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Surveillance Self-Defense is the Electronic Frontier Foundation's guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
This handbook is intended to give HRDs practical advice on how to deal with the threats, intimidation and attacks, which they may have to deal with in their work as human rights defenders.
هدف اصلى اين خوداموز فراهم اوردن و يا افزودن بر درک مدافعان حقوق بشر از امنيت و اشناسازى انها با برخى ابزارهايى است كه ممكن است در فرايند تامين امنیت و حفاظت كاربرد داشته باشد. اميد می رود كه اين خوداموز به ترويح اموزشهاى امنيتى و حفاظتى يارى رسانده و به مدافعان كمک كند كه امكان شناسايی و براورد میزان و نوع تهديدها و تعريف قواعد و راهكارهای امنيتى متناسب با شرايط خاص خود را دارا شوند
“THE EU’S OBJECTIVE IS TO INFLUENCE THIRD COUNTRIES TO CARRY OUT THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO
RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS.”
(EUROPEAN UNION GUIDELINES ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS)
As the 2016 Annual Report documents, at least 156 human rights defenders were killed or died in detention in 2015. More than half of those killings, 87, took place in Latin America, with Colombia alone accounting for 54 killings. Outside the Americas one of the starkest figures was the total of 31 targeted killings of HRDs in the Philippines.
Many companies now realise that wherever they operate, their ultimate licence to operate comes not only from legal agreements with governments, but also from their acceptance by workers, consumers, and the communities that surround them or are impacted by them. It does not mean that every company has got it right; nor does it mean it is always the fault of companies. In many instances, governments keen to build infrastructure, attract investment, or develop the economy are willing to disregard the views of communities, the rights of workers, or of consumers.
In April 2015 Front Line Defenders and Verso Books published La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico- the first book in a series of nonfiction graphic novels. La Lucha features the real life stories of women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in northern Mexico who confront lethal challenges in order to promote human rights, justice and accountability.
The Front Line Defenders 2015 Annual Report, Human Rights Defenders, Lives in the Balance, examines in detail the deteriorating situation for human rights defenders (HRDs) around the world, in the period January – December 2014.