0 someone in a sports team who tries to prevent the other team from scoring points, goals, etc. -- defensa
1 a person who defends (someone or something) -- defensor
By calling for reforms in the inhumane blasphemy laws, he was a human rights defender.
I am no fanatical defender of profits for pharmaceutical industry multinationals.
We are facing a fierce intensification of repression directed against human rights defenders.
I am a staunch defender of genuine human rights.
Again today the hypocritical ‘defenders’ of human rights and the oppressed are silent.
Nowadays, no one should be able to set themselves up at one and the same time as accuser, defender, judge and executioner – you might as well say torturer.
