedicated to the defenders programm of Amnesty International
The International Campaign on Women Human Rights Defenders is an international initiative for the recognition and protection of women who are activists advocating for the realization of all human rights for all. The campaign asserts that women fighting for human rights and particularly focusing on women’s human rights face specific violations in the course of their work because of their sex and gender. In addition, the Campaign focuses on the situation of human rights activists defending women’s rights and in particular calls attention to the violations experienced by lesbian, gay, bisxeual, transgender and other rights activists on grounds of their sex and gender identities. The identities of these actors as well as the nature of the rights they strive to uphold are both factors that make them the focus of the Campaign
Created in 2001, in Luxembourg, the European Bar Human Rights Institute (IDHAE) has as its objective:
- the monitoring of human rights protection particularly under the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of November 4th, 1950 and its Protocols as well as the Charter of Fundamental rights of the European union.
- the training of lawyers in international human rights law particularly relating to the rights of the defence before the international jurisdiction and criminal courts. .
- interventions, regardless of the limitations of borders, in favour of freedom and the fundamental rights of lawyers.
- the organisation of workshops, symposia and seminars related to publications on international human rights law.
- the presentation of a European Human Rights Prize to a lawyer.
Front Line was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting Human Rights Defenders, people who work, non-violently, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Front Line aims to address some of the needs identified by defenders themselves, including protection, networking, training and access to the thematic and country mechanisms of the UN and other regional bodies.
Special page on Human Rights Defenders
Section dedicated especially to the defenders programm of Human Rights Watch
The main task is to receive information on the situation of human rights defenders in the Americas, to maintain contacts with nongovernmental and governmental organizations and to coordinate the work of the Executive Secretariat related to the defenders of human rights in the Americas.
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The IBAHRI works to promote, protect and enforce human rights under a just rule of law in a variety of ways. These include: training lawyers, judges and prosecutors in human rights law and international humanitarian law; pioneering training programmes to strengthen the judiciary in post-conflict countries or countries where basic state infrastructure may have been eroded; undertaking fact-finding missions and sending trial observers to countries where the rule of law has deteriorated; making representations to authorities worldwide where individuals or the independence of the judiciary has been threatened; galvanising international support to lobby for change through media and advocacy campaigns; and providing long-term technical assistance to under-resourced Bar Associations and Law Societies.
The Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, created in 1993, is granted annually to someone who has demonstrated an exceptional record of combating human rights violations by courageous and innovative means. The prize aims to encourage human rights defenders who are in need of protection. The value of the award is 20,000 Swiss Francs, to be used for further work in the field of human rights.
The New Tactics in Human Rights Project, led by a diverse group of international organizations and practitioners, promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community. Strategic and tactical thinking, long used by business and military strategists, is an effective means for the human rights movement to expand options and possibilities of what can be done. Innovative tactics are emerging that may more effectively advance human rights and end persistent human rights problems. Many innovations have been valuable, yet are not well known outside their regions.
Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) which protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts.
When invited, we send teams of volunteers into areas of repression and conflict. The volunteers accompany human rights defenders, their organizations and others threatened by political violence.
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project is designed to strengthen the work of human rights defenders in the sub-region by reducing their vulnerability to the risk of persecution and by enhancing their capacity for effectiveness in defending human rights. It focuses on Somalia (together with Somaliland), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Much of this region has experienced massive human rights abuses going back many years, in the context of single-party and military dictatorships, struggles for democracy, civil wars, and in the extreme case of Somalia, the collapse of the state.
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