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Women Human Rights Defenders - WHRDs

In 2013, the United Nations General Assembly (UN GA) adopted
the first GA resolution on women human rights defenders (resolution
68/181). The resolution expresses concerns over discrimination
and structural and systematic violence facing women human rights

defenders. Besides, the resolution 68/181 urges the member states
to utilize necessary measures and mechanisms to ensure safety and
gender dimension in their efforts to create a supportive environment

for the protection of human rights of women.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
to which Thailand is a signatory, guarantees rights to freedom of
peaceful assembly, freedom of expression, freedom of association and
prohibition of arbitrary arrest and detention.

The UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders affirms the
right to peacefully demonstrate against human rights violations. The
declaration prohibits acts of retaliation, intimidation and other forms

of harassments against anyone who pursues nonviolent actions against
human rights violations whether during or after their professional
involvement. A great number of human rights defenders are women.
Women human rights defenders are for example:
Women who act to promote or protect human rights and all

individuals who defend the human rights of women or work for gender
equality – collectively known as “women human rights defenders”
2
(WHRDs)
2 Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, A/HRC/16/44
(2010), para. 30

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