Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef) has launched a COP31 Legal Protection Center to help climate activists, environmental defenders and civil society representatives prepare for COP31 in Türkiye. As part of this initiative, Open Briefing has co-authored a Holistic Security guide with CliDef, offering practical guidance on physical and digital security and wellbeing before, during and after the conference.
In the latest edition of our quarterly newsletter, The Briefing, we explore holistic security in a changing risk landscape – from our work in Cameroon and Indonesia to evolving digital risks in the United States.
As the digital risk landscape shifts rapidly in the US, our associate director for digital risk and resilience, US programming, Lena Weber reflects on what this means for activists and civil society organisations – and how a practical, holistic approach can help them understand and navigate changing risks.
Green Development Advocates is a Cameroonian civil society organisation working alongside communities affected by extractive and large-scale agro-industrial projects. Since 2025, Open Briefing has supported GDA to strengthen its approach to holistic security.
We are looking for an experienced executive personal assistant to provide high-level support to Open Briefing’s senior leadership team, helping them stay organised, focused, and connected as we deliver our ambitious new strategy.
To mark Open Briefing's 15th anniversary, we've created a new film featuring reflections from partners and team members around the world. Together, they explore how our work has evolved over the past 15 years and the thinking behind our new strategy for regenerative protection.
The pressures facing environmental defenders are changing - and so too are the kinds of support they need. Drawing on reflections from the 2026 ELAW Annual Meeting, this article explores why digital security, wellbeing, and collective care are increasingly recognised as essential to sustaining environmental justice movements.
To mark the beginning of Open Briefing's 15th anniversary year, we brought together practitioners from across civil society for a panel discussion exploring how protection is evolving. Drawing on the conversation, this article examines why protection is shifting beyond responding to immediate threats towards sustaining the people, organisations and movements leading change under pressure.
