FreedomLab’s Tool Library compiles all online tools and resources that can be relevant for human rights defenders, spanning a wide variety of topics. Use the filters below to find relevant resources - tools can be filtered by Topic, Type, and Target Group. Please note that tools included in this library do not belong to FreedomLab and, whilst the Library is regularly updated and maintained by the FreedomLab team, users should be aware of the risks that arise by clicking on external links. If you know of a tool that could be added to this library, fill out this form.
Toolkit for Civil Society Organizations: Advocacy in Restricted Spaces
This toolkit aims to provide a “menu of options” of various tactics that can be used in a difficult or restrictive contexts. This guide includes inspiring case studies and concrete examples of...
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Handbooks, Manuals and other publications
Online Toolkits
Topics
Advocacy
Digital Security
Physical Security
Guide to Secure Group Chat and Conferencing Tools
This guide created by Front Line Defenders provides a simple overview of tools and platforms to choose from while working remotely. It sets the criteria for selecting tools and platforms that ensure...
Tool
Online Toolkits
Topics
Digital Security
Guide: Living with worry and anxiety amidst global uncertainty
This guide is intended to help readers to manage their worry and anxiety during the current fast-changing environment. It provides a number of practical exercises to follow to maintain well-being...
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Handbooks, Manuals and other publications
Topics
Well-being
The Defender’s Protocol
The Holistic Security Protocol for Human Rights Defenders (the Defender’s Protocol) is a tool to advance physical safety, digital security, well-being and resilience of human rights defenders...
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Online Toolkits
Topics
Digital Security
Physical Security
Well-being
Gendering Documentation. A Manual For and About Women Human Rights Defenders
A manual for women human rights defenders (WHRDs) provides a unique tool for capturing the specific nature of violations against WHRDs. The discussions that follow are grounded in a gender analysis...
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Handbooks, Manuals and other publications
Topics
Advocacy
Data collection and documentation
Digital Security
Reprisals guidelines for participants of the UPR
Safety of the human rights defenders is a priority for the UPR. The purpose of this handbook is to share information to make sure that human rights defenders will understand the risks they could face...
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Handbooks, Manuals and other publications
Topics
Physical Security
Human Rights Tools for a Changing World: A step-by-step guide to human rights fact-finding, documentation and advocacy
The purpose of this manual is to provide practical tools and step-by-step guidance for individuals and community groups who want to use human rights monitoring, documentation, and advocacy in their...
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Handbooks, Manuals and other publications
Topics
Advocacy
Information Collection and Documentation
Information Verification and Analysis
Online IQ
Online IQ is online video guides on how to increase your digital security and to secure your smartphone and apps, such as Facebook, Google, WhatsApp and Signal.
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Media Content
Topics
Digital Security
Secure communication