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Human Rights Defenders Under Siege

Human Rights Defenders Under Siege

Name: Human Rights Defenders Under Siege
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035355914
Price: 1513.20 HKD
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Author: Felipe Gómez Isa; Gorka Urrutia Asua
ISBN: 9781035355914

Edited by Felipe Gómez Isa · Gorka Urrutia Asua

Edward Elgar Publishing December 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781035355914
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: December 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

In this timely book, human rights academics, activists and officials in the field discuss the achievements and challenges since the 1998 adoption of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (HRDs). The book includes a balanced combination of theoretical approaches and case studies with a global reach, developed under the institutional umbrella of the Association of Human Rights Institutes.

Chapters provide an overview of HRDs, moving from an introduction to conceptual issues, to considering the shrinking space for civil society and the increasing obstacles to HRDs working to protect the rights of migrants in Europe. They also explore the unprecedented restrictions and attacks faced by HRDs implemented by State authorities and non-State actors, encompassing intimidation, arbitrary detention and criminalization.

Human Rights Defenders Under Siege is a crucial resource for scholars and students in human rights law, public international law, and politics and public policy. Policymakers and practitioners will also benefit from its valuable insights, due to the increase in programs and funding schemes for the protection of HRDs.

Foreword xiv; Preface xv; PART I. INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES; 1.
The UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders: From Momentum to Contestation 2: Felipe Gómez Isa; 2.
What’s in a Name? The Debate on Human Rights Defenders in the European Union 23: Dolores Morondo Taramundi; PART II. SHRINKING SPACE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY; 3.
Shrinking Space for Civil Society: Paradoxes and Responses in the Defence of Human Rights 43: Antoine Buyse; 4.
Exploring Strategies to Counter the Shrinking Civic Spaces Trend. Lessons learned from civil society initiatives in Kosovo and the Philippines 52: Lena Muhs; 5.
Reducing Human Rights Defenders to Silence in Turkey 72: Zelal Pelin Doğan; 6.
Time to Take Action against SLAPPs: Defending Human Rights Defenders. Experiences from the PATFox Project 94: Alessia Schiavon; 7.
Lawfare against human rights defenders: Zimbabwe’s Private Voluntary Organizations Amendment Bill and the Patriot Bill 112: Kevin Toro Sánchez; 8.
Surveillance, Suppression, and Solidarity: Unveiling Law Enforcement Tactics Against the Anti-Law Enforcement: Violence Movement in Minnesota 127; Amelia Shindelar; 9.
Stigmatizing Indigenous Human Rights Defenders as Terrorists: A Case Study of Social Protest and Peruvian State Repression to Secure Extractivism 142: Sarah Kerremans; PART III. INCREASING OBSTACLES TO MIGRANTS’ RIGHTS DEFENDERS; 10.
Saving Lives is not a Crime! Legal Persecution of Migrants’ Rights Defenders at Greek and Spanish Borders 164: Araitz Peña Mallona; 11.
Beside Criminalization of Solidarity: The Legal Exclusion of Human Rights Defenders from Refugee Camps in Europe 180: Isabella Leroy; 12.
No Aid Without Surveillance: The Facilitators Package and the Expansion of Crimmigration Towards Civil Society 198: Gustavo de la Orden Bosch; PART IV. ACADEMIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS; 13.
Collaboration between Academia and Human Rights Defenders for Refugee and Migrant Children: Lessons: Learned in the Balkans 215; Bogdan Krasiğ and Nikolina Miliğ; 14.
Bridging Academia and Human Rights Defenders: The Student Pro Bono Legal Work Connection 240: Aikaterini Koula; 15.
History of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) 260: Manfred Nowak and Imke Steimann; BILBAO DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS 293