The Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD IC) is a resource and advocacy network for the protection and support of women human rights defenders.
The Global Report gives a contextual analysis of the environment in which WHRDs work and the violations they face because of their gender. The Global Report wants to rectify the neglect of gender-specific documentation by drawing on individual and collective analysis of WHRD IC members during the life of the Coalition, which began in 2005. The analysis is informed by five key phenomena – fundamentalisms; militarization and situations of conflict; globalization; crises of democracy or governance; and heteronormativity. The Global Report uses 43 cases studies that illuminate specific trends and experiences of WHRDs. The case studies also surface connections between context, identities of WHRDs and violations experienced. The use of the cases examples provide a vivid glimpse of the landscape in which WHRDs live and work.
The Global Report is primarily an advocacy and capacity building tool, both important measures for WHRDs’ protection and the prevention of further abuses. The Global Report is a contribution to the ongoing documentation of the situation of WHRDs that will enable informed advocacy from the local to regional and international level.
The report – and a short abstract of the report in English, French and Spanish – will soon be available to download from the website: http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org/, hard copies are available by email request to whrd@apwld.org.
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