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8 CHRI 2009 REPORT: SILENCING THE DEFENDERS •
Chapter I UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders The UN Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was agreed to unanimously by the General Assembly in 1998. It does not create new rights but rearticulates already existing rights in the context of the activities of human rights defenders. The Declaration was adopted in recognition of two fundamental facts: first, that the activities engaged in by human rights defenders are legitimate and valuable, and second, that by engaging in those activities human rights defenders make themselves vulnerable to reprisals. • CHRI 2009 REPORT: SILENCING THE DEFENDERS 9
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