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The Esperanza Protocol (PLE) addresses threats faced by human rights defenders, journalists, and others tasked with preserving democracy and the full enjoyment of human rights across the world. The Protocol provides useful guidance for government officials, prosecutors, judges, human rights defenders (HRDs), journalists and others. The PLE underlines the individual and collective impact of threats on human rights defenders. It provides a roadmap for establishing public policies to effectively address threats as well as guidelines for the prosecution of threats.
The Protocol invokes hope (Esperanza in Spanish) for two reasons: first, because its primary aim is to ensure a hopeful future for human rights defenders. The second is in honor of La Esperanza, a town in western Honduras that is the hometown of Berta Cáceres, indigenous-rights activist, feminist, and environmentalist who was murdered in 2016 after 33 uninvestigated threats.
PT: Este protocolo está disponível apenas em inglês e espanhol.
FR: Ce protocole est uniquement disponible en anglais et en espagnol.
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esperanzaprotocol.net/es/about-the-esperanza-protocol
PT: Este protocolo está disponível apenas em inglês e espanhol.
FR: Ce protocole est uniquement disponible en anglais et en espagnol.
