Human Rights Defenders

It's time for us all to stand up for human rights – ours and the rights of others.  Defending human rights is not always an easy, or a popular, thing to do.  It could entail significant risks.  Learn more about being a human rights defender.  If you don't defend human rights, who will?

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Yvonne Vissing Yvonne Vissing Author

Yvonne Vissing, PhD, is a professor, author, consultant, and researcher. She has over 25 years experience working with organizations and helping them to do a better job serving their clients, their workers, and the community.

Equitas Human Rights Defenders

Amnesty Human Rights Defenders

Here are tool kits by Amnesty available for anyone to use who wants to be a human rights defender.
Equitas Human Rights Defenders Information

Equitas has made the following information available to help people to become human rights defenders.
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Defender Curriculum

The Robert F. Kennedy institute for human rights has created a curriculum that overviews the lives of many human rights defenders. Their stories both educate and inspire students to defend rights of others.