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OSCE/ODIHR Director joins statement calling for better protection of rights defenders
- Date:
- Place:
- WARSAW
- Source:
- OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
- Fields of work:
- Human rights
WARSAW, 9 December 2008 - The Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Janez Lenarcic, and four other high-level international human rights representatives issued a joint statement today warning on the persistent challenges facing rights defenders, ten years after the adoption the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders.
The full text of the statement is available here:
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