Council of Europe:
• Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
(European Convention on Human Rights) and Protocols to the Convention:
<http://www.conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/ListeTraites.asp?MA
=3&CM=7&CL=ENG>.
• The jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights can be searched at:
<http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/Pages/search.aspx>.
Organization of American States:
• American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR), American Declaration of the
Rights and Duties of Man and other Inter-American human rights instruments:
<http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/mandate/basic_documents.asp>.
3. INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL MECHANISMS FOR THE
PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS
United Nations:
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders: <http://www.
ohchr.org/EN/Issues/SRHRDefenders/Pages/SRHRDefendersIndex.aspx>.
(For a list of all thematic Special Procedure mandates of the Human Rights Council,
including others of relevance to the work of human rights defenders, see: <http://
www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/Themes.aspx>)
Council of Europe:
• Commissioner for Human Rights, <http://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/
human-rights-defenders>.
Organization of American States:
• Inter-American Commission Rapporteurship on Human Rights Defenders,
<http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/defenders/default.asp>.
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