Outputs

UNESCO Chair Publications

  • Africa Hub 2023 Report

    The vision of the Africa Human Rights Hub is to support African universities to play a significant role in protecting emancipatory human rights, focusing on how universities can support ‘protection’, both externally and internally.

    Read more in their first report.

    Africa Hub 2023 Report

  • Short Term Action Plan for Universities as Sites of Protection (April 2023 - March 2025)

    This document sets out the Action Plan for the first two years of the UNESCO Chair addressing the role of universities in the ‘Protection of HRDs, and Expansion of Political Space’.

    Action Plan

  • Universities as Sites of Activism and Protection

    Working Paper No.1

    This Working Paper seeks to identify and support good university practices in support of activism and protection, of people, ideas/values, and different kinds of knowledge

    Working Paper No.1

  • Activism in the Face of Repression: UK Universities as Allies for Hong Kong Activist Students and Academics

    Working Paper No.2

    This study sets out to examine what role, if any, universities have in providing support to social and political activism in Hong Kong in the context of shrinking civic space due to oppression from China.

    Working Paper No.2

  • Conceptualising Protection: Universities as Sites of Protection

    Policy Brief No.1

    This Policy Brief draws on a research project that seeks to reunite universities with their third mission – after teaching and research – to address social, economic, and cultural challenges in society, through the lens of a particular concept: protection.

    Policy Brief No.1

  • Universities as Sites of Activism and Protection

    Policy Brief No.2

    These are challenging times for universities. Despite the significant hurdles they face, this Policy Brief champions an enhanced role for universities as sites of activism and protection in the current era of crisis.

    Policy Brief No.2

Human Rights Defender Hub Publications

  • Protecting Human Rights, Humanitarian and Development Actors

    Working Paper No.1

  • Integrating a Psychosocial Perspective into Human Rights and Protection Practices: A Case Study of Peace Brigades International (PBI) Mexico

    Working Paper No.2

  • Exploring the Term ‘Human Rights Defender’ through the Lens of Professionalisation in Human Rights Practice: A Case-Study of Russia

    Working Paper No.3

  • Defenders Across Borders: Congolese Human Rights Defenders in Uganda’s Refugee Regime

    Working Paper No.4

  • ‘Making’ the Territory: The Spatial Politics of Peasant CommunitiesNew List Item

    Working Paper No.5

  • The Capacity Building of Human Rights Defenders and (Dis)Empowerment: An Analysis of Current Practice

    Working Paper No.6

  • The Effectiveness of Individual Casework on Human Rights Defenders: An Empirical Study of the UN Special Procedure Cases 2004–2015

    Working Paper No.7

  • Pushing Back: Supporting Human Rights Defenders and Social Movements in Contexts of Shrinking Civic and Democratic Space

    Working Paper No.8

  • Human Rights Leadership: Towards a Research and Practice Agenda for Challenging Times

    Working Paper No.9

  • Artists as Defenders: Disability Art As Means to Mobilise Human Rights

    Working Paper No.10

  • Collective Protection Networks for Remote Rural Communities: A Case Study of the Role of Social Networks in Protecting Rural Communities in Latin America

    Working Paper No.11

  • Promoting Wellbeing, Mental Health and Self-Care for Women Human Rights Defenders in Kenya

    Working Paper No.12

  • In Search of Protection, Justice and the Truth: Journalists’ Responses to Impunity in Mexico and Honduras

    Working Paper No.13

  • En Busca de Protección, Justicia y Verdad: Respuestas de Periodistas Ante la Impunidad en México y Honduras

    Documento de Trabajo No.13

  • The Barcelona Guidelines on Wellbeing and Temporary International Relocation of Human Rights Defenders at Risk

    The Barcelona Guidelines are based on research findings from the Wellbeing of Defenders project and discussions between coordinators, wellbeing service providers, and researchers from around the world at an international retreat in Barcelona in June 2019 (hence the name, The Barcelona Guidelines).

    The Guidelines are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and Russian.

  • Wellbeing During Temporary International Relocation: Case Studies and Good Practices for the Implementation of the 2019 Barcelona Guidelines

    This report by Patricia Bartely, published by the Martin Roth Initiative, highlights research findings from a project conducted by Hub staff Martin Jones, Alice Nah and Patricia Bartley that maps the growing practice of temporary international relocation initiatives globally, and the complexities and challenges of running such programmes.

    Available here

  • On the Human Rights Frontline: How the UK Government Can Defend the Defenders

    Human rights defenders continue to face arrest, and experience attacks, threats and repression during the Covid-19 pandemic and yet a report by Dr Piergiuseppe Parisi from the Hub and Amnesty International UK found 94 per cent of human rights defenders interviewed received little support from the UK government in response to attacks.

    Available here

  • 20 Years On: Reinvigorating State Implementation of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders through a Global Network

    The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) commissioned the Hub to undertake a study on how a Network could meaningfully contribute to the implementation of the Human Rights Defender Declaration in diverse national contexts. The findings are presented in this report on the Desirability and Feasibility of a Global Network of ‘Human Rights Defenders Focal Points’

    Available here

  • Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk

    Dr Alice Nah’s edited book Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk draws on the experiences of 407 human rights defenders from Indonesia, Egypt, Kenya, Mexico and Colombia. It assesses the construction, operation and effects of the international protection regime for human rights defenders and proposes ways in which the protection of human rights defenders at risk should be reimagined and practised.

    More information here