This thesis explores how Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) in Iraq, Serbia, and Sweden experience and respond to contextual repression across distinct legal, political and cultural landscapes. Drawing on 13 semi-structured interviews and a feminist analytical framework, including Contextual Feminism, Emotional Labour & Activism, and Institutional Betrayal, the study examines how systemic threats such as gender-based violence, legal harassment, and societal stigma intersect with institutional neglect and nationalist backlash to constrain feminist activism. In response to these pressures, WHRDs sustain their advocacy through adaptive strategies, grassroots solidarity, and emotional resilience. Their approaches, shaped by context, identity, and lived experience, demonstrate agency, creativity, and determination in navigating complex and often hostile environments. The study concludes that international and domestic protection frameworks often fail to reflect the realities of WHRDs’ work and calls for more intersectional, context-sensitive approaches to supporting feminist human rights activism. This research contributes to feminist and human rights scholarship by offering a grounded, comparative account of repression and resistance.