ABSTRACT
The book's conclusion offers a concise overview of the key insights gained from the research. On this basis, it discusses predicaments in individual casework on defenders, their practical and ethical implications, and possible remedies. One central finding is that human rights defenders can, in fact, often be protected through the international visibility of attention-based campaigns. However, despite its transformative objective, the protection pursued by international actors has a strong humanitarian focus and primarily relates to defenders' physical integrity. Yet this only covers a small part of the repressive repertoire that authoritarian states frequently and effectively use to quell human rights activities. International attention-based casework can only be expected to enable or safeguard human rights defenders' role as agents of change if it systematically addresses soft and covert types of repression next to physical integrity violations.
