The Time is Now (Executive Summary)

Given the high number of attacks against human rights defenders in the Americas (and the rest of the world), this research tries to find out what is going wrong with the national mechanisms and programs that several governments in the region have implemented to protect them.

This document is a summarized version of It’s Time Now. Public policies for the right to defend rights, joint publication of Protection International and CEJIL. For an in-depth analysis of the summarized points, we recommend consulting the complete publication, which you can also find on this page.