Right Livelihood on Human Rights Defenders in Exile

Right Livelihood on Human rights defenders in exile

The Right Livelihood Foundation and partners have gone into the problems faced by Human Rights Defenders in exile: Leaving your country means more than crossing a border. It means stepping into uncertainty, a place where language falters, futures blur and belonging must be rebuilt. But exile can also open doors. It can broaden perspectives, forge new alliances and inspire people to rebuild on their own terms. Through the project “Reconceptualisi…

Human rights defenders in exile call for stronger protection systems

Many of the rights people enjoy today exist because human rights defenders have challenged abuses of power, often at great personal risk. Yet the space for that work is shrinking. According to the CIVICUS Monitor, only 3 per cent of the world’s population lives in countries where civic space is fully open, while more than 72 per cent live under repressed, obstructed or closed civic space. As repression expands, increasing numbers of defenders ar…