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Front Line Defenders

NGO / non-profit · Human rights & humanitarian · HQ: Ireland · Transparency Register entry

As of 9 September 2026, Front Line Defenders appears in 31 declared MEP meetings (24 different MEPs), most often with Greens/EFA.

31
declared meetings
with current MEPs
24
MEPs met
not declared
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
4.5
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Front Line Defenders was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs), people who work, non-violently, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Human rights defenders at local and national levels are recognised to be essential actors in the struggle for human…”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 31 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Greens/EFA1239%
Socialists & Democrats826%
European People's Party413%
Renew Europe413%
The Left310%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2019–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (9 in 2024).

2019
2
2020
0
2021
2
2022
4
2023
3
2024
9
2025
6
2026
5

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

Hannah Neumann
3 meetings · Greens/EFA
Isabel Wiseler-Lima
2 meetings · EPP
Erik Marquardt
2 meetings · Greens/EFA
Mounir Satouri
2 meetings · Greens/EFA
Cristina Maestre
2 meetings · S&D

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
8 Jul 2026Erik MarquardtHuman Rights Defenders
13 May 2026Evin IncirHuman rights situation in Cuba
24 Mar 2026Mounir SatouriAssassinat de défenseurs des droits humains comme outil de répression
5 Mar 2026Catarina Martinshuman rights
5 Mar 2026Martin GüntherHuman rights and Western Sahara
2 Jun 2025Cristina MaestreHuman Rights Situation in Thailand
27 May 2025Laura Ballarín CerezaHuman Rights
15 May 2025Villy SøvndalUkraine
14 May 2025Paulius SaudargasHuman rights situation of Crimean Tatars
14 May 2025Thijs ReutenCrimean Tatar
26 Mar 2025Cristina MaestreHuman Rights in India
10 Dec 2024Catarina VieiraHuman rights defenders in Burkina Faso
10 Dec 2024Chloé RidelHuman rights defenders - Burkina faso
3 Oct 2024Mounir SatouriDéfenseurs des droits humains
3 Oct 2024Rima HassanWe Are Not Numbers (WANN)

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