Open Briefing builds protection and care with people and movements leading change under pressure.
We are living through an era of converging crises. Across the world, the space to organise, advocate, and act is shrinking. None of this is accidental. Behind these challenges are people and systems with power and intent.
But systems do not change themselves – people change them. Every advance in rights, justice, and accountability was carried by those who organised, persisted, and refused to stop. The question is never whether change is possible. It is whether the people driving it can endure long enough to see it through.
This is the space we work in.
Our holistic security support strengthens physical safety, digital resilience, and collective wellbeing so people and movements leading change under pressure can continue their work with agency and confidence.
Since 2011, we have supported thousands of defenders, organisations, and movements around the world. In the last year alone, we worked in 68 countries, with more than three-quarters of our cases coming from the global majority.
We are increasingly recognised by defenders, intermediaries, and funders as vital movement infrastructure: trusted backbone support that helps people and movements continue when pressure, threat, or burnout would otherwise stop their work entirely.
Our approach is relational, practical, and grounded. Those closest to the risks hold the deepest knowledge of what is needed. Our role is to listen, build trust, share power, and help create the conditions for people and movements to continue their work.
We call this regenerative protection. It shifts protection from a defensive response to a foundation for courage, renewal, and agency. Reducing harm is not enough. Protection must also renew the people, relationships, and systems that make collective action possible.
We work directly with defenders and movements across the world. We also help nonprofits and foundations navigate complex risk, and strengthen the people, relationships, and partnerships that make change possible.
There is no change without changemakers. No truth without truth-tellers. No rights without rights defenders. We exist so they can continue.
