This manual contains best practices and mechanisms for coping with actions aimed at criminalising human rights defenders (HRDs), their organizations and communities. This guide is available in Spanish.

UDEFEGUA, through the Aj Noj Protection Desk Program and in partnership with Protection Intentional, is pleased to introduce the “Guide for Human Rights Defenders on Criminalization”. This Guide is the result of the “Criminalización en contra de Defensores y Defensoras de Derechos Humanos” international seminar which took place in November 2009.