Policy Briefs Old
Thematic Policy Briefs
These thematic and country-focused Policy Briefs explore key issues related to the security and protection of human rights defenders, providing recommendations for policy-makers and stakeholders.
Reclaiming the Positive: Countering the Stigmatisation of Human Rights Practice
This Policy Brief focuses on how and why human rights practice is being stigmatised and what stakeholders can do to strengthen its legitimacy.
Also available in Arabic, Spanish, Bahasa Indonesia and Kiswahili.
Emotional Wellbeing and Risk in Human Rights Practice (forthcoming)
This Policy Brief examines how mental and emotional wellbeing is perceived amongst human rights defenders at risk and what stakeholders can do to strengthen wellbeing in the global human rights movement.
Also available in Arabic, Spanish, Bahasa Indonesia and Kiswahili.
Country-focused Policy Briefs
These Policy Briefs focus on key issues related to the security of defenders at risk in each country in this study and what stakeholders can do to strengthen their protection.
Indonesia
Also available in Bahasa Indonesia.
Kenya (forthcoming)
Also available in Kiswahili.
Colombia (forthcoming)
Also available in Spanish.
Mexico (forthcoming)
Also available in Spanish.
Egypt (forthcoming)
Also available in Arabic.
Uprising (Upinzani)
Steve Kyenze
In art is a flower so dope
From questions that answers elope
Highlighting civic troubles we cope
To make the end full of hope.
With days captured by night
For the justice end far in sight
For the quality of life far from right
For human rights we fight.
In color we ensure
Educating our community of a cure
Of truth ever so pure
To make safe the insecure.
With brush stroke so sligh
For those who want to see the light
For those scared of the high and might
For their rights too we fight.
Mural by Steve Kyenza, (DATE), Kibera, Kenya
NYOTA ART GALLERY CREDIT THE CHILDREN?
Photography (Picha): Steve Kyenza
Poem by: Steve Kyenze, Kibera, Kenya (2017)
This mural was in response to the experiences of human rights defenders in Colombia, Mexico, Egypt, Kenya, and Indonesia through the research project ‘Navigating Risk, Managing Security, and Receiving Support’ led by Dr Alice Nah at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York.
For more information on the research project see securityofdefendersproject.org or contact security-of-defenders-project@york.ac.uk
Kwa taarifa zaidi kuhusu mradi wa utafiti kuona securityofdefendersproject.org au kuwasiliana security-of-defenders-project@york.ac.uk.