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Good practice on how defenders and activists engage with the human rights systems

Stories of Good Practice

Learn how human rights organisations, defenders and activists have engaged with international and regional human rights systems

Case Studies

Putting LGBT Issues on the UN Agenda

Human rights defenders push for UN mechanisms to recognize and address human rights violations faced by LGBT persons

Venezuela - Creation of an Independent UN Fact-Finding Mission

Defenders engage the UN to push for the creation of a Fact-Finding Mission, which finds evidence of crimes against humanity

Saudi Arabia – Protecting Women Human Rights Defenders

Human rights defenders use the UN Human Rights mechanisms to seek the release of women human rights defenders and demand accountability for their torture.

Philippines - Protecting indigenous people’s rights from extractive industries

Human rights defenders push for UN Special Procedures to recognize and address human and land rights violations faced by indigenous Tuwali communities in the Philippines

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