Front Line
 Ireland  |  Human Rights

To protect human rights defenders at risk, people who work, non-violently, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Front Line is the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. Front Line was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk, people who work, non-violently, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Front Line aims to address the protection needs identified by defenders themselves. Front Line seeks to provide rapid and practical support to at-risk human rights defenders through international advocacy and grants to pay for the practical security needs of human rights defenders. In emergency situations Front Line can facilitate temporary relocation of human rights defenders. Front Line promotes strengthened international and regional measures to protect human rights defenders including through support for the work of the UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders. Front Line seeks to promote respect for the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. We also run an an emergency 24 hour phone line for human rights defenders operating in Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Russian.

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