EVENT | Launch of the Declaration +25

16 June 2024

The image shows the flyer of the "Declaration + 25 launch" side event at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council

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Join us on 19 June 2024 as we launch the Declaration +25, a supplement to the UN Declaration on human rights defenders, in a side event during the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council …Read more Read less

Date: 19 June 2024
Time: 1:00PM – 2:00PM Central European Summer Time (CEST, GMT+2)
Location: Room XXV, Palais des Nations, Geneva (Switzerland)
Event language: English

Following a year-long period of consultations with defenders, legal analysis and a meeting of experts, we are thrilled to launch the Declaration +25, a civil society-led authoritative document endorsed by experts.

The Declaration +25 is a call to action for the protection and promotion of human rights defenders. Together with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, it forms a comprehensive set of standards and principles on defender protection grounded in international law.

This in-person event will be moderated by Tess McEvoy from the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) on behalf of a Secretariat of 18 organisations, and will include a panel of exceptional human rights defenders:

 

  • Ana Victoria Barrientos Rodriguez, programme officer, Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), El Salvador
  • Zulu Anyaogu, programme associate , Partnership for Justice, Nigeria
  • Fatma Aziza El Mokhtar, international coordinator, UJSARIO (the Sahrawi Youth Union), Western Sahara
  • Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights
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