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Policy brief 24 Jan 2018

Chasing Shadows: UN Communications on Human Rights Defenders

By Janika Spannagel

Each year, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders receives a large number of submissions regarding individual cases of concern. Only a fraction of these cases are addressed by the rapporteur’s communications procedure. Nobody can determine with certainty how many cases…