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This database monitors, compiles and categorises information related to the protection of human rights defenders, with a particular focus on national policy developments.
Protection International
2023
The defence of human rights in Guatemala is currently going through one of its worst crises since the processes of...
Protection International
2023
On the 12th of December 2022, the Congolese National Assembly approved a draft national law on human rights defenders. This...
Protection International
2023
On the 4th of March 2018, governments, NGOs, academia and other stakeholders from the Latin American and Caribbean region signed...
African Defenders
2023
On the 21st of February 2023 the 36th Ordinary session of the African Union took place in Bishoftu, Ethiopia. During...
CNN
2023
CNN – Georgia’s parliament on Friday formally repealed a controversial “foreign influence” bill that sparked large protests amid concerns that...
Philstar
2023
For the third time in nearly two decades, a bill seeking to protect human rights defenders and punish acts of...
Protection International
2023
It has been 25 years since the first protection mechanism for people at risk due to armed conflict (December 1997)...
Nkafu Policy Institute
2023
This publication was published by the Nkafu Policy Institute in January 2023. It includes an analysis of legal protection measures...
Defensoría del Pueblo Perú
2022
In an effort to place the need for more efficient protection measures for environmental defenders on the national public agenda,...
Hellenic Republic. National Comission for Human Rights
2022
Following the call for inputs by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders in Greece in...
Fortune TV Liberia
2022
In February 2022, human rights defenders came together to discuss the development of a draft law for the protection of...
Corte Constitucional. República de Colombia
2022
Boletín No 39 – Bogotá, April 18, 2022. The Constitutional Court is considering nine tutela actions1 filed by 18 citizens...
CODIGO DH
2022
The Office of the Ombudsman for Human Rights of Oaxaca participates in updating the Agreement on the Recognition and Protection...
Bir Kirpish
2022
In Kazakhstan, a draft law for a national protection mechanism for human rights defenders was developed by civil society actors....
Secretaría de gobernación. Gobierno de Mexico
2022
In January 2022, discussions on a general law for the protection of human rights defenders in Mexico were renewed. Discussions...