#HRC52 Success through perseverance & solidarity: 25 years of achievements by human rights defenders
Channel: ISHRGlobal
Date: 2023-03-14

52th session of the Human Rights Council SIDE EVENT
Report Launch: Success through perseverance and solidarity: 25 years of achievements by Human Rights Defenders

Reception at 14:00
Event from 14:30 to 15:30

Restaurant Vieux Bois
Av. de la Paix 12, 1202 Genève

To mark the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on human rights defenders in 1998, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, will focus on successes achieved by human rights defenders in her upcoming thematic report to the Human Rights Council. The report will demonstrate how the work of defenders is crucial in helping achieve more just and equitable societies. 

This side event will take place a day before the Special Rapporteur’s presentation of the report to the Human Rights Council and in addition to the Special Rapporteur herself, the panel will include a State representative who will outline how that State collaborated with defenders to bring about human rights gains. It will also include two defenders who will speak about successes they have achieved.

SPEAKERS
Mary Lawlor - UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders
H.E. Mr. Gustavo Gallon - Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Tara Houska - US-based citizen of Couchiching First Nation, Environmental & Indigenous rights defender
Daniel Goinic - Human Rights Program Director at Legal Resources Centre in Moldova 

MODERATOR
Imogen Foulkes - BBC Correspondent in Geneva

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