Open Briefing is a unique non-profit that provides human rights defenders and other civic actors at risk with mentoring, capacity building and multilingual resources to improve their safety and security, digital security, and wellbeing and resilience.

As a social enterprise, we also help charities, grantmakers, and social businesses understand and meet their risk management, duty of care, data protection, and safeguarding commitments to staff and local partners.

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Open Briefing prevents and responds to serious attacks on civil society and civic space around the world and works to create the conditions in which they no longer happen.

Latest news

Remote consultancy opportunity: Could you be our next digital security lead?

6 October 2021

Consultancy: Digital security stakeholder mapping, needs analysis, and best practice

24 September 2021

Seeking exceptional security consultants to join our team!

14 September 2021

Free workshops and infosheet for those supporting Afghan partners: Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout

1 September 2021

Seeking digital and information security consultants and trainers around the world

21 July 2021

We’re celebrating becoming an accredited Living Wage employer!

16 July 2021

Funded support

We provide advice, capacity building and mentoring to at-risk defenders, collectives and civil society organisations in the global south.

Resources

We build multilingual tools, apps and guides to strengthen the individual and collective safety and resilience of civil society organisations and civic actors around the world.

Engagement

We collaborate and advocate to defend civil society and protect civic space wherever it is threatened.

Consultancy

We provide bespoke consultancy, training and retained support to help charities, grantmakers and social businesses meet their duty of care, data protection and safeguarding commitments.