Annual Report on Human Rights Defenders at Risk in 2017

In a highly contested global context in which the advance of human rights has increasingly challenged dictators, religious conservatives and vulture capitalists, there has been a well-resourced and coordinated strategy of defamation, criminalisation and violence deployed to intimidate, marginalise and silence human rights defenders (HRDs). The human cost has been high, but in spite of all these efforts, there are more HRDs, working on more issues, in more countries, than ever before.

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Categories: Human Rights Defenders
Author: Frontline Defenders