A/HRC/46/12
104.90
Ensure the effectiveness of the Mechanism for the Protection of
Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Social Communicators and Justice
Officials by allocating sufficient funds and by comprehensively evaluating its
performance (Netherlands); Ensure technical and financial resources to the
recently created mechanisms to protect human rights defenders (Portugal);
Implement more effectively and fully the 2016 national protection mechanism to
ensure the protection of human rights defenders (Ireland);
104.91
Refrain from criminalizing human rights defenders and ensure their
protection (Norway);
104.92
Ensure that crimes against human rights defenders, journalists,
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, indigenous people and
Afro-Honduran activists are properly investigated and that those responsible are
held accountable (Norway);
104.93
Protect journalists and human rights defenders, including by
allocating sufficient resources to the protection mechanism for human rights
defenders and by involving civil society (France);
104.94
Review national law in order to protect the rights to freedom of
expression, association and participation in peaceful protests (Portugal);
104.95
Continue to improve national legislation regarding respect for
human rights and freedoms (Russian Federation);
104.96
Take all necessary measures to preserve a free, safe and enabling
environment for human rights defenders, journalists and media workers and
ensure that they can do their work without facing intimidation or harassment
(Slovakia);
104.97
Ensure thorough, prompt, impartial and independent investigations
into all attacks, threats and assaults against human rights defenders and
journalists, and bring to justice those suspected of criminal responsibility for
such crimes (Slovenia);
104.98
Strengthen, including through financial means, the national system
and the Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Journalists,
Social Communicators and Justice Officials and the Office of the Special
Prosecutor for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Social
Communicators and Justice Officials in order to provide an effective response to
the violence and harassment suffered by these people (Spain);
104.99
Finance and carry out an effective policy for preventing violence and
acts of intimidation against the media, human rights defenders and the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex population, taking into account a gender
perspective (Switzerland);
104.100
Substantially improve efforts to effectively protect journalists,
human rights defenders and environmentalists, as well as vulnerable groups such
as women, youth, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and
indigenous people, including by effectively combating impunity (Germany);
104.101
Involve civil society organizations in the decision-making processes
of the national protection mechanism (Germany);
104.102
Increase protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
intersex individuals, journalists and human rights defenders, including
environmental human rights defenders, from threats and attacks and fully
investigate, prosecute and punish all acts of violence in accordance with the law
(Australia);
104.103
Strengthen efforts to promptly, effectively and impartially
investigate any allegations of violence or reprisals against journalists, human
rights defenders, land rights defenders and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
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