The Global Report on the Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders was developed by the members of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition.

The Global Report on the Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders was developed by the members of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition.

Through 43 cases studies, this report provides a vivid glimpse of the landscape in which women human rights defenders live and work. The report is divided into three main chapters – 1) the contexts in which women defenders work, 2) violations against women defenders, and 3) strategies to address the situation of women defenders.

The main focus of the Global Report is, however, on the context in which women human rights defenders work, recognizing that the social, cultural, economic and political environment substantively influences the challenges these defenders face and can exacerbate their vulnerability. Identifying context also enables the experience of women defenders to be understood as more than individual occurrences, but rather as part of a systemic and structural oppression of these defenders because of their gender and/or the work that they do on gender-related issues.

The contextual analysis is informed by five 5ey phenomena—fundamentalisms; militarization and situations of conflict; globalization; crises of democracy or governance; and heteronormativity.

You can download the Global Report on the Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders here.