Front Line Defenders

Human Rights and Democracy Network http://www.hrdn.eu/
Front Line Defenders has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations https://www.un.org/ecosoc/en/home
Front Line Defenders is also a member of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org/, ESCRNet – the International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights https://www.escr-net.org/, and the International Human Rights Funders Group https://www.ihrfg.org/, and is an Associate Member of Dóchas – The Irish Association of Non-Governmental Development Organisations http://www.dochas.ie/
Lifeline - Embattled CSOs Assistance Fund
Journalists in Distress Network
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/who-we-are.
Front Line Defenders is a member of the EU Human Rights Defenders Mechanism, protectdefenders.eu, and sits on its board: https://protectdefenders.eu/

None declared

Does not represent commercial interests

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

10,946,628€

The amounts of EU funding highlighted in point d) refer to EU funding registered as income by Front Line Defenders in most recent closed fiscal year (2023).

FLD received more funding from the EU in 2023 but what is not recorded above was disbursed to partner organisations - mostly to those part of the ProtectDefenders.eu consortium that FLD coordinates - for delivery of activities in joint Actions.

None declared

Unofficial groupings

Implementation of EU Strategic Framework and Action Plan on Human Rights (EEAS, EC, Member States)
Implementation of EU Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders
Annual Calls for proposals on Human Rights Defenders
Dissemination and advocacy around our Annual Report, Dispatches and thematic/country reports

None declared

9 meetings found. Download meetings

The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

• Date	06 Jul 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of Democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Věra Jourová (Vice-President) Simona Constantin (Cabinet member) Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	The Innovation in Politics Institute GmbH Civil Society Europe Foundation on European Citizens’ Rights, Involvement and Trust

• Date	17 Mar 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of democracy package
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	European Civic Forum

• Date	01 Dec 2022	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Speech at the 2nd GAP III Structured Dialogue with CSOs
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	PLATFORMA

• Date	31 Aug 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Exchange on EU support to human rights defenders
  Cabinet	Cabinet of High Representative Josep Borrell Fontelles
  Portfolio	High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the Commission
  Attending	Fiona Knab-Lunny (Cabinet member)

• Date	11 Jan 2022	Location	video call
  Subject	Mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	An Economy that Works for People
  Attending	Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

• Date	09 Dec 2021	Location	online
  Subject	sustainable corporate governance initiative, CSRD
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
  Portfolio	Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Florian Denis (Cabinet member) Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	CIDSE - International Alliance of Catholic social justice organisations Christian Aid Ireland

• Date	17 Sep 2021	Location	videoconference
  Subject	upcoming proposal on sustainable corporate governance
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member) Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	International Federation for Human Rights European Coalition for Corporate Justice

• Date	21 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	meeting to urge for more attention to be paid to human rights defenders in the NDICI
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)

• Date	06 Mar 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Presentation of the situation of human rights defenders in the world and their role in development
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica
  Portfolio	International Cooperation & Development
  Attending	Irena Andrassy (Cabinet member)