Authorship: Civil Society & Academia

Pretoria University Law Press
Africa
Paper or Analysis
2018

Africa: Compendium on the Legal Protection of Human Rights Defenders

This compilation of documents has been prepared by the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders and Focal Point on Reprisals...
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Ulisses Terto Neto
Americas | Brazil | Brazil
Paper or Analysis | Paper or Analysis
2020

Brazil: Study on the Public Policy for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders by Ulisses Neto

Ulisses Terto Neto, a Brazilian human rights lawyer and researcher and law professor at the State University of Goiás (UEG),...
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International Service for Human Rights - ISHR
Asia
Paper or Analysis
2019

Asia: Fighting to Exist – Legislative Protection for Human Rights Defenders in Asia by ISHR

ISHR‘s report entitled Fighting to Exist: Legislative Protection for Human Rights Defenders in Asia summarises the risks and challenges defenders face and...
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International Service for Human Rights
Senegal | Africa
News
2021

Senegal: Developing Draft Law for Human Rights Defenders

Translation by Protection International of the original article by ISHR. On 8 and 9 April 2021, Senegalese civil society met...
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International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
Africa
Paper or Analysis
2021

Africa: The Potential of National Human Rights Institutions to Serve as Protection Mechanisms for Human Rights Defenders

The study on the potential of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) to serve as protection mechanisms for human rights defenders...
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International Service for Human Rights
Madagascar | Africa
News
2021

Madagascar: ISHR Workshop on Draft Law for Human Rights Defenders

Translation by Protection International of the original publication by ISHR. In Madagascar, the number of attacks on human rights defenders...
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South African Human Rights Commission
South Africa | Africa
Paper or Analysis
2018

South Africa: The Status of Human Rights Defenders

In April 2018, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) published The Status of Human Rights Defenders in South Africa,...
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International Service for Human Rights
Mali | Africa
News
2020

Mali: UN Calls on Mali To Establish the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders

“The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights urged Mali to adopt the implementation decree on the law for the protection...
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International Service of Human Rights (ISHR)
Africa
News
2019

Africa: Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Organises Panel on Protection Laws

Since 2014, there has been an increasing number of African countries adopting or considering to adopt national legislation aimed specifically...
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ISHR
Côte d'Ivoire | Africa
Paper or Analysis
2019

Côte d’Ivoire: Call to Adopt an Inter-Ministerial Decree Establishing the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders

Following the adoption of the law in 2014 and its implementing decree in 2017, the Ivorian civil society, in collaboration...
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