Focus Report 2014

Focus Report 2014

This 2014 Focus Report is intended to provide detailed monitoring of developments in the field of national public policy associated with the protection of human rights defenders around the world. The publication is available in English. Since 2008, under its FOCUS Global Observatory, Protection International (PI) has specialised in researching, systematising and disseminating good practice […]

Protection Journal #4: Protecting your life, my life, our lives

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 dedicated to the defenders. […]

Protection Journals (2011-2014 Series)

Protection Journal # 1: La experiencia del Comité Pro Seguridad y Desarrollo de Santiago Atitlan (Available in Spanish, click on the image below to download) This Protection Journal tells the story of the municipality of Santiago Atitilán during the internal armed conflict and the events that led to the creation of the Committee. In January […]

2014 Annual Report: What is Protection?

In 2014, Protection International decided to look back at its work through the lens of a question: what is protection? Throughout our journey we have learned that there is no simple answer to this question. Rather, than an HRD’s protection is like a puzzle: something that requires skills and persistence in solving. This report looks […]

Guide for Facilitators (2013)

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. The Guide contains practical advice to structure and prepare workshop sessions along the pathway set out in PI’s New Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders.

Annual Report 2013

In 2013, Protection International (PI) continued to support the work of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) across the world and help make their environments safer. The following Annual Report gives concrete examples of PI’s work throughout the world in 2013, but specifically focused on capacity building, research projects, working with duty bearers on the development of national public policies protecting HRDs and ensuring the implementation of existing protection policies for […]

2011 – 2012 Annual Report

In 2011 and 2012, Protection International made considerable progress in the core areas of its global protection programme. From helping defenders where they’re most at risk in more than twenty countries, to developing innovative security management tools, we consistently investigate new ways to enhance protection of human rights defenders, all the while involving the right stakeholders in […]

Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Best Practices and lessons learnt

In recent years several governments have developed specific national mechanisms to protect defenders, all of them in countries seriously lacking in protection for human rights defenders. These mechanisms (laws, action policies, offices) have been established under pressure from (and with the cooperation of) national and international human rights organisations, with essential legal support from the […]