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A/HRC/55/50: "We are not just the future": challenges faced by child and youth human rights defenders - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders

Published

17 January 2024

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A/HRC/55/50

Focus

Human rights defenders

Summary

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, analyses the situation of child and youth human rights defenders, with a particular focus on structural and societal barriers to their activism, legal restrictions on their participation in civic space and the human rights violations that they face as a result of their peaceful activities in promoting and protecting human rights.

Issued By:

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders

Delivered To:

Human Rights Council at its fifty-fifth session