April 2013

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December 2011

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Conference report October 2011

When subsistence farming and indigenous communities around the world find their human rights threatened by the interests of large-scale extractive, agribusiness and infrastructure projects, it is often human rights defenders (HRDs) who work to ensure their communities’ rights are protected. They often pay a high price for taking such a stand, falling victim to repressive tactics by state and non-state actors designed to silence dissent and advance business ventures.

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Submission on the situation of human rights lawyers and other human rights defenders in the countries where PBI works.

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This report sets out the findings and recommendations of this groundbreaking conference, organised in 2009 by PBI with the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute (HRSJ) of the London Metropolitan University and the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group, with funding from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) like their male counterparts work to protect a wide range of rights: civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights, as well as to defend and promote women’s rights. WHRDs often experience threats because of their gender and are targeted because of who they are not just because of what they do.

Download PBI's submission on the situation of WHRDS to the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission (pdf 320kb)