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Human rights cannot be confiscated by dictators or erased by poverty. They are inescapable – and powerful.

People everywhere know that intuitively. And autocrats, especially, know that human rights pose the greatest threat to their rule. That’s why they stop at nothing to deny, dismiss, and distract people, as they trample on basic rights and freedoms.

Most human rights work happens in cramped offices, courtrooms and newsrooms, detention centres and prisons. It happens wherever people are working to promote access to healthcare, education, shelter, food security, water and sanitation, for the most vulnerable people in the world.

Environmental campaigners, many of them women, young people and indigenous communities, are on the frontlines of human rights work.

Human rights defenders are standing up for our common humanity – often at great personal risk. Together, they are helping to build a world of dignity and equality for all. I salute them and honour their work.

Here is the link to my petition:

https://chng.it/Bp5dXZMJ6H