WUNRN
New Tactics eNewsletter – July
21, 2010
FEATURED
DIALOGUE: Staying Safe: Security Resources for Human Rights Defenders – NOW
OPEN!
Join
New Tactics for this important dialogue on Staying Safe: Security Resources for Human Rights Defenders
from July 21 - 27, 2010. Human
rights defenders are often met with oppression, discrimination and violence.
Human rights work is powerful and necessary; it is important to identify
strategies and methods for protection of these defenders. This dialogue will
bring together practitioners that work with human rights defenders developing
security strategies to share important resources and tools for the human rights
community.
Note:
This dialogue is PUBLIC. Do not share any private or sensitive information. For advice on a specific situation, please contact a participant
privately.
http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/new-tactics/staying-safe-security-resources-human-rights-defenders
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THE DATES: August 25 – 31, 2010
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New Tactics and Shaazka Beyerle of the
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FEATURED
RESOURCES on Security for Human Rights Defenders: Book, Manual and Toolkit
Insiste, Resiste,
Persiste, Existe: Women’s Human Rights Defenders’ Security Strategies (Resiste) by Jane Barry and
Vahida Nainar is presented by Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights.
Resiste brings us the voices of women human
rights defenders (WHRDs) from all over the world. Each woman speaks from her
personal experience of combating violence and discrimination in complex
contexts – in situations of overt or hidden conflict, organized armed violence as
well as rising fundamentalisms in
http://www.urgentactionfund.org/index.php?id=144
New Protection Manual
for Human Rights Defenders (3rd Edition) by research
and text by Enrique Eguren Fernández and Marie Caraj presented by
Protection International
The
purpose of this new manual is to provide human rights
defenders with additional knowledge and some tools that may be useful for
improving their understanding of security and protection. It is hoped that the
manual will support training on security and protection and will help defenders
to undertake their own risk assessments and define security rules and
procedures which suit their particular situation. This manual is available in
English, Español, Français, Indonesian, Arabic, and Russian.
http://www.protectionline.org/New-Protection-Manual-for-Human.html
Security in-a-box:
Tools and tactics for your digital security
Security
in-a-box is a collaborative effort of the Tactical Technology
Collective and Front Line. It was created to meet the digital security and
privacy needs of advocates and human rights defenders. Security in-a-box
includes a How-to Booklet, which addresses a number of important digital security
issues. It also provides a collection of Hands-on Guides, each of which
includes a particular freeware or open source software tool, as well as
instructions on how you can use that tool to secure your computer, protect your
information or maintain the privacy of your Internet communication. This toolkit is available in English, Español,
Français, Russian, and Arabic.
http://security.ngoinabox.org/
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