Dear friends,
Please find attached two reports recently issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders.
Annual report on individual communications :
http://www2. ohchr.org/ english/bodies/ hrcouncil/ docs/13session/ A-HRC-13- 22-Add1_EFS. pdf
This report compiles all the communications sent throughout the year 2009 by the UN Special Rapporteur, on cases of violations of the rights of human rights defenders. In many instances, the replies brought by the national authorities to the concerns raised by the Rapporteur are included.
The report probably contains cases which concern you, on which you are working, or which you are aware of and following. Therefore, please do not hesitate to provide us with any follow-up information, in reaction – notably – to the State replies. Such follow-up information can be of high importance to push for the resolution of some cases of violations.
Annual report to the Human Rights Council:
http://www2. ohchr.org/ english/issues/ defenders/ docs/A.HRC. 13.22.pdf
The thematic annual report of the Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council is focusing this year on the theme of the “security and protection of human rights defenders”.
This report follows the questionnaire which had been sent to you at the end of last year, and to which many of you had responded. As a consequence, do not hesitate to let us know your comments or feedback on the content of this document (topics tackled, format, etc.) which is scheduled to be presented this Thursday to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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For information, the Special Rapporteur also issued these past days two country reports following the country visits she carried out in the Democratic Republic of Congo in May/June 2009 and in Colombia in September 2009. The reports are available on the following links:
http://www2. ohchr.org/ english/bodies/ hrcouncil/ docs/13session/ A-HRC-13- 22-Add3.pdf and http://www2. ohchr.org/ english/bodies/ hrcouncil/ docs/13session/ A.HRC.13. 22.Add.2_ English.pdf
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Please note that the Rapporteur also submitted requests for country visits with a number of State authorities in 2008, including Armenia and Ireland. You will find the list on the following link: http://www2. ohchr.org/ english/issues/ defenders/ visits.htm# listvisit.
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Please feel free to send all your comments to hgabbero@fidh. org and apomeon@fidh. org.
Warm regards,
Hugo and Alexandra
Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
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