Annotation:
This report provides a contextual analysis of Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) work and the violence they face because of it. This report aims to systematically collate individual and collective analysis of WHRDs experiences in order to address the gap in documentation of gender-based violence against WHRDs. The report focuses on five key phenomena: fundamentalism, militarization and situations of conflict, globalization, crises of governance, and heteronormativity. The report explores strategies for protecting WHRDs at risk, and for addressing structural challenges they face in their lives and work. Urgent protection and security strategies are necessary in immediate situations of WHRDs at risk; however, it is also crucial to address the repressive structures of law and policy that put WHRDs at risk by consolidating civil and political rights such as those established by the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders.