Our protection manuals accumulate over 25 years of our staff’s combined experience and knowledge, as well as the best practices and lessons learned imparted to us from hundreds of human rights defenders from around the world. Most of the manuals’ contents have already been applied in practice, either through pragmatic protection work or in training workshops.
These manuals were developed to provide human rights defenders with additional knowledge and tools to improve their understanding of security and protection. We aim to translate these manuals into as many languages as possible. If you are willing to partner with us for translations, please reach out to ContactPI@protectioninternational.org
Taking Care of Us – A Guide for the Collective Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Rural Areas (2020)
English, French, Q'eqchi, Spanish
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Practical Manual on Protection for Human Rights Defenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2019)
French, Kikongo, Kiswahili, Lingala, Tshiluba
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Manual to prevent the criminalisation of defenders of the right to land and territory (2016)
Spanish
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Protection Manual for Community-based Human Rights Defenders (2013)
Thai
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Protection Manual for LGBTI Defenders: 2nd Edition (2010)
English, French, Spanish
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Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders (2009)
Arabic, English, French, Indonesian, Spanish, Swahili
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Guide for Human Rights Defenders on Combatting Criminalisation (2009)
Spanish
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