Europe & Eurasia

May 2024 For the fifth subsequent year, National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in the European Union (EU) provide their insights...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted resolution 2554 during its summer session of 2024. Following Austrian...

Civil Society Europe and the European Civic Forum, leading an informal coalition of civil society organisations1 which includes Protection International, present...

Türkiye’s Member of Parliament, Ceylan Akça Cupolo, introduced a proposal for a law on the recognition and protection of Human...

This toolkit seeks to support affected Human Rights Defenders by showing them mechanisms and avenues for help and self-defence in...

CNN – Georgia’s parliament on Friday formally repealed a controversial “foreign influence” bill that sparked large protests amid concerns that...

ENNHRI has developed a compilation of European NHRIs tools, actions and mechanisms related to the protection of Human Rights Defenders....

Following the call for inputs by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders in Greece in...

On 27 April 2022, the European Commission put forward a proposal for a directive aimed at protecting persons who engage...

In 2021, the Human Rights House Foundation published a report entitled: “Protecting Defenders in 2021: How to Improve Infrastructure to...

In 2019, the British Department of Foreign Affairs developed a report on UK support for human rights defenders. The document...

In 2019, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs developed Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders. The document contains “specific courses...

Over the last two decades, Albania has made significant progress in promoting and enforcing human rights and fundamental freedoms. Human...

In a statement to the Moldovan government in 2018, the UN Special Rapporteur called for a stronger protection of human...

UNPD The assessment of Georgia’s progress on human rights in 2014-2019 is prepared by the independent human rights expert Maggie...

“TIRANA – On 3rd March 2019 the Parliament of Albania passed a resolution in support of the Activity of Human Rights...

On 13th April, at the initiative of the former Ombudsperson Iglit Totozani, the Albanian Parliament, in cooperation with the Council...

In 2018, Human Rights House Foundation published a booklet entitled: “Rights of Defenders: Principles and Standards Protecting and Empowering Human...

In 2018, Human Rights House Foundation developed 16 standards related to the rights of human rights defenders, together with the...

In 2010, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland developed public guidelines on the implementation of the EU Guidelines on...