By Amnesty International

http://www.amnesty.ca/sites/default/files/2012-12-07transformingpainintohope.pdf

Human rights defenders play a fundamental role in helping to create a world where the
promise of human rights becomes a reality for all. Drawing on decades of work with defenders
in the Americas region – Central, North and South America and the Caribbean – this report
highlights both the enormous progress that they have helped bring about, and the dangers
that they continue to face.