Tools for HRDs

Coded bias: Activist toolkit

Topic: Advocacy Tool: Handbooks, Manuals and Other Publications

This guide provides some basic information and tools about advocacy. Everyone from concerned citizens to tech professionals can find recommendations on ways to start a discussion, create change, and learn …

Video: Digital Security for Human Rights Defenders

Topic: Digital Security Tool: Media Content

This video provides information and ways to improve digital security of human rights defenders, with a focus on LGBT human rights defenders, by providing tips on both hardware and software …

Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations

Topic: Digital Security, Information Collection and Documentation, Information Verification and Analysis, Information Visualization and Design Tool: Handbooks, Manuals and Other Publications

The Berkeley Protocol is a teaching tool and reference guide for open source investigators. It provides guidelines on international standards for conducting online research into alleged violations and guidance on …

Advocacy Assembly Training center

Topic: Advocacy, Digital Security, Information Collection and Documentation, Information Verification and Analysis Tool: E-Learning Courses

Advocacy Assembly is a free digital learning website featuring courses for journalists and activists. The website was launched in 2015 by Small Media, who maintain the platform and its security. …

Report: Technology tools in human rights

Topic: Digital Security, Information Collection and Documentation, Information Verification and Analysis Tool: Handbooks, Manuals and Other Publications

This report is intended to detail available technologies that are designed for human rights documentation. It demonstrates various perspectives on the challenges human rights documentation initiatives face when adopting new …

E-learning courses from Protection International for Human Rights Defenders

Topic: Digital Security, Physical Security Tool: E-Learning Courses

Protection international is an international non-profit organization that supports human rights defenders in developing their security and protection management strategies. It offers a variety of publications, materials and e-learning courses …

Protection Manual for LGBTI Defenders

Topic: Digital Security, Physical Security Tool: Handbooks, Manuals and Other Publications

This manual focuses on the specific issues and obstacles that prevailing societal values and legal systems present to LGBTI defenders. It provides information on assessing risks and understanding threats and …

Toolkit “For Human Rights beyond Borders: How to Hold States Accountable for Extraterritorial Violations”

Topic: Advocacy, Information Collection and Documentation, Information Verification and Analysis Tool: Online Toolkits

This Toolkit contains three practical tools that can support civil society and social movements in the documentation, analysis, and advocacy around concrete cases of human rights violations involving foreign actors. …