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Defending Human Rights in the Age of Terror
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This paper is part of a larger research project on human rights defenders. I wish to thank the
University of Essex for supporting the project through its Research Promotion Fund, Anat Barsella for her research assistance on coding the abuse events data, Sam Nash for his research into the passage of Post-911 anti-terror legislation around the world, and Hugh Ward for the suggestion on capturing the US aid ‘bonus’. I would also like to thank those from the international human rights NGO and IGO community who have helped thus far, including Lorna Davidson and Kristin Flood from Human Rights First, Julie de Rivero and Chris Sidoti from the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), Eric Sottas, Michael Anthony, Immaculada Barcia, and Meghna Abraham from the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), Antoine Bernard, Julianne Falloux, and Alexa LeBlanc from the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH), and Chloe Baszanger and Ben Majekodunmi from the office of the Special Representative to the Secretary General on Human Rights Defenders (Geneva).
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Given the relatively crude nature in which HRD data are held in Geneva, this paper used the narrative
accounts provided in the annual reports of the World Observatory for Human Rights Defenders (see Part Two.).
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FIDH comprises a federation of 144 partner NGOs (Landman and Abraham 2004).
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The extant international law on HRDs and violations against them remains largely opaque. On the one
hand international human rights treaties have specified the full legal content of most human rights, with residual problems with respect to some social and economic rights. On the other hand, forms of abuse against HRDs may simply constitute common criminal acts such as burglary, but since these acts have been committed against HRDs, there has been a tendency within the international community to subsume them under the auspices of international human rights law.
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1
This paper is part of a larger research project on human rights defenders. I wish to thank the
University of Essex for supporting the project through its Research Promotion Fund, Anat Barsella for
her research assistance on coding the abuse events data, Sam Nash for his research into the passage of
Post-911 anti-terror legislation around the world, and Hugh Ward for the suggestion on capturing the
US aid ‘bonus’. I would also like to thank those from the international human rights NGO and IGO
community who have helped thus far, including Lorna Davidson and Kristin Flood from Human Rights
First, Julie de Rivero and Chris Sidoti from the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), Eric
Sottas, Michael Anthony, Immaculada Barcia, and Meghna Abraham from the World Organisation
Against Torture (OMCT), Antoine Bernard, Julianne Falloux, and Alexa LeBlanc from the
International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH), and Chloe Baszanger and Ben
Majekodunmi from the office of the Special Representative to the Secretary General on Human Rights
Defenders (Geneva).
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Given the relatively crude nature in which HRD data are held in Geneva, this paper used the narrative
accounts provided in the annual reports of the World Observatory for Human Rights Defenders (see
Part Two.).
3
FIDH comprises a federation of 144 partner NGOs (Landman and Abraham 2004).
4
The extant international law on HRDs and violations against them remains largely opaque. On the one
hand international human rights treaties have specified the full legal content of most human rights, with
residual problems with respect to some social and economic rights. On the other hand, forms of abuse
against HRDs may simply constitute common criminal acts such as burglary, but since these acts have
been committed against HRDs, there has been a tendency within the international community to
subsume them under the auspices of international human rights law.
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