Tools for
Protection Manual
- Ad hoc deterrence strategy and tactics
- Some ad hoc strategies:
- Analysing deterrence strategy
- Dealing with risk after doing a risk assessment
- Human rights defenders working in hostile environments
- Defenders’ socio-political work space
- Security and defenders’ work space
- Expanding your work space by increasing tolerance and acceptance
- Expanding your work space: increasing deterrence and persuasion
- Putting deterrence to work
Index of Chapters
- Introduction: A security and protection manual for human rights defenders at risk
- Chapter 1.1: Making informed decisions about security and protection
- Chapter 1.2: Assessing risk: threats, vulnerabilities and capacities
- Chapter 1.3: Understanding and assessing threats
- Chapter 1.4: Security Incidents: definition and analysis
- Chapter 1.5: Preventing and reacting to attacks
- Chapter 1.6: Preparing a security strategy and plan.
- Chapter 1.7: Preparing a security plan
- Chapter 1.8: Improving security at work and at home
- Chapter 1.9: Security for woman human rights defenders
- Chapter 1.10: Security in armed conflic areas
- Chapter 1.11: Security in areas of armed conflict.
- Chapter 1.12: Security, communications and information technology
- Chapter 2.1: Assesing organisational security performance:
- Chapter 2.2: Making sure security rules and procedures are
- Chapter 2.2: Making sure security rules and procedures are followed
- Chapter 2.3: Managing organisational shift towards an improved security policy.
- Chapter 3.1: How to reduce the risks connected to an office search
- Chapter 3.2: Secure management of information
- Chapter 3.3: Detention, arrest, abduction or kidnapping
- Chapter 3.4: Security and free time
- Anexos
Chapter 1.6: Preparing a security strategy and plan.
Human rights defenders working in hostile environments
by Enrique Eguren and Marie Caraj
SendToo often, defenders work in hostile environments. There are many reasons why.
Most relate to the fact that defenders’ work may lead them to confront powerful
actors who are violating international human rights law, be they government or
state authorities, security forces, opposition armed groups or private armed
gangs. These actors may retaliate by trying to stop defenders doing their work,
through anything from subtle repression of attempts at free expression to
declared threats and direct attacks. The actors’ level of tolerance will depend on
the defenders’ work - some activities might be deemed acceptable, others not.
Often this uncertainty is also deliberate.
Two important considerations should be made here. In many cases, only certain
elements within complex actors (such as those mentioned above) are hostile
towards defenders. For example, some elements within a government may be
relatively serious about protecting defenders, while other elements may want to
attack them. Defenders may also experience more hostility during times of polit-
ical upheaval, such as elections or other political events.
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