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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">COLLECTIVE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS - GENDER</span></b></p>
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<b>Direct Link to Full 13-Page 2018 Publication – English. See below for links to additional translations.</b></p>
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<a href="https://www.protectioninternational.org/sites/default/files/downloads-files/collective-protection-en-web-spreads.pdf" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://www.protectioninternational.org/sites/default/files/downloads-files/collective-protection-en-web-spreads.pdf</a></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">With the recent 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the
</span></b><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/srhrdefenders/pages/declaration.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular; color:#F8971D; text-decoration:none">UN
declaration on Human Rights Defenders, </span></b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">much attention is currently focused on the indispensable work carried out by communities of human rights defenders across
the globe. In this context, it is important to consider that <b>human rights defenders do not usually work alone</b>, but in groups, in association with others, in social movements, building collective networks and supporting each other. Nevertheless, the
<b>tendency of protection mechanisms is to choose an individual HRD</b>, a practice which can limit the impact of measures to a very narrow number of defenders and also undermine the collective dimension of human rights defence work.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">This publication aims to contribute to a shift in current prevailing narratives on the protection of human rights defenders. For protection to be effective, sustainable and reach
a greater number of human rights defenders, we shift towards a more <b>collective mindset</b>.</span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">“Protection approaches should not just aim to provide security for individual defenders. We must further pursue structural changes leading to policies that guarantee a safe and
conducive environment for all those who, individually or collectively, defend human rights.”</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">The publication identifies a number of problems which stem from the prevailing individualisation of HRDs, highlighting that most protection programmes, both at international and
national level, are based on sets of measures intended to provide security to a given individual, but fail to provide structural policy changes that are indispensable for the effective protection of all those defending rights.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">The publication also provides ideas of key measures and actions that should be taken into account when developing
<b>collective protection strategies</b> with communities or groups of HRDs.</span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">“We need to rethink and expand current HRDs protection mechanisms so that the protection of HRDs is provided both individually and collectively.”</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">Read the publication in
</span><a href="https://www.protectioninternational.org/sites/default/files/downloads-files/collective-protection-en-web-spreads.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular; color:#F8971D; text-decoration:none">English</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">,
</span><a href="https://www.protectioninternational.org/sites/default/files/downloads-files/collective-protection_es-web-spreads.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular; color:#F8971D; text-decoration:none">Spanish</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">
and </span><a href="https://www.protectioninternational.org/sites/default/files/downloads-files/collective-protection_fr-web-spreads.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular; color:#F8971D; text-decoration:none">French</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">.</span></p>
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