The Platform’s first and second panels focused on the threats that HRDs confront, focusing especially on those specifically faced by women HRDs. These discussions gave attention to the diverse contexts in which HRDs are endangered by their work, whether it is on ESC rights, LGBT rights, situations of armed conflict or repressive security legislation. This section of the report draws on those discussions but also on other sessions where threats were discussed, as well as on many testimonies that described HRDs’ experiences. The range of threats is wide – from assassination and physical assault, to public defamation and enforced exile, via legal harassment, defamation, and abuse against relatives and family. The analysis below is not exhaustive, and does not describe the threats in terms of their prevalence or seriousness. It focuses rather on forms of threat that appear to be becoming more prevalent, and those that were discussed most frequently during the Platform.