The study explores the implementation of the European Union (EU) Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders, which constitute the policy framework and provide the operational means for protecting human rights activists in third countries. The first part of the study, written internally, provides an institutional perspective on implementing the Guidelines. It assesses the development of the EU framework to support human rights defenders, including EU Member States’ emergency measures, and evaluates the coordination of such efforts. It also examines the European Parliament’s support for human rights defenders and considers its impact on the EU’s overall work on defender protection. It provides an evidence-based analysis of how EU missions apply the Guidelines in countries where human rights defenders particularly challenge rights and freedoms, and assesses when and why measures have not been applied. Read more here.
Source: Europa.eu
