• New Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders (3rd Edition)
  Enrique Eguren , Marie Caraj [PDF -3 Mb]
  
  

Protection International Publications

• Protection Manual For LGBTI Defenders – 2nd Edition
  Enrique Eguren , Protection International , Shaun Kirven , Marie Caraj [PDF -1.9 Mb]
  
  

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Human rights defenders and their security

• The protection of human rights defenders
  Asian Human Rights Commission [PDF -354.8 kb]
  
  
• Taking Action on Violence Against Women in the Afghan context ; Training Manual
  Medica Mondiale [PDF -2.6 Mb]
  
  
• Front Line Handbook for Human Rights Defenders: What protection can EU and Norwegian Diplomatic Missions offer?*
  Front Line [PDF -371.4 kb]
  
  
• Away from prying eyes: Protecting your information from unauthorised access
  CIVICUS
  
  
• Digital Security for Activists : Roots of (in)security: Protecting your computer
  CIVICUS - See online
  
  

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International and regional declarations and tools for human rights defenders

• Human Rights Council: Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review - Democratic Republic of Congo (2009)
  United Nations Human Rights Council [PDF -126.3 kb]
  
  
• UN Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
  Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [PDF -30.6 kb]
  
  
• Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society
  United Nations [PDF -1.2 Mb]
  
  
• United Nations HRs Committee document about the UN declaration on defenders (17/11/2009)
  United Nations [PDF -41 kb]
  
  
• African Commission on LGBTI: Resolution to end all forms of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Africa
  African Comission on Human and Peoples’ Rights [PDF -1.2 Mb]
  
  

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Displacement and human rights defenders

• UNHCR’s 2008 ANNUAL REPORT Global Trends
  IRIN [PDF -3 Mb]
  
  
• Striving for better days: Improving the lives of internally displaced people in Colombia
  Refugees International [PDF -1.1 Mb]
  
  
• Resisting displacement by combatants and developers: Humanitarian Zones in north-west Colombia
  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre [PDF -826.8 kb]
  
  
• Security, Displacement and Iraq: A Deadly Combination
  The Brookings Institution - University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement , Elizabeth Ferris [PDF -122.3 kb]
  
  
• Multiple patterns of internal displacement affect several ethnic and religious groups
  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre [PDF -193.5 kb]
  
  

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Journalists and human rights defenders

• BIA 2009 Annual Media Monitoring Report: Getting Rid of Freedom of Thought...
  Bianet.org
  
  
• BIA Media Monitoring Report Third Quarter 2009
  Bianet.org
  
  
• BIA Media Monitoring Report For The Third Quarter of 2008
  Bianet.org [PDF -224.8 kb]
  
  
• Somalia: Journalists Under Attack
  Amnesty International [PDF -221.9 kb]
  
  
• 2008 Annual Report
  Reporters Without Borders [PDF -3.3 Mb]
  
  

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Members of Parliament and defenders

• Recommendations to the UK government and MPs on Colombian HRDs
  ABColombia , Campaign Colombia HRDS under threat [PDF -330.4 kb]
  
  
• Non-legislative motion about the protection of the Human Rights Defenders
  Spanish Congress
  
  
• Human Rights: Handbook For Parliamentarians
  Inter-Parliamentary Union [PDF -1.2 Mb]
  
  
• Motion on the protection of human rights defenders under threat
  German Bundestag [Word -41 kb] [PDF -19.9 kb]
  
  
• Resolution on the protection of Human Rights Defenders
  Belgian Senat
  
  

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Diplomats and human rights defenders

• “Promoting EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders” Case studies: DRC and India
  Front Line [PDF -280.8 kb]
  
  
• Restriction of Movement of Human Rights Defenders in the Occupied Palestine Territory (OPT)
  [PDF -107 kb]
  
  
• Ensuring protection? The European Union and human rights defenders
  Amnesty International [PDF -270.3 kb]
  
  
• EU Council Conclusions on implementation of EU policy on human rights and democratisation in third countries
  Council of the European Union - See online
  
  
• PBI submission to the Austrian EU presidency for the evaluation of the implementation of the EU Guidelines on HR defenders
  PBI Colombia Project , Protection International [Word -83.5 kb] [PDF -32.9 kb]
  
  

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Trade unions and human rights defenders

• Report on human rights violations No 21: “Death Isn’t Mute” Report on human rights violations againts trade unionists in Colombia during 2008 and impunity of violations in the period 1986-2009
  ENS (Escuela Nacional Sindical) , Comisión Colombiana de Juristas [PDF -1.1 Mb]
  
  
• Internationally Recognised Core Labour Standards in Guatemala
  International Trade Union Confederation [PDF -188 kb]
  
  
• Annual Survey of violations of trade union rights 2007
  International Trade Union Confederation - See online
  
  
• Colombia: Killings, arbitrary detentions, and death threats - the reality of trade unionism in Colombia
  Amnesty International
  
  
• Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights violations 2006
  International Trade Union Confederation - See online
  
  

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Reports on human rights defenders

• REPORT of the Special Rapporteur, Margaret Sekaggya, on the situation of human rights defenders 2009 – Addendum: Summary of cases transmitted to Governments and replies received
  United Nations Human Rights Council [PDF -1.4 Mb]
  
  
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya: Mission to the DR Congo (21 May – 3 June 2009)
  United Nations Human Rights Council [PDF -200.4 kb]
  
  
• Summary of Amnesty International’s Concerns in Turkey - July to December 2009
  Amnesty International [PDF -293.7 kb]
  
  
• REPORT of the Special Rapporteur, Margaret Sekaggya, on the situation of human rights defenders in Colombia (7-18 Septembre 2009)
  United Nations Human Rights Council [PDF -130.6 kb]
  
  
• Front Line: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review of RD Congo (2009)
  Front Line [PDF -171.8 kb]
  
  

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Various

• REPORT by ADVOCACY FORUM NEPAL Maina Sunuwar: Separating Fact from Fiction
  Advocacy Forum [PDF -339.6 kb]
  
  
• LGBT communication manual
  ABGLT [PDF -1.7 Mb]
  
  
• EHAHRDP NEWSLETTER Defenders in Focus: July-December 2009
  East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project [PDF -724.8 kb]
  
  
• EMHRN Report 2009: Freedom of Association in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
  EMHRN
  
  
• MONUC Observation Report on the Maheshe trial
  MONUC , UNHR [PDF -329.8 kb]
  
  

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