Webinar on Protection Mechanisms for Human Rights Defenders

Human rights defenders, especially women’s rights defenders, face various threats such as physical and verbal attacks, defamation, arbitrary arrests and political or economic pressure. These dangers aim to discourage them in their fight for gender equality, sexual and reproductive rights and against sexual and gender-based violences among other things.

In this context, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (an FIDH-OMCT partnership) will be organising an online workshop to present the support available to human rights defenders, with focus on women’s and LGBTQ+ rights defenders through the Observatory and other existing mechanisms.

We invite you to a one-hour online workshop to discuss the support available to women’s and LGBTQ+ rights defenders through the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (an FIDH-OMCT partnership) and other existing mechanisms.

AGENDA

• Introduction
• Presentation of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and the Observatory’s actions.
• Presentation of the types of funds available through the Observatory.
• Discussion on eligibility criteria for human rights defenders to participate in the Observatory’s actions.
• Presentation of other protection mechanisms for defenders (with an intersectional approach).
• Q&A
• Conclusion

There will be interpretation in Amharic, Sinhala, Tamil, Bangla.

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