Front Line Defenders

In view of the changes to the sit­u­a­tion in 2022, the Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion con­tin­ued to sup­port the NGO Front Line Defend­ers (FLD) in Nicaragua, in par­tic­u­lar through the allo­ca­tion of 34 pro­tec­tion grants to human rights defend­ers (HRDs) at risk, 50% of which went to women, so that they could ben­e­fit from increased secu­ri­ty. The inter­ven­tion par­tic­u­lar­ly tar­gets the most vul­ner­a­ble and mar­gin­alised HRDs, such as women, indige­nous peo­ples and HRDs in remote rur­al areas.

Lux­em­bourg par­tic­i­pat­ed in the bien­ni­al con­fer­ence organ­ised by FLD, from 26 to 28 Octo­ber 2022. Set up in 2002, the Dublin Plat­form is an event that offers a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty for human rights defend­ers from almost every coun­try in the world to come togeth­er and share advo­ca­cy and pro­tec­tion strate­gies, and strength­en sol­i­dar­i­ty with their col­leagues and par­tic­i­pants from gov­ern­men­tal and inter­gov­ern­men­tal organisations.

In view of the wors­en­ing sit­u­a­tion for HRDs in Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, the Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion will con­tin­ue its sup­port on a mul­ti­an­nu­al and region­al basis to enable the NGO to also sup­port HRDs in their efforts in El Sal­vador, Guatemala, Hon­duras and Nicaragua for the next three years (2023−2025), giv­ing a total of EUR300 000.