Our priorities The vast majority of people who are at risk of human rights violations are isolated and vulnerable on multiple fronts. Whilst we believe that everyone should enjoy human rights, over the life of the strategic plan, the APF will specifically focus on the following vulnerable groups: • Children • Women • People with disabilities • Mass movement of people (including asylum seekers, refugees, migrants, internally and externally displaced persons) • Older Persons • Victims of torture • Victims of the death penalty • Victims of corporate human rights abuses • Victims of sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics discrimination • Indigenous peoples • Human rights defenders • Individual victims of human rights abuses seeking domestic redress • Individual victims of human rights abuses seeking international redress. EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO REALISE THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS: THE HEART OF WHAT WE DO To help empower isolated and vulnerable people (rights holders) to realise their rights and to assist those responsible for upholding rights (duty bearers), the APF will work in partnership with our members at the national level. Through forging strategic partnerships with our national members, the APF works to: • Provide support to address the most pressing human rights priorities at the national level • Focus attention on those who are most at risk and vulnerable of human rights violations • Promote and uphold the full range of human rights, with equal attention given to the realisation of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, and • Measure the impact of our work to ensure the realisation of human rights, particularly amongst vulnerable groups. Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions Strategic Plan 2015–2020 8