Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards

A special issue on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has appeared in the Journal of Human Rights Practice. This special issue contains insightful articles from human rights defenders, scholars and organizations across the globe focused on promoting and protecting human rights defenders. The Oxford Journal wants to bridge the gap between human rights practitioners and academicians. Exceptionally, this entire special issue of the Journal of Human Rights Practice is available free of charge for the next 3 months at http://jhrp.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/3.toc. You find there also the full text of my Review Essay on awards. Table of content:JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE  VOLUME 5  NUMBER 3  NOVEMBER 2013

ARTICLE

Alice M. Nah, Karen Bennett, Danna Ingleton, and James Savage     A Research Agenda for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders 401

POLICY AND PRACTICE NOTES

Raghad Jaraisy and Tamar Feldman    Protesting for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Assessing the Challenges and Revisiting the Human Rights Defender Framework 421

Gwen Burnyeat     On a Peak in Darien: Community Peace Initiatives in Uraba ́, Colombia 435

IM–Defensoras     A Feminist Alternative for the Protection, Self-Care, and Safety of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mesoamerica 446

Masa Osama Amir    A Study of the Experience of Women Human Rights Defenders in Eleven Egyptian Governorates 460

Tony Tate    A Commitment to End Corruption or Criminalize Anti-Corruption Activists? A Case Study from Burundi 478

Daniel Joloy   Mexico’s National Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders: Challenges and Good Practices 489

Vanessa Kogan   Protecting Human Rights Defenders in the North Caucasus: Reflections on Developments from 2009 to the Present 500

Jamie Hitchen and Jacqueline Kasoma     Making the Transition: Engaging Communities in Uganda with the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders 512

East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project Networks for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders:   Notes from the Field 522

Stephanie Hankey and Daniel O ́ Clunaigh     Rethinking Risk and Security of Human Rights Defenders in the Digital Age 535

REVIEW ESSAY

Johannes Thoolen Human Rights    Awards for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders 548

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