Community development as the pursuit of human rights: The new direction of travel?
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The activities of human rights defenders concern all categories of human rights: civil, cultural, economic, political, and social. Inspired and guided by human rights standards, human rights defenders act against the serious problems that affect the life of people throughout the world, such as hunger and poverty, intolerance and discrimination, abuse of power and corruption, insecurity, conflicts and repression, injustice and deprivation of liberty.... The concept of prevention takes a prominent place.... Human rights defenders, Report of the UN Secretary-General [to the 55 session of the General Assembly], UN Doc. A/55/292 (11 August 2000), para. 4.
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