Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents
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
