PROTECTION INTERNATIONAL

 

Protection International is an international, non-profit organisation that brings protection strategies and security management tools to human rights defenders at risk. Since 2004, Protection International has been working with local partners in over thirty countries throughout the world.Protection International envisions a world where human rights and fundamental freedoms are universally recognized and respected, and where everyone has the right to defend these rights and freedoms without fear of threats or attack.

 

Our mission is to support human rights defenders through comprehensive protection programmes. Our programmes help defenders build their capacities in order to manage their protection effectively, to allow those that protect them fulfil their obligations, and to convince other individuals and institutions with a stake in the protection of human rights defenders to maximise their positive contribution. Protection International always works in partnership with defenders.

 

Protection International is also a member of the Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN), an informal grouping of NGOs operating at the EU-level in the broader areas of human rights, democracy and conflict prevention. HRDN’s vision is that human rights and democracy are placed at the heart of the EU’s internal and external policy agenda. This vision should manifest itself in an EU which effectively protects human rights at home and is a force for positive change in the world.

 

In pursuit of this vision, the network aims to influence EU and EU Member States’ human rights policies and the programming of their funding instruments in order to promote democracy, human rights and sustainable peace.

 

For more information on HRDN visit their website by clicking on their logo below or contact the Troika.

 

Protection International, both under its present legal status, and under the previous one (European Office of peace brigades international), has participated in key initiatives on support to Human Rights Defenders, such as in the Definition of the EU Guidelines and Local implementation strategies, co-editing of the Diplomatic Tool Box (NL 2004), co-initiating Parliament resolutions for HRDs in Belgium (2003) and Spain (2007), being the authors of the New Protection Manual for HRDs, the LGBTI Defenders Protection Manual, and the Manual for protection of communities in remote areas, and the Study on national policies for HRD protection.Under Legal Entity File LIF No. 6000126839, from 2008-11 PI’s Global Protection Program for Human Rights Defenders was one of 11 selected pilot projects, funded under EIDHR Objective 3 HRD support, by providing capacity building on security management and risk assessment to more then 3.000 HRDs in 19 countries and advising all stakeholders on how to better contributing to HRD protection