Following a year-long period of consultations with defenders, legal analysis and a meeting of experts, we are thrilled to launch the Declaration +25, a civil society-led authoritative document endorsed by experts.

The Declaration +25 is a call to action for the protection and promotion of human rights defenders. Together with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, it forms a comprehensive set of standards and principles on defender protection grounded in international law.

This in-person event will be moderated by Tess McEvoy from the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) on behalf of a Secretariat of 18 organisations, and will include a panel of exceptional human rights defenders:

• Ana Victoria Barrientos Rodriguez, programme officer, Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), El Salvador
• Zulu Anyaogu, programme associate , Partnership for Justice, Nigeria
• Fatma Aziza El Mokhtar, international coordinator, UJSARIO (the Sahrawi Youth Union), Western Sahara
• Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights