Annex X: Indicators identified by the UN Special Representative (now Special Rapporteur) on Human Rights Defenders to assess compliance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights 220 Defenders The Special Representative identifies the following indicators: Legislation − Compliance of legislation relevant to the activities of defenders with the Declaration. Several laws can be relevant for the activities of human rights defenders, from laws on NGOs, to those on access to information, freedom of peaceful assembly, witness protection, right to strike, etc. An enabling environment for human rights defenders − Enjoyment of rights and freedoms instrumental to the activities of defenders and recognized by the Declaration, e.g. freedom of expression, association, peaceful assembly, access to information, including access to detention places and police stations, access to remedies. Each of these rights has a full set of indicators to measure their level of implementation, which are not developed in this report; − Existence and effectiveness of independent national human rights institutions; − Systematic collaboration with public authorities; − Systematic participation and consultation in decision-making processes, including in law and policymaking; − Policies on human rights defenders (e.g. strategy on the implementation of the Declaration, national plan on human rights including human rights defenders, policies on the collaboration with civil society); − Human rights education policies and programmes; − Open support to defenders from public authorities and the political establishment. To assess the community of human rights defenders − Number and types of organisations; − Type of activities undertaken by defenders: • Capacity-building and human rights education; • Awareness-raising and outreach; • Monitoring and reporting; • Legal aid; • Research and development of new human rights ideas; • Civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights; − Level of activities and outreach: • Grass-root; • National; • Regional and international; − Gender: • Level of participation, organisation and representation of women defenders; • Prominence of women’ s rights on the agenda of defenders; • Patterns of gender-based human rights violations against defenders; 220 Jilani, op. cit note 11. para. 75-78. 86