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Who are human rights defenders

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Friday 2 February 2007 by Special Rep on Situation of HRD

Who are human rights defenders - OHCHR

“Human rights defender” is a term used to describe people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect human rights. Human rights defenders are identified above all by what they do and it is through a description of their actions and of some of the contexts in which they work that the term can best be explained.

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