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      Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk
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      Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk book

      ByAlice M. Nah
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      eBook Published 23 November 2020
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429402111
      Pages 212
      eBook ISBN 9780429402111
      Subjects Global Development, Law, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Nah, A.M. (2020). Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429402111

      ABSTRACT

      This book assesses the construction, operation and effects of the international protection regime for human rights defenders, which has evolved significantly over the last twenty years in response to the risks people face as they promote and protect human rights.

      Drawing upon the experiences of human rights defenders who continue to persevere in their activism in Indonesia, Egypt, Kenya, Mexico and Colombia, this edited collection examines the ways in which formal protection mechanisms by state and civil society actors intersect with self-protection measures and informal protection initiatives by families and friends. It highlights that protection practices are most effective when they are designed to address the specific risks that human rights defenders face (which are gendered and intersectional); reflect how defenders understand ‘risk’, ‘security’ and ‘protection’; and are appropriate for the dynamic sociopolitical and legal contexts in which defenders operate. This book proposes ways in which the protection of human rights defenders at risk should be reimagined and practised.

      This book will be a thought-provoking guide for students and scholars of politics, international relations, law and human rights, as well as to practitioners engaged in the protection of human rights defenders at risk.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|33 pages

      Introduction

      Protecting human rights defenders at risk
      ByAlice M. Nah

      chapter 2|27 pages

      Dilemmas in the ethics of tanpa pamrih (selflessness)

      Risk and human rights activism in Indonesia
      ByBudi Hernawan, Alice M. Nah

      chapter 3|23 pages

      Fallen heroes, terrorists, spies, or unrealistic dreamers?

      Repression and the defence of human rights in Egypt
      ByAlice M. Nah, Ellen Husseiny

      chapter 4|20 pages

      Intersections between formal protection mechanisms and informal protection practices for defenders at risk in Kenya

      ByIrina Ichim, Patrick Mutahi

      chapter 5|26 pages

      Resisting a hostile and insecure environment for defending rights in Mexico

      ByPatricia Bartley, Erick Monterrosas, Paola Pacheco Ruiz

      chapter 6|28 pages

      Territory, community and the efficacy of the state

      Reconceiving the protection of human rights defenders in Colombia
      ByPeter Cousins, Emily Schmitz

      chapter 7|31 pages

      Protection into the future

      ByAlice M. Nah
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