A person who undertakes an organized course of action against the violation of human rights.
human rights campaigners called for an international tribunal to try those allegedly involved
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A human rights campaigner who was investigating levels of domestic violence was so shocked by what he found that he was prompted to speak out.
He is a tireless human rights campaigner for whom nobody, in power or otherwise, is spared from scrutiny or criticism.
Human rights campaigners brand it unequivocally as a massacre, but they have still to make the charge stick.
Human rights campaigners argue that the case is just another example of the prosecution and courts using only partial testimonies to allow a conviction in a case that lacked material evidence.
The leading human rights campaigner says that in the first war alone more than 50,000 civilians were killed.
As if the use of force and terror against journalists wasn't enough, the police higher-ups decided to move against human rights campaigners.
Human rights campaigners attacked the Government's continuing hard talk on asylum, warning that the rise in applications must not prompt Ministers to reduce the problem to "a numbers game".
Human rights campaigners have pushed for an end to the death penalty, which they say violates basic human rights and has proven ineffective in deterring drug dealing.
The human rights campaigner blames the high death count on the government's fixation with corporate-style targets.
According to human rights campaigners, they are using their new popularity to smuggle weapons and recruit the young and vulnerable.