We have long used the term human rights defender. Perhaps I'll take a minute to explain how we differentiate that from the term prisoners of conscience.
When we talk about a human rights defender, we're referring to people or groups that peacefully—the key word is peacefully—promote and protect human rights. We prefer this broader definition because it focuses very much on the role and the activities of the individual, as opposed to prisoners of conscience, which can be a subset of human rights defenders. That term focuses more on their custodial situation than on what they are doing and what they are advocating for.
I would say the term human rights—