WUNRN
FEATURED
DIALOGUE: Being Well and Staying Safe: Resources for Human Rights Defenders
Join
New Tactics, Jane Barry and other practitioners for an online dialogue on Being
Well and Staying Safe: Resources for human rights defenders from June 22
to 28, 2011.
Human rights work is a powerful and fulfilling vocation. And it is
equally hugely challenging for human rights practitioners. The nature of
this work exposes defenders to distressing and threatening situations.
The need to take care of one’s self is extremely important, as is the
need to take care of, protect and support each other. Human rights
defenders cannot be well without being safe. Likewise, they cannot truly
be safe without being well.
Often, security is thought of as a stand-alone concept, rooted in the set,
militaristic concepts of war and conflict. Human rights defenders are
defining a new concept of security - one that comes from a feminist and
anti-militarist standpoint. Women in Black have defined security as
including: freedom from constant threats, economic security, political
security, environmental security, and health security. How would a new,
more integrated and holistic definition of security impact the human rights
community?
This online dialogue is an opportunity to further explore the ways in which
well-being and security are mutually inclusive for human rights defenders.
This is a space to discuss how these issues and concepts relate to
gender, identity, human rights work, budgeting and fundraising.