Summary: This is your chance to contribute to a UN report on reprisals against human rights defenders cooperating with the UN system.
In preparation of the Secretary-General's forthcoming report to the Human Rights Council in September 2013 on reprisals against persons cooperating with UN human rights mechanisms, you are invited to provide information about cases of reprisals. The report will cover the period from 15 June 2012 to 15 June 2013.
Deadline
Please send submissions as soon as possible, but at the latest by 15 June 2013 to: [email protected].
Submissions should:
- Fall within the scope of Human Rights Council Resolution 12/2.
- Pay attention to the security needs of the persons concerned; therefore please indicate if the victim (or his/her family) has been informed accordingly and has agreed to be mentioned in this report.
- Indicate if the alleged act of reprisal has been referred to in any UN documents (provide citations).
- Any follow-up information on the cases included in the 2011 report and the 2012 report would also be welcome (whether additional reprisals took place, whether measures were taken by the State to investigate, etc.). Please find the previous reports, which referred to cases in Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, China, Colombia, Guatemala, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malawi, Mauritania, Myanmar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Yemen at the following links
Further Information
pdf: http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?id=30852
