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Promoting a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders

Promoting a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders: The OSCE/ODIHR Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

Published: September 10, 2014 Author: Florian Irminger, Head of Advocacy and HRHF Geneva Office

When: Monday, 15. September 2014 13:00 – 15:00
To: Monday, 15. September 2014
Where: Geneva (Switzerland), Palais des Nations, room XXVII
Host: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Contact: Florian Irminger, Head of Advocacy and HRHF Geneva Office (florian.irminger@humanrightshouse.org / +41 22 33 22 552)

Speakers will include:

Omer Fisher
Deputy Head of the Human Rights Department, ODIHR
Michel Forst
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Centre for Civil Liberties, Ukraine
Florian Irminger
Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF)

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