Statistics from the Front Line database on the number of cases of human rights defenders at risk taken up so far in 2008. Each case can generate one or more follow-up actions.

Total number of cases: 252 - actions: 470 (2007: 201 cases)

22 : Bahrain (2007; 4) 21 : Russian Federation (6) 20 : Uzbekistan (10) 15 : India (9) 14 : Iran, Islamic Republic of (17) 13 : Syrian Arab Republic (none) 11 : Philippines (3) 10 : Tunisia (12) 9 : Colombia (13) 7 : China (2) 7 : Guatemala (3) 6 : Western Sahara (2) 6 : Honduras (3) 6 : Azerbaijan (1) 5 : Brazil (4) 5 : Congo, The Democratic Republic of the (6) 4 : Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (14) 4 : Belarus 4 : Egypt (1) 4 : Zimbabwe (14) 4 : Myanmar (5) 4 : Uganda (2) 3 : Saudi Arabia 3 : Rwanda 3 : Yemen (2) 3 : Mexico (5) 3 : United States 2 : Nigeria 2 : Argentina 2 : Malaysia (1) 2 : Serbia 2 : Morocco 2 : Israel 2 : Peru (1) 2 : Iraq 2 : Afghanistan (1) 2 : Palestinian Territory, Occupied (4) 1 : Serbia and Montenegro 1 : Kenya 1 : Burundi 1 : Nepal (5) 1 : Lebanon (1) 1 : Vietnam 1 : Somalia (5) 1 : Pakistan (2) 1 : Turkey 1 : Cuba 1 : Sri Lanka 1 : Haiti 1 : Hungary (1) 1 : Sierra Leone 1 : Kyrgyzstan (2) 1 : Thailand

In the revised database we are also beginning to measure outcomes but we do not yet have any meaningful statistics.