The Observatory on Public Policies for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

The FOCUS Observatory on Public Policies for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders is an online platform aimed at monitoring, analysing and promoting good practice in policy developments that governments and other state authorities adopt for protecting human rights defenders and their right to defend human rights on a global level.

Map of public policies

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Key Elements

Who are human rights defenders? Why is it important to protect them? What is the role of the states in protecting them? In this section, we review all key elements linked to protection policies for human rights defenders.

PI publications

Protection International has been working on public policies since 2007. Over the years, we have gathered our expertise and good practices in research publications, practical tools and reports.

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Browse through the database of document by region, or refine your search by country, type of document and author in the database section.

Latest additions

US Foreign Relations Committee
2024
January 31, 2024 WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and author of...
Colectivo de abogados José Alvear Restrepo (Cajar)
2024
Bogotá-Washington DC., March 18, 2024. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued a historic ruling in which it recognizes...
Protection International
2023
Protection International Statement In Africa and worldwide, an increasing number of countries are developing laws for the protection of human...
Protection International
2023
Megan Thomas In the regions of North and South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the protection...
CNN
2023
CNN – Georgia’s parliament on Friday formally repealed a controversial “foreign influence” bill that sparked large protests amid concerns that...
Oficina en México del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos
2023
The existence of the Mechanism reaffirms the valuable role played by human rights defenders and journalists in society and the...
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung_Thessaloniki
2023
This toolkit seeks to support affected Human Rights Defenders by showing them mechanisms and avenues for help and self-defence in...
2023
Just a couple of days ago, Protection International received a copy of Law 23/027 on the protection and responsibility of...