The Defenders in Development Campaign brings together human rights defenders and advocates from around the world to ensure that communities and marginalized groups have the information, resources, protection and power to shape, participate in, or oppose development activities, and to hold development actors accountable. Signatories commit to collective action to usher in a fundamentally different model of development – one that respects, protects, and fulfills human rights and safeguards those who defend them. They call upon Development Finance Institutions to take all urgent and necessary action to ensure they respect, protect, and fulfill human rights in all their activities. Read more here.
Source: Coalition of Human Rights in Development