DefendingWomen-DefendingRights.org
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Welcome to Defending Women Defending Rights website
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- In her 2002 report before the UN Commission on Human Rights, Ms. Hina Jilani, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Human Rights Defenders (UN SRSG HRD) addressed the critical situation of women human rights defenders (WHRDs). The UN SRSG HRD indicated that out of the 161 urgent appeals she had sent to Governments during that year, 70 concerned women defenders or women’s organizations.
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