Resilience Strategies for a Sustainable Human Rights Movement - Presentation OMCT Guidebook
Human rights defenders around the world are working in an increasingly hostile environment and under immense pressure. Defenders and activists are resisting repression, attacks, torture, intimidation and other violent strategies used with impunity to silence dissenting voices and terrorise human rights defenders and populations.
Confronting abuses of power, political violence and an unfavourable environment for justice deeply harms human rights defenders and their communities, including the professionals who serve them - leaving painful effects on an individual and collective level.
This report is a collective effort, led by OMCT, to create a space to shed light on this conversation. The aim of this report is not to locate the origins of oppression in the minds of the people being harmed or to pathologise people's responses and acts of resistance, but to reflect on the need to provide integrated and holistic support to the most vulnerable human rights defenders in order to contribute to a better protected and more sustainable human rights movement; while seeking justice and transforming the system of oppression that leads to this harm.
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