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EMHRF reference instruments for the protection of human rights defenders

• Principles relating to the status of national institutions (The Paris Principles)
• Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 
• United Nations Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders
• Charter of the United Nations
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966 
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
• International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
• Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 
• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)
• International Labour Conventions

Some links to regional and international NGOs providing support to human rights defenders in the South-Mediterranean region

• Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)
• International Service for Human Rights - Human Rights Defenders Office
• Human Rights First, human rights defenders 
• Frontline, the international foundation for the protection of human rights defenders
• Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint initiative by the FIDH & the OMCT
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch, human rights defenders 
• Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l’Homme - Urgent fund for human rights defenders
• Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders
• Urgent Action Fund – Protection of Women Human Rights Defenders