New Manual of Security Strategies for Women Human Rights Defenders: Insist, Persist, Resist, Exist

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Author: 
Jane Barry with Vahida Nainar, Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, Front Line - The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, and The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation.

All over the world, women defend the rights of individuals and communities facing oppression, discrimination and violence. Their work is powerful, and controversial. And it often meets with bitter, and violent, opposition.

Most women human rights defenders (WHRDs) are well aware of the risks that they face. Activists know, from painful experience, the price that many pay for putting their bodies, and their families, on the line.

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New Manual of Security Strategies for Women Human Rights Defenders: Insist, Persist, Resist, Exist

HR-WPS_DefendersGuide_FL-KKF-UAFWHR_2008_0.pdf