JOURNALISTS Everyone who observes, describes, documents and analyses events, statements, policies, and any propositions that can affect society, with the purpose of systematizing such information and gathering of facts and analyses to inform sectors of society or society as a whole, and others who share these journalistic functions, including all media workers and support staff, as well as community media workers and so-called “citizen journalists” when they momentarily play that role, 30 professional full-time reporters and analysts, as well as bloggers and others who engage in forms of selfpublication in print, on the internet or elsewhere.31 TRADE UNIONISTS Everyone exercising their right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of their interests.32 A trade union is an association of workers organized to protect and promote their common interests. 33 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS Everyone exercising their right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at national and international levels, 34 including some journalists and trade unionists. 30 A/HRC/20/17, para 4 Human Rights Committtee, General Comment 34, para 44 32UDHR, Art. 23, 4, supplemented by ICESCR, Article 8 33 ILO, Glossary on Labour Law and Industrial Relatons (with special reference to the European Union) (Geneva, 2005) p 250 34 Article 1, Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, UNGA Res 53/144, A/RES/53/144 31 21