A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists...
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the Human Rights Defender of Armenia are located in Yerevan. Since 24 January 2022, Kristinne Grigoryan was elected as the Human Rights Defender of Armenia...
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The Defenders of Human Rights Center (Persian: کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر) is an Iranian human rights organization. Based in Tehran, the organization was...
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Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) are women who defend human rights, and defenders of all genders who defend the rights of women and rights related...
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China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) is a non-government organization of domestic and overseas Chinese human rights activists and groups. The organization...
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National Human Rights Commission of India (abbreviated as NHRC) is a statutory body constituted on 12 October 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Ordinance...
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Human rights in the Philippines are protected by the Constitution of the Philippines, to make sure that people in the Philippines are able to live peacefully...
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Human Rights Day (HRD) is celebrated annually around the world on 10 December every year. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's...
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related to this article: Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the...
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Sweden, that does human rights work with a focus on civil and political rights. They primarily work to support local human rights defenders by providing them...
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Human rights in China are periodically reviewed by international bodies, such as human rights treaty bodies and the United Nations Human Rights Council's...
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Front Line Defenders, or The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, is an Irish-based human rights organisation founded...
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Sudan's human rights record has been widely condemned. Some human rights organizations have documented a variety of abuses and atrocities carried out by...
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Bahrain's record on human rights has been described by Human Rights Watch as "dismal", and having "deteriorated sharply in the latter half of 2010". Their...
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Mohamed Lotfy, a human rights defender, is the co-founder and executive director of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), an organisation...
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A human rights group, or human rights organization, is a non-governmental organization which advocates for human rights through identification of their...
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and human rights defenders, remain imprisoned on abusive 'terrorism' charges, many in lengthy pretrial detention." International human rights organizations...
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Human rights in Turkey are protected by a variety of international law treaties, which take precedence over domestic legislation, according to Article...
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2019, the UN Human Rights Council unanimously recognised their importance to environmental protection. The term environmental defender is broadly applied...
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Economic and Social Rights Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) Civil Rights Defenders Coalition for the...
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International human rights organizations, along with the United Nations, and the United States Department of State, have reported human rights violations...
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"All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action." — Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General...
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Public Defender (Defensoría del Pueblo de la Nación Argentina) (Ombudsman) Armenia Human Rights Defender of Armenia Australia Australian Human Rights Commission...
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Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, sometimes called "the Nobel Prize for human rights", is an annual prize for human rights defenders. It was created...
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on human rights. The group pressures governments, policymakers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights...
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR or, in the three other official languages – Spanish, French, and Portuguese – CIDH, Comisión Interamericana...
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Human rights in Vietnam (Vietnamese: Nhân quyền tại Việt Nam) are among the poorest in the world, as considered by various domestic and international academics...
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EU Human Rights Defender of the year. He was awarded by the National Coalition of Human rights Defenders Uganda in 2020 as the Central Uganda Human Rights...
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Human rights in Indonesia are defined by the 1945 Constitution (UUD 1945) and the laws under it; several rights are guaranteed especially as a result...
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international organizations and independent domestic media outlets for human rights violations. Some of the most commonly cited violations include deaths...
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