ISHR works to support human rights defenders to strengthen their national legal recognition and protection, providing legal and technical guidance to Civil Society Organisations and States developing and implementing laws, policies and mechanisms that protect human rights defenders. Find further analysis from ISHR on legislative protection.

Showing developments in national legal instruments for human rights defenders; it intends to complement existing resources on human rights defender protection, and provide a short summarised comparison of each instrument to the Model Law for the recognition and protection of human rights defenders.