A. Which defenders are being targeted, and where?

27. Violations have also taken place against human rights defenders working on a wide array of issues including women’s rights, peace, disappearances, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.

2. Violation of the rights to life and mental and physical integrity

46. A number of detained defenders have been held in poor conditions without access to food, water, or medical care. Others have been held incommunicado or in solitary confinement with no access to their relatives or legal counsel. Defenders have equally been subjected to ill-treatment and torture while in custody. Thirty-nine members of an NGO working with sexual minorities on sexual health, including HIV/AIDS, and campaigning for the rights of sexual minorities were reportedly arrested and deprived of food and water for the first 15 days of their detention; four were allegedly forced into a police van, beaten and raped.

link to full text of the Report: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G04/168/16/PDF/G0416816.pdf