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89. […] (g) Greater risks are faced by defenders of the rights of certain groups as their work challenges social structures, traditional practices and interpretations of religious precepts that may have been used over long periods of time to condone and justify...Special Rapporteur on the right to education, E/CN.4/2001/52, January 11, 2001
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