🗣️| Human Rights Defenders stand up for our democracies & we must protect them.

In my work on the new EU Directive on #VAW I have proposed that violence against Human Rights Defenders should be an aggravating circumstance.

Addressing MEPs last night ⤵️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FitzgeraldFrncs/status/1636374116210212866