Statement calling for the renewal of the Special Rapporteur’s Mandate on Burundi

To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland) 18 August 2022 Burundi: Extend the Special Rapporteur’s mandate Excellencies, At the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council, in October 2021, the Council established a special procedure on Burundi. The new Special Rapporteur mandate includes […]

¡Es Tiempo YA! – Effective public policies for the right to defend human rights

Protection International and the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) present their new publication: Es Tiempo Ya, políticas publicas eficaces para el derecho a defender los derechos humanos. In view of the high number of attacks against human rights defenders in the Americas (and the rest of the world), ES TIEMPO YA tries to […]

New release: 2017 FOCUS REPORT | Public policies for the protection of Human rights defenders

Protection International (PI) is glad to present its 2017 edition of its Focus Report, monitoring worldwide developments in the field of national protection mechanisms and public policies for the protection of human rights defenders (HRDs). Since the publication of our seminal handbook Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Best Practices and Lessons Learned (2011), the public debate regarding […]

High-level meetings in Brussels and The Hague with PI liaison officer from DR Congo

25th August, 2014. Brussels, Belgium – Last week Protection International had the pleasure of welcoming Roger Muchuba from its new liaison office in Kinshasa of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Since May 2014, Roger has been researching primary factors influencing the protection of human rights defenders as well as a related law initiative in the DRC, and […]