Human Rights Defenders Under Siege

Name: Human Rights Defenders Under Siege
Author: Felipe Gomez Isa

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Gebonden, 304 blz. | Engels

Edward Elgar Publishing | 1e druk, 2025

ISBN13: 9781035355914

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Hoofdrubriek : Juridisch

Juridisch : Europees-internationaal recht

Jongbloed : Mensenrechten - internationaal

Edward Elgar Publishing 1e druk, 2025 9781035355914

Onderdeel van serie The Association of Human Rights Institutes series

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In this timely book, human rights academics, activists and officials in the field discuss the achievements and challenges since the 1998 adoption of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (HRDs). The book includes a balanced combination of theoretical approaches and case studies with a global reach, developed under the institutional umbrella of the Association of Human Rights Institutes.

Chapters provide an overview of HRDs, moving from an introduction to conceptual issues, to considering the shrinking space for civil society and the increasing obstacles to HRDs working to protect the rights of migrants in Europe. They also explore the unprecedented restrictions and attacks faced by HRDs implemented by State authorities and non-State actors, encompassing intimidation, arbitrary detention and criminalization.

Human Rights Defenders Under Siege is a crucial resource for scholars and students in human rights law, public international law, and politics and public policy. Policymakers and practitioners will also benefit from its valuable insights, due to the increase in programs and funding schemes for the protection of HRDs.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781035355914

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:gebonden

Aantal pagina's:304

Uitgever:Edward Elgar Publishing

Druk:1

Verschijningsdatum:1-12-2025

Hoofdrubriek:Europees-internationaal recht

Jongbloed:Mensenrechten - internationaal

Serie:The Association of Human Rights Institutes series

Inhoudsopgave

Foreword xiv
Preface xv

PART I INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
1 The UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders: From Momentum to Contestation 2
Felipe Gómez Isa
2 What’s in a Name? The Debate on Human Rights Defenders in the European Union 23
Dolores Morondo Taramundi

PART II SHRINKING SPACE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY
3 Shrinking Space for Civil Society: Paradoxes and Responses in the Defence of Human Rights 43
Antoine Buyse
4 Exploring Strategies to Counter the Shrinking Civic Spaces Trend. Lessons learned from civil society initiatives in Kosovo and the Philippines 52
Lena Muhs
5 Reducing Human Rights Defenders to Silence in Turkey 72
Zelal Pelin Doğan
6 Time to Take Action against SLAPPs: Defending Human Rights Defenders. Experiences from the PATFox Project 94
Alessia Schiavon
7 Lawfare against human rights defenders: Zimbabwe’s Private Voluntary Organizations Amendment Bill and the Patriot Bill 112
Kevin Toro Sánchez
8 Surveillance, Suppression, and Solidarity: Unveiling Law Enforcement Tactics Against the Anti-Law Enforcement Violence Movement in Minnesota 127
Amelia Shindelar
9 Stigmatizing Indigenous Human Rights Defenders as Terrorists: A Case Study of Social Protest and Peruvian State Repression to Secure Extractivism 142
Sarah Kerremans

PART III INCREASING OBSTACLES TO MIGRANTS’ RIGHTS DEFENDERS
10 Saving Lives is not a Crime! Legal Persecution of Migrants’ Rights Defenders at Greek and Spanish Borders 164
Araitz Peña Mallona
11 Beside Criminalization of Solidarity: The Legal Exclusion of Human Rights Defenders from Refugee Camps in Europe 180
Isabella Leroy
12 No Aid Without Surveillance: The Facilitators Package and the Expansion of Crimmigration Towards Civil Society 198
Gustavo de la Orden Bosch

PART IV ACADEMIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS
13 Collaboration between Academia and Human Rights Defenders for Refugee and Migrant Children: Lessons Learned in the Balkans 215
Bogdan Krasiğ and Nikolina Miliğ
14 Bridging Academia and Human Rights Defenders: The Student Pro Bono Legal Work Connection 240
Aikaterini Koula
15 History of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) 260
Manfred Nowak and Imke Steimann

BILBAO DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS 293