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Un Declaration On Human Rights Defenders Pdf Download

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The work of human rights defenders is essential for the advancement of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Human rights defenders play a central role in making state policies human rights compliant and authorities accountable. Human rights defenders are also instrumental in defending victims of human rights violations and ensuring their access to redress and remedy. Human rights defenders are key partners of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights.



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Civil society human rights activists face numerous obstacles in their work, including: legal and administrative restrictions impeding the registration of NGOs and their access to funding; excessive financial and reporting requirements; judicial harassment; smear campaigns; threats and intimidation; abusive control and surveillance; confiscation and destruction of working materials; unlawful arrest or detention and ill-treatment. In some cases, human rights defenders are kidnapped or even killed. The absence of effective investigations into violations committed by state and non-state actors against human rights defenders targeted because of their human rights work remains a major problem. This results in the impunity of perpetrators and the recurrence of violations, which also facilitate reprisals.


A. whereas the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders defines human rights defenders (HRDs) as individuals or groups who act to promote, protect or strive for the protection and realisation of human rights and fundamental freedoms through peaceful means;


L. whereas the consistent, effective and efficient implementation of the Guidelines is even more important in the current global context of declining democracy, the deterioration of human rights, shrinking civil society space, climate collapse and heightened risks for HRDs posed by factors such as digital surveillance and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic;


1. Praises and thanks all human rights defenders for their courageous and crucial work in defence of human rights and the planet; acknowledges that they have to do their work under increasingly challenging and evolving circumstances and often at a heavy personal cost for them, their families and their communities;






6. Calls for the Guidelines to refer to the EU global human rights sanctions regime and for systematic attacks on HRDs to lead to the listing of individuals and entities under this regime; reiterates its request to amend the current EU global human rights sanction regime by expanding its scope to include acts of corruption or alternatively for a legislative proposal to be put forward to adopt a new thematic regime against serious acts of corruption;


8. Believes that such an approach, through which all EU institutions and actors, including the EU Special Representative on Human Rights, as well as the Member States, would work together on implementing the Guidelines, would prove effective in helping to counter the global backsliding of human rights and democracy;


13. Welcomes the regular training on human rights, including on HRD policy, for staff members working as focal points in both the political and cooperation sections of EU delegations; is, however, concerned by reports that awareness and knowledge of the Guidelines remain inadequate; calls for this training to be made mandatory and expanded; suggests thinking about incorporating EU and Member State commitments on HRDs into the job profiles of relevant staff members of the EEAS, EU delegations and Member State missions, with a view to ensuring a systematic approach on HRDs, so that knowledge on and practices for HRD protection are institutionalised, which thus avoids a person-dependent approach and minimises the effects of staff rotation;


15. Highlights the importance of continuing to break down silos in EU external relations; welcomes the increased coordination between EU delegations, the EEAS headquarters and the Directorate-General for International Partnerships in relation to urgent HRD cases and crisis situations that significantly affect HRDs; calls for improved coordination on human rights matters with the Directorates-General of the Commission, as well as with relevant EU agencies;


21. Reiterates its call on the Commission to refrain strictly from providing budget support to third-country governments responsible for widespread violations of human rights and the repression of HRDs; calls on the Commission, conversely, to step up its assistance to authorities genuinely committed to establishing an enabling environment for HRDs; recalls its demand for greater transparency regarding human rights provisions in financing agreements under the NDICI;


22. Calls for the Commission and the other EU institutions, including the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as well as for other development and investment banks and vehicles, to develop an approach in which funding is only given to entities that implement a sound and strictly monitored human rights policy and that take a zero-tolerance stance on threats or violence against HRDs, including identifying and assessing adverse impacts in operations, value chains and business relationships, preventing, mitigating or ceasing adverse impacts and providing remediation;


34. Underlines the role of domestic advisory groups (DAGs) in the monitoring of TSD commitments in trade agreements; is concerned about reports that HRDs and environmental rights defenders have been barred from joining DAGs by governments of preferential trade partners; calls for sufficient financial resources and technical assistance to be allocated to DAGs to enable them to properly carry out their tasks;


39. Highlights the increasing phenomenon of transnational threats against HRDs by their national authorities or proxies, including in Member States; calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify and tackle these threats within the EU as a priority and as an integral aspect of the Guidelines; encourages the Commission and the Member States to provide foreign HRDs residing in the EU with appropriate financial and other means, including dedicated protection mechanisms, trainings and programmes on cybersecurity and cyber-harassment, in order to enable them to continue their human rights work remotely and without fear of retaliation; calls for increased training and resources to be provided to law enforcement authorities in the EU Member States to facilitate reporting, investigations and attribution of these transnational attacks, and calls for those responsible to be sanctioned; underlines that officials and agents of third countries harassing HRDs in the EU, as well as local enablers, either individuals or entities, should be summoned, exposed and sanctioned;


52. Resolves to ensure that its key resolutions on human rights, in particular urgency resolutions, are translated into the local languages of the countries concerned and published and distributed accordingly; expects EU delegations in the countries concerned to make such resolutions available on their websites and to follow up systematically with the national authorities and report back to Parliament; calls for a revision of the 2011 Guidelines for European Parliament interparliamentary delegations on promoting human rights and democracy in their visits to non-EU countries;


56. Regrets the lack of an in-depth, specific analysis by the EEAS and the Commission of the implementation of the Guidelines since 2008; calls for a comprehensive assessment of EU action on HRDs in the framework of the mid-term review of the implementation of the 2020-2024 action plan on human rights and democracy, scheduled for June 2023; calls for this review to include the identification and dissemination of best practices by EU delegations and Member State missions, and for continuous monitoring of the implementation of the Guidelines, in consultation with civil society;


57. Underlines the need for the Guidelines to be updated in view of the evolving challenges and risks faced by HRDs, particularly digital transformation and threats, as well as to better reflect the groups of HRDs in the current global environment, especially those working on the rights of women and the LGBTQI+ community, as well as land, environmental and indigenous rights defenders, and the specific risks that these groups face;


59. Calls for guidance on devising action in the most hostile environments for HRDs and on the means to address structural or systemic human rights issues to be incorporated into the revised Guidelines;


64. Calls for the human rights and HRD focal points in EU delegations to be merged and for access to these interlocutors to be facilitated for HRDs and other civil society actors; insists that their tasks be clarified and dedicated exclusively to their duties as human rights focal points;


68. Calls on the EEAS and the Commission to systematically consult civil society representatives and HRDs prior to any human rights dialogue, for the consultation to be genuine, accessible and inclusive and for these interlocutors to be debriefed thereafter; calls on the EEAS and Commission furthermore to engage in a more results-oriented approach in relation to individual cases and to effectively follow up in between sessions of human rights dialogues; calls for the systematic inclusion of a civil society segment in any bilateral or regional human rights dialogue; reiterates the need for a systematic and firm EU response to any act of reprisal against HRDs that occurs after they have attended EU events or that is connected to contact with EU interlocutors;


70. Encourages the VP/HR, in cooperation with the Member States and Parliament, to adopt an annual list of focus countries of serious concern in relation to the plight of HRDs, to be modified according to developments on the ground, which would, inter alia, allow for: 1) a fully coordinated Team Europe practical response on the ground; 2) greater access to resources, particularly under a Team Europe funding facility, for emergency protection and longer-term funding to address the broader institutional and structural human rights context; 3) enhanced local human rights monitoring; 4) dedicated national implementation strategies; and 5) additional resources at headquarters and delegation levels;

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