Front line defenders

Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion there­fore decid­ed to launch a three-year project (2022−2025) with a bud­get of EUR300,000, designed to pro­vide holis­tic pro­tec­tion and sup­port for the safe­ty of HRDs in El Sal­vador, Hon­duras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Lux­em­bourg is also sup­port­ing the FLD, dur­ing the 2023 – 2026 peri­od, in a region­al approach in Africa, focus­ing on the coun­tries in which Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion oper­ates (Sene­gal, Niger, Mali, Burk­i­na Faso, Benin and Rwan­da). Over­all, the sit­u­a­tion of HRDs in west­ern and cen­tral Africa is dete­ri­o­rat­ing. Often, nation­al secu­ri­ty is advanced as a rea­son for restric­tions on civic space, such as the free­doms of asso­ci­a­tion and expres­sion, endan­ger­ing the activ­i­ties and often even the per­son­al free­dom of HRDs.