Protection Manuals

Developed to provide human rights defenders with additional knowledge and tools useful for improving their understanding of security and protection. It is the result of over 25 years combined experience of PI’s members in working with HHRR and humanitarian law and in the protection of HRD. ...

This publication is intended to serve as a tool for people who are interested in facilitating training processes to develop protection capacities in human rights defenders (HRDs), their organisations and communities.Available in English, French and Spanish. Protection International (PI) is happy to...

Available in Spanish. Manual para prevenir la criminalización de los defensores del derecho a la tierra y el territorio 

This Journal will be dedicated to the expressions and actions performed prior or in parallel to criminalization, and also it address the criminalization purposes and its instruments.Available in Spanish. Protection International presents this Protection Journal number 5 on an issue of great concern...

This manual focuses on the work and the protection of women human rights defenders and is the fruit of reflexion and testimonies that they have shared with us over years of experience.Available in English and Spanish. The Protection Manual number 4, from the series published by UDEFEGUA and PI, is...

This journal number 3, deals with the protection measures that defenders can use in their life and their family.Available in English and Spanish. This journal number 3, produced by UDEFEGUA and Protection International contains suggestions on personal security measures for human rights defenders (...

This is about vigilance and “countervigilance”. This is a useful tool to help what we call “to be vigilant”.Available in English and Spanish. Being a person who assumes the responsibility of defending rights of others is no easy task. Unfortunately, in many cases human rights are at odds with the...

This guide - made by International Protection, Aj Noj - Protection Desk UDEFEGUA Guatemala - wants to fill the gap in the field of protection of human rights defenders. The tools and methodologies proposed respond to the needs of the defenders who live and develop their work in rural area....

  This Journal reflects the experience of the Comité pro-seguridad y desarrollo (Pro-Security and Development Committee) of Santiago Atitlán in Sololá(Guatemala).Available in Spanish. This Protection Journal tells the story of the municipality of Santiago Atitilán during the internal armed conflict...

The manual addresses key concepts linked to the legal and physical protection of community-based human rights defenders living and working in remote areas. It also raises awareness of the existence of risks associated to their work, while providing security tools and protection strategies developed...

This manual contains best practices and mechanisms for coping the processes aimed against HRDs, their organizations and communities. Available in Spanish. UDEFEGUA, through the Aj Noj Protection Desk Program and in partnership with Protection Intenational, is pleased to introduce the Guide for...

One of the challenges we are trying to deal with is how to prevent attacks against defenders in rural and semi-rural communities, developed with a methodology designed from our own experiences and other countries experience. Available in Spanish. One of the challenges we are trying to deal with is ...