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LCHR Analysis of UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders 
United Nations Hina Jilani’s presentation to the Third Committee, Nov. 2001 Declaration on Human Rights Defenders Mandate of the Special Representative Report of the Special Representative to the Commission, Feb. 2002 Report
of the Special Representative to Commission, Jan. 2001  Human Rights Defenders Project
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Special
Representative  The
Lawyers Committee was among the first organizations to call for the
adoption of an international instrument focusing on the rights of
human rights defenders, along with the creation of a United Nations
Special Representative. We believed that these measures were necessary
to increase international awareness of the vital work of human rights
defenders, and to serve as a rallying point to support human rights
defenders suffering persecution. From 1994, the Lawyers Committee
repeatedly sent representatives to the Working Group created by the
UN Commission on Human Rights in order to draft the Declaration
on Human Rights Defenders. After years of discussion,
in which we played an active role, governments agreed in 1998 on a
text upholding the rights of human rights defenders to carry out their
work. (See Lawyers
Committee analysis of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
)
During the process of drafting the Declaration, the Lawyers Committee advocated the creation of a mechanism to monitor restrictions placed by states on the ability of independent groups and private individuals to engage in the promotion and protection of universally recognized human rights. Subsequently, in 2000, the Commission on Human Rights resolved to create a Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders (See Commission resolution 2000/61 ) On August 18 2000, Ms. Hina Jilani, a highly respected human rights lawyer from Pakistan, was appointed to this position. |
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