Criminalisation of human rights defenders: Categorisation of the problem and measures in response
Criminalisation of Human Rights Defenders – Categorisation of the problem and measures in response aims to provide responses to protection challenges for criminalised HRDs, civil society organisations and rural communities. To this end, the report illustrates the interplay among legal instruments, socio-political contexts, practices by state authorities and non-state actors, which altogether ultimately contribute to […]
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 […]
FOCUS Report 2013: “Public Policies for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: The State of the Art”
Protection International (PI) is pleased to present its FOCUS Report 2013. This first FOCUS Report is part of a global observatory on public policies for human rights defenders’ protection. This publication is intended to provide detailed monitoring of developments in the field of national public policy associated with the protection of human rights defenders around […]
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.
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 […]
Protection Manual for LGBTI Defenders: 2nd Edition (2010)
Protection International has been working in the protection of human rights defenders for some years. To date our work has focused mainly on mainstream human rights defenders working in situations of open conflicts. In conversations with various defenders working on LGBTI rights it became evident that we needed to expand our focus and our work […]
Protection against the threats of the 21st century (2009)
One of the challenges we deal with is how to prevent attacks against defenders in rural and semi-rural communities. At the time of publication, existing protection models mainly focused on urban areas. Through the seminar ”Protegiéndonos ante las amenazas del siglo XXI y su sistematización” the publication produced by PI’s Aj Noj Protection Desk aims to develop a […]
[Spanish] Criminalization against Human Rights Defenders: Reflection about protection mechanisms
The criminalization does not allow us to face the origin and the nature of the conflict and it has become a daily fact for peoples from Latin America. Instead of develop actions and policies in order to face the social problems, it has been usual to see how it is started political persecution, when every […]
[Spanish] Guide for human rigths defenders against the criminalisation
This “Guide for human rigths defenders against the criminalisation” 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 human rigths defenders against the criminalisation. […]