Front Line, the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has published a guide that provides practical guidance for human rights activists to survive threats and risk to their lives while carrying out their work.
The “Strategies for Survival: Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Columbia, Indonesia and Zimbabwe” is a result of a project undertaken to gather examples of best practice in security and protection from the human rights defenders communities. In Columbia, Indonesia and Zimbabwe, human rights defenders “human rights defenders have been forced by the nature of the repression they have faced to develop creative and resilient strategies for protection. The choice of countries also reflects a diversity of political and human rights contexts.”
The guide will be useful for anti-corruption activists, women human rights defenders, minority rights activists, land rights and environmental activists, LGBTI activists, advocates for accountability for past crimes, human rights defenders in conflict areas, students and journalists. The guide alerts these activists on the types of threats they may be facing and the different kinds of protection strategies they can take up.
The guide can be downloaded from this link.
