Tools for
New on this site
- “Promoting EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders” Case studies: DRC and India - Congo, Democratic Republic of, India
1 October | Front Line Defenders - Nepal : 258 dark days - Nepal
1 October | Protection International (former PBI BEO) - Human Rights Defenders in the State of Guerrero - Mexico
1 July | PBI Mexico Project - Front Line Handbook for Human Rights Defenders: What protection can EU and Norwegian Diplomatic Missions offer?*
27 June | Front Line Defenders - The manual
28 May |
Human rights defenders and their security
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.
EPIC publishes an e-mail and online newsletter on civil liberties in the information age – the EPIC Alert. Tjey also publish reports and even books about privacy, open government, free speech, and other important topics related to civil liberties.
www.hrni.org is a collection of the most important international documents related to human rights: instruments, case law, articles, bibliographic references, Internet sites, reports and human rights actors.
On the website you will find, classified by theme, full texts of judgments and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and of the UN Human Rights Committee, as well as international and regional conventions on human rights, reports of the United Nations or non-governmental organizations, scholarly articles, bibliographic references, and a portal of Internet sites on human rights and a list of actors (NGOs, universities, international organizations) playing a role in this field.
Consolidating the Profession: The Human Rights Field Officer
is a research, training and capacity-building project in support of enhanced delivery of services by human rights field operations. The project is informed by an overarching consideration that the Human Rights Field Officer (HRFO) is deployed to develop and enhance local human rights capacities and protection. It is convened and facilitated from within the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC).
On this website (formerly hosted on Prot.info) you will find several tools on protection for people affected by violations of human rights law, international humanitarian law, refugee law.
The International News Safety Institute is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the safety of journalists and media staff and committed to fighting the persecution of journalists everywhere. The Institute is a coalition of media organisations, press freedom groups, unions and humanitarian campaigners working to create a culture of safety in media in all corners of the world.
In 1990, in response to a growing number of privacy threats, more than a hundred leading privacy experts and Human Rights organizations from forty countries linked arms to form a world organization for the protection of privacy. Members of the new body, including computer professionals, academics, lawyers, journalists, jurists and human rights activists, had a common interest in promoting an international understanding of the importance of privacy and data protection. Meetings of the group, which took the name Privacy International, were held throughout that year in North America, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific, and members agreed to work toward the establishment of effective privacy protection throughout the world. The formation of Privacy International is the first successful attempt to establish a structured world focus on this crucial area of human rights.
Privaterra’s mission is to provide technological education and support for civil society organizations (Human Rights NGOs) in the area of data privacy, secure communications and information security
In order to respond to the marginalisation suffered by many of the country’s Human Rights Defenders, Protection Desk Nepal is developing thematic areas of work giving specific trainings to victims, women human rights defenders, young human rights defenders, defenders working on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights and the Bhutanese refugees. PD-N has plans to develop specific trainings for associations of the internally displaced and defenders working on illegal trafficking of human beings.
Country analysis is an important part of protection work, and the starting point for building an effective protection strategy.
Gathering already existing information on violations, identifying which law applies, and analysing the political stakeholders are perhaps the most important parts of a country analysis. However this is not enough: it is
also important to examine the economics and geography, social and development indicators, history and culture, to understand possible sources of risk and vulnerability which may directly or indirectly affect your beneficiary populations.
But where can we get the reliable information we need, quickly and easily,without spending days surfing the web? Especially when our internet connections are maddeningly slow...
This site contains some key resources on a special web page to help you build a comprehensive and multi-dimensional country analysis. They should help you to quickly gather the facts and figures you need. You will even find some fantastic places to get your maps! Each link on this page will allow you to access country-specific pages
The Scholars at Risk program connects Harvard to an international network of universities and colleges—the Scholars at Risk network—that defends the human rights of persecuted scholars worldwide by arranging temporary positions for them in universities around the world. Since we launched the program in 2001, the Scholars at Risk Committee, with the support of the President, has provided a fellowship for at least one scholar per year to come to Harvard. The scholar is selected by an interdisciplinary faculty committee that reviews nominations solicited from throughout the university community. Each scholar is hosted as a visiting fellow in the appropriate academic department.
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