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Three Tools for the Evaluability of Public Policies for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
Framed by the research that is carried out in different countries, Protection International has been designing conceptual and practical tools to better monitor, analyse and promote best practices for...
Redifining the Risk Approach
Designing and implementing a human rights defender-centric approach to protection
We are proud to publish “Redefining the Risk Approach”, a publication about the Risk Analysis and Protection Plan Principles, otherwise known as the "Risk Approach Recommendations".
The...
National Human Rights Institutions and the protection of Women and Men Human Rights Defenders (W/HRDs): Insights from Thailand and Indonesia
National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) that comply with the Paris Principles are in a unique position to guide and advice Governments on their human...
CEDAW Progress Report Card: WHRDs reporting on Thailand’s compliance with the 2017 Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Convention to eliminate all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
The Convention to eliminate all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) provides...
The risks of defenders of the right to land and territory in the post-peace agreement scenario in Colombia - a view from the region is a joint publication by Protection International and Pensamiento y Acción Social (PAS) that throws light on the reality for land rights defenders in a post-peace...
Collective Protection of Human Rights Defenders | A collective approach to the right to defend human rights aims to contribute to a shift in current prevailing narratives on the protection of human rights defenders. In a context where much attention is currently focused on the indispensable work...
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, Protection International (PI) today launches the fourth publication of its Criminalisation Series, Stigmatisation and Criminalisation of Human Rights Defenders in Guatemala in the context of mega-...
Collective protection of defenders of rights to land and territory in Colombia: indigenous communities as collective actors. The ACIN case is a joint publication by Protection International and Pensamiento y Acción Social (PAS) that tries to understand and analyse the collective ways in which the...
11/07/2018 - Protection International (PI) launches its report on the criminalisation of la Lucha, a citizen movement for the defence of human rights, exposing the characteristics and impacts of this criminalisation on the members of the movement and on their communities and social networks, in the...
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, Protection International and the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) of the University of York hosted an international roundtable in Brussels on 12 and 13 December 2017, entitled “Rethinking the protection of Human...
Protection International and the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) present their new publication: The Time is Now | Effective public policies for the right to defend human rights.
In view of the high number of attacks against human rights defenders in the Americas (and the rest of...
Protection International (PI) launches the second edition of a new publication series on criminalisation, Criminalisation of rural-based human rights defenders in Kenya – Impact and counterstrategies, which analyses the criminalization of human rights defenders in Kenya in its multiple forms, the...
