Civil society representatives with ECOSOC accreditation, including members of the Burundian Coalition of Human Rights Defenders
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2019-010-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2019
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: -3.373056
Longitude: 29.918886
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Burundi
- From Region
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Unclear in SG Report
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
During the 2018 September session of the Human Rights Council
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
- Dates of engagement
- September 2018
- Type of attempted engagement
- Participation in meeting on UN premises
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- September 2018
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Geneva
- Reprisal information
. During the 2018 September session of the Human Rights Council, the Permanent Mission of Burundi in Geneva requested the withdrawal of the badges of a number of civil society representatives with ECOSOC accreditation
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0
sorted by
Date added
4 relationships, 3 entities