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Women Human Rights Defenders
Resources
- 2007 CWGL Women Human Rights Defenders Day Statement (English, Español)
- Proceedings of the International Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders, full report of the International Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders held on 29 November - 2 December 2005 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This report documents the discussions and analyses of violations and abuses committed against women human rights defenders through a framework of four key sources of violations: state actors, non-state actors, family and community, sex and sexuality-based attacks. It also contains strategies and recommendations made by the participants to better protect women human rights defenders. http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org/pdf/WHRD-Proceedings.pdf
- CWGL co-sponsored the following joint statement in support of the annual report and mandate of the Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders at the Human Rights Council on March 29, 2007 in Geneva. The oral intervention welcomes the focus in the report on "defenders at particular risk," and highlights women human rights defenders, as well as LGBT and HIV/AIDS activists. In addition to CWGL, the statement was endorsed by Development Alternatives With Women for a New Era, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development: Statement in Related Debate: Human Rights Defenders
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