Defending Human Rights defenders

    Every day around the world Human Rights Defenders are exposed to political violence. They protect others despite their own security.

    We are Human Rights Defenders working with Human Rights Defenders.

    We work through Protection International whose founders have over 25 year experience both in Human Rights and in field protection of Human Rights Defenders.

    Protection International aims at the due legitimate and legal protection of Human Rights Defenders.

Protection International AISBL

We are a network of Human Rights Defenders. We have over 25 years experience in the fields of human rights, humanitarian law and protection of Human Rights Defenders and vulnerable groups. We have been providing security trainings to Human Rights Defenders in 20 countries, among others DR Congo, Uganda, Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil, Peru.

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Activities

Regional Consultations: The Recommendations‐Implementation Strategy Phase One

4 May
NEPAL - 2009 Background: Protection International and Protection Desk Nepal successfully concluded a series of regional consultations with a national meeting in Kathmandu at 8th March 2009. The final report of the regional consultations contains a series of recommendations made by over 500 (...)

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Protect the human rights defenders, journalists and other actors of civil society

19 March
The brutal murders in Bukavu of Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi on 31 July 2005, and of Serge Maheshe on 13 June 2007, have shaken the Congolese and international community. These are the few examples that have become famous amongst the many human rights activists and journalists throughout the (...)

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Documents

PI Press Conference, Kinshasha, 22nd May 2009 – Maheshe Case

12 June
DC CONGO Serge Maheshe, a journalist for Radio Okapi, was assassinated in Bukavu (South-Kivu) in June 2007. The trial which took place before the military jurisdictions of Bukavu in the first instance and at appeal has neither respected the norms of a fair trial nor succeeded in manifesting (...)

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Sudan, report by the Special Rapporteur on HR situation: panel event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, on the 9th of June

9 June
SUDAN The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights. Studies (CIHRS) hope to set the scene ahead of next week's release of the latest report by the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in (...)

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