Launch of the Declaration +25

Following a year-long period of consultations with defenders, legal analysis and a meeting of experts, we are thrilled to launch the Declaration +25, a civil society-led authoritative document endorsed by experts.

The Declaration +25 is a call to action for the protection and promotion of human rights defenders. Together with the UN Declaration on human rights defenders it forms a comprehensive set of standards and principles on defender protection grounded in international law. 

This in-person event will be moderated by Tess McEvoy, ISHR on behalf of a Secretariat of 18 organisations, and will include a panel of exceptional human rights defenders: 

• Ana Victoria Barrientos Rodriguez, programme officer, Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), El Salvador
• Zulu Anyaogu, programme associate , Partnership for Justice, Nigeria
• Fatma Aziza El Mokhtar, international coordinator, UJSARIO (the Sahrawi Youth Union), Western Sahara
• Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights

Visit the landing page of the campaign to learn more. 

We thank the Ford Foundation and the permanent missions of the UK and the US for supporting the first two stages of the Declaration +25 project.