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− Level of activities and outreach:
• Grass-root;
• National;
• Regional and international;
− Gender:
• Level of participation, organization and representation of women defenders;
• Prominence of women’s rights on the agenda of defenders;
• Patterns of gender-based human rights violations against defenders;
− Non-discrimination:
• Level of participation, organization and representation of defenders belonging to or
working on the rights of groups discriminated against (minorities, LGBT persons,
disabled persons, indigenous peoples, migrants, etc.);
• Prominence of equality on the agenda of defenders;
• Patterns of human rights violations against defenders belonging to or working on the
rights of groups discriminated against;
− Networks and coordination:
• Level of solidarity and coordination among defenders;
• Existence and effectiveness of common goals and strategies agreed upon by
defenders;
• Networks on thematic areas, at different levels (grass-root towards international and
vice versa), across sectors of civil society (academia, social movements, NGOs, trade
unions, bar associations, etc.);
− Capacity to access and use national, regional and international human rights
mechanisms;
− Transparency, objectivity and accuracy in the work of human rights defenders;
− Funding:
• Availability of funding opportunities, within and outside the country;
• Capacity to obtain funding;
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