[OPINION] Pathways to peace: Protect women human rights defenders

'Only when women are free to safely promote and protect human rights in conflict will we see peace overcome war'

and to step out of the space allocated to you to confront abuses. In the last 40 years I have met many courageous women who have risked everything to defend the rights of others in conflict settings.

The time of the peoples remains elusive and it is hard to think of a single greater threat to human rights and the dream of people like Bety than violent conflict. This year in which we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights is also the year in which there are moreAn estimated 2 billion people – 25% of the world’s population – live in places affected by conflict.

In preparing an upcoming report to the UN General Assembly, I spoke with dozens of WHRDs in conflict settings. In the report, I detail how WHRDs provide services to the most vulnerable. Lyudmyla Yankina, a nurse by profession, drove around Kyiv in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in order to deliver essential food and medical supplies to the disabled, the elderly and the terminally ill.

WHRDs document human rights violations, which paves the way for a just peace post-conflict and accountability for crimes. In Iraq, WHRDs collected evidence of the crimes carried out by ISIS against the Yazidi community and it was their persistent advocacy that led to the passage of the Yazidi Female Survivors Law in Iraq in 2021.

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