Phil Lynch

Phil Lynch is Director of the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva (www.ishr.ch). Follow him on Twitter at @PhilALynch.

The High Commissioner for Human Rights: a human rights defender-in-chief

The new High Commissioner has a particular responsibility to protect human rights defenders, especially so when they face intimidation and reprisals for their efforts to seek accountability at the UN for human rights violations. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on the New High Commiss

By Phil Lynch

/ 16 Jul 2014