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Companion materials

This is a list made in 2011, so it is not the most updated list.

 

Facilitators and others should consider reading this manual in conjunction with several other key documents:

Political and thematic context:

Insiste, Persiste, Resiste, Existe: Women Human Rights Defenders Security Strategies;1

What’s the Point of Revolution if We Can’t Dance?;2

Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders – this offers an excellent analysis of the threats and challenges faced by women human rights defenders worldwide.3

Security background and for developing further exercises and additional training:

Front Line’s Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders;4

Self-Care and Self-Defense Manual for Feminist Activists;5

While not specific to human rights defenders, Operational Security Management in Violent Environments is a comprehensive manual for organisations working in conflicts and crises, with many detailed checklists and balanced guidance on developing protection strategies.6

Addition, relevant manuals include:

New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners;7

Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women;8

Living in Wellness – Trauma Healing. A Capacitar Manual of Body Mind Spirit Practices for Stress, Trauma and Compassion Fatigue.9

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1

Adapted from Barry, J. with Nainar, V (2008) Insiste, Persiste, Resiste, Existe: Women Human Rights Defenders Security Strategies, Front Line International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation and the Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, Boulder, CO, pp. 87–88.

2

Barry, J. with J. Djordjevic (2008) What's the Point of Revolution if We Can't Dance?, Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, Boulder, CO.

3

Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) (2007) Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders, APWLD, Chiangmai.
http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org/pdf2007/book3NeoWithCover....

4

Front Line: International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and E. Eguren (2005) Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders, Front Line, Blackrock, County Dublin, and Peace Brigades International—European Office, Brussels.

5

Bernal, M. (2008) Self-Care and Self-Defense Manual for Feminist Activists, Artemisa, Grupo Interdisciplinario en Género, Sexualidad, Juventud y Derechos Humanos and Elige, Red de Jóvenes por Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos, A.C. English edition of the manual translated by Sharmila Bhushan and printed by CREA
http://www.creaworld.org

6

Van Brabant, K. (2000) Operational Security Management in Violent Environments, Good Practice Review No. 8, Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN), Overseas Development Institute, London.
http://www.odihpn.org/report.asp?id=2108

7

The Center for Victims of Torture (2004) New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners, The New Tactics in Human Rights Project, A project of the Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, MN.
http://www.campusactivism.org/displayresource-721.htm

8

Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace (2001) Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women, Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP), Bethesda, MD.
http://www.learningpartnership.org/ltc

9

Cane, P.M. (2005) Living in Wellness – Trauma Healing. A Capacitar Manual of Body Mind Spirit Practices for Stress, Trauma and Compassion Fatigue, Capacitar International Inc., Santa Cruz, CA.