See Executive Summary :
http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/rapexang.pdf
This report addresses the cases of 1,154 defenders and over 200 organisations committed to the defence of human rights (NGOs, trade unions, etc.) targeted by acts of repression in about 90 countries.
Although the report does not pretend to be fully exhaustive, these figures are revealing of the deteriorating situation of human rights defenders around the world, at a time when human rights are instrumentalised or sacrificed to Realpolitik.
On the occasion of the publication of its annual report, the Observatory organises the following press conferences :
– 14 April 2005 : Geneva, Dakar, London, Khartoum and Tunis.
– 18 April 2005 : Bogotá
Other conferences will be organised at the local level by partner organisations of the Observatory.
Foreword by Lida Yusupova, Martin Ennals Award
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