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The United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
reaffirms rights that are essential for WHRDs, including, freedom of opinion
and expression, freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of association,
the right to access funding and the right to develop and discuss new ideas
in the area of human rights. Defenders also have the right to make complaints
about policies relating to human rights, to have such complaints reviewed
and to benefit from an effective remedy. The Declaration “does not
create new rights but instead articulates existing rights in a way that makes it
easier to apply them to the practical role and situation of human rights
defenders.”
Women Human Rights Defenders face similar risks as their male
counterparts. However, being women, they are more vulnerable to being
the target of intimidation and structural violence based on gender and
other sexual dimensions. Often the work of women human rights defenders
is perceived as challenging and threatening to the conventional system
of beliefs and of the woman’s traditional role in the family and society.
This can lead to conflicting relationships between government officials
and the general public and induce negative attitude, discrimination,
unjust asymmetric relationship between women and men under existing
socio-economic and political structures, beliefs’ system, tradition and
culture which are prevailingly unjust to women.
Women can endure condemnation and rejection from the
community, religious and family leaders or the society who view their work
as detrimental to religion, honor, culture and structural society models
that honor men as leaders.

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