Understanding risk is an important but often misunderstood part of security planning for human rights defenders. Our safety and security team has set out four steps you can follow to better understand the risks that you face.
Category: Blog
How to protect your information and stay safe at COP28
Activists and advocates travelling to COP28 need to be aware that political rights and civil liberties are severely limited in the United Arab Emirates. But there are important steps that you can take to protect your information and remain safe before, during, and after COP28.
We’re hiring! Safety and security consultants [Closed]
Open Briefing is recruiting safety and security consultants to provide expert and tailored security and protection advice and training to grassroots organisations and activists and their international partners.
7 ways to protect your wellbeing as a human rights defender
In the face of closing civic space and increasing attacks against human rights defenders, we need to start viewing acts of personal resilience as acts of resistance! Here are seven evidence-based actions that you can take to improve your wellbeing and resilience, starting today.
Introducing our bold new strategy
We are embarking on an ambitious new strategy to transform into a global platform and meet the threat to human rights defenders head on. This strategy is based on a clear understanding of the challenge, how we can bring about transformative change, and how we can resource our plans for maximum impact. Please join us!
Why we scrapped our environmental policy
Our environmental policy - with its green and eco-friendly promises - was inadequate to the scope and scale of the climate emergency. So, we scrapped it. Instead we make three climate action commitments. We commit to being a carbon positive organisation. We commit to supporting the people and communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis. And we commit to inspiring climate action inside and outside our organisation.
How human rights defenders can use collective protection strategies
Collective protection recognises that the security of human rights defenders is interconnected with the security of those in their network, be it family, friends, colleagues, or neighbours. This main tenet is central to any collective protection strategy; however, the way that any individual strategy is developed will vary, and depend on the mission, profile, context, and needs of the particular defender and their network.
We’re hiring! Information security consultants
Open Briefing is recruiting information security consultants to help to secure the most-valuable and -sensitive information of organisations and activists fighting for a just and equitable world. To apply, you must have expertise and experience that goes beyond digital security. You will need a proven track record of working in information security roles and with nonprofits, foundations, or activists. We welcome applications from all who meet the person specification and particularly from candidates who are from historically-marginalised communities and are underrepresented in our team.
