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<div class="_rp_k4" id="Item.MessagePartBody" style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders – Website:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; background:yellow">WORLD REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS – SHRINKING SPACE & INCREASED RISKS</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.forum-asia.org/?p=27902" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:blue">https://www.forum-asia.org/?p=27902</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222; background:white">On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, </span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/srhrdefenders/pages/srhrdefendersindex.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#519548; background:white">UN
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222; background:white"> Michel Forst published a world report presenting the recent developments in 140 countries. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222; background:white">The World Report documents the much discussed closing of civic space and suggests that it has become, in too many locations, a war on human rights defenders.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">In relation to current widespread challenges, the World Report reveals the following three key issues facing human rights defenders globally:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">1. The evolution of the use of the term “human rights defenders”;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">2. The development of mechanisms and practices to support human rights defenders;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">3. The use of legal and administrative frameworks to both protect and persecute defenders</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#C00000">Direct Link to the full 494-Page December 2018 Publication of the World Report on Human Rights Defenders:
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