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Human Rights Defenders Under Siege

Author: Felipe Gómez Isa; Gorka Urrutia Asua
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035355914
Published In: December 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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

The UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders: From Momentum to Contestation 2

Felipe Gómez Isa

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

Shrinking Space for Civil Society: Paradoxes and Responses in the Defence of Human Rights 43

Antoine Buyse

Exploring Strategies to Counter the Shrinking Civic Spaces Trend. Lessons learned from civil society initiatives in Kosovo and the Philippines 52

Lena Muhs

Reducing Human Rights Defenders to Silence in Turkey 72

Zelal Pelin Doğan

Time to Take Action against SLAPPs: Defending Human Rights Defenders. Experiences from the PATFox Project 94

Alessia Schiavon

Lawfare against human rights defenders: Zimbabwe’s Private Voluntary Organizations Amendment Bill and the Patriot Bill 112

Kevin Toro Sánchez

Surveillance, Suppression, and Solidarity: Unveiling Law Enforcement Tactics Against the Anti-Law Enforcement

Violence Movement in Minnesota 127

Amelia Shindelar

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

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Saving Lives is not a Crime! Legal Persecution of Migrants’ Rights Defenders at Greek and Spanish Borders 164

Araitz Peña Mallona

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Beside Criminalization of Solidarity: The Legal Exclusion of Human Rights Defenders from Refugee Camps in Europe 180

Isabella Leroy

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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

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Collaboration between Academia and Human Rights Defenders for Refugee and Migrant Children: Lessons

Learned in the Balkans 215

Bogdan Krasiğ and Nikolina Miliğ

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Bridging Academia and Human Rights Defenders: The Student Pro Bono Legal Work Connection 240

Aikaterini Koula

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History of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) 260

Manfred Nowak and Imke Steimann

BILBAO DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS 293

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