Global Report on the Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders
The Global Report gives a contextual analysis of theenvironment in which WHRDs work and the violations they face because of theirgender and/or work defending gender-based rights. It is intended that the GlobalReport is primarily an advocacy and capacity building tool, bothimportant measures for WHRDs’ protection and the prevention of further abuses.It is a contribution to the ongoing documentation of thesituation of WHRDs that will enable informed advocacy from the local toregional and international level. The Global Report isa publication of the Women Human Rights Defenders InternationalCoalition (WHRD IC).
OMCT is a member of the Women Human RightsDefenders International Coalition (WHRD IC), a resource and advocacynetwork for the protection and support of women human rights defenders (WHRDs)worldwide. WHRDs are women active in human rights defense who are targeted forwho they are as well as those active in the defense of women’s rights who aretargeted for what they do. This includes human rights activists who are women,as well as other activists (whether male, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgenderor intersex) who also defend the rights of women and sexual rights.