{"id":14174,"date":"2019-12-06T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T12:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epi.org.mk\/post\/14174"},"modified":"2025-01-09T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T12:46:29","slug":"human-rights-defenders-in-the-western-balkans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epi.org.mk\/sq\/post\/14174","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Defenders in the Western Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-8\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>The position of human rights defenders (HRDs) in the Western Balkans is increasingly precarious. Across the region, HRDs and organisations, as well as independent media outlets, are prone to intimidation, threats, smear campaigns, digital and physical attacks, and an overall disregard by national authorities.<\/p>\n<p>While the region shares several common features (sluggish integration, weak rule of law, intimidation of HRDs, limited democratisation, lack of press freedoms etc.), naturally each country faces specific challenges and the protection of human rights has unique consequences, depending on local contexts.<\/p>\n<p>As such, this report published by CRD has been compiled by experts from each of the six Western Balkan states, who have extensively researched the challenges and position of HRDs in the region, and offered a broad range of recommendations to national authorities, the international community, media and HRDs themselves. Having interviewed 100 HRDs for the purpose of this report, it represents one of the most prolific and detailed on-the-ground studies of their position in the Western Balkans, on a country-by-country basis.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_btn3-container vc_btn3-inline vc_do_btn\" ><a class=\"vc_general vc_btn3 vc_btn3-size-md vc_btn3-shape-rounded vc_btn3-style-3d vc_btn3-color-purple\" href=\"https:\/\/epi.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Human-Rights-Defenders-Report.pdf\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">DOWNLOAD PDF<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div  class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_left wpb_content_element\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<figure class=\"wpb_wrapper vc_figure\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/epi.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Human-Rights-Defenders-Report.pdf\" target=\"_self\" class=\"vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_shadow_3d  vc_box_border_grey\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"1008\" src=\"https:\/\/epi.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hrd.jpg\" class=\"vc_single_image-img attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"hrd\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epi.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hrd.jpg 792w, https:\/\/epi.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hrd-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/epi.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hrd-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/epi.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hrd-768x977.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The position of human rights defenders (HRDs) in the Western Balkans is increasingly precarious. 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