OUR
PURPOSE
The Human Rights Resilience Project (HRRP) addresses the well-being of human rights advocates. Through its “Resources for Resilience” initiative, HRRP offers a centralized platform for the human rights community. This platform provides access to essential resources and research, fostering knowledge sharing and collaboration – all aimed at promoting resilience among human rights workers.
.PEER TO PEER
SUPPORT INITIATIVE
This initiative brings together organizations and movements to co-design, build, pilot, implement, evaluate, research, and share knowledge about peer-to-peer (P2P) support programs for social justice. Peers provide knowledge, experience, and emotional, social and practical support to each other.
THE DEFENDERS WELLBEING COLLECTIVE
A unique space for leaders of grassroots, community, and survivor-led human rights organizations or movements globally to reflect, experiment, share, and learn together about how best to support greater well-being and resilience within their organizations and movements.
RESILIENCE TOOLS
& PROGRAMMES
A central hub of various toolkits on Collective Care, Racism, Self-Care, and Crisis Responses for human defenders and organizations to utilize. This hub provides accessible, evidence-based tools to enhance emotional endurance and create sustainable self-care practices in high-stress advocacy environments.
WELLBEING RESEARCH
Interdisciplinary research, well-being practices, and policies gathered by organizations about how human rights work can affect mental health and well-being. While research on the mental health impacts of human rights work is growing, significant gaps remain, highlighting the need for interdisciplinary studies.
LATEST RESEARCH
Safer Viewing: A Study of Secondary Trauma Mitigation Techniques in Open Source Investigations
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Human Rights Leadership: Towards a Research and Practice Agenda for Challenging Times, Eric Hoddy and John Gray, Human Rights Defender Hub Working Paper No. 9, University of York (May 2020)
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Wellbeing Inspires Welldoing: How Changemakers’ Inner Wellbeing Influences Their Work, Severns Guntzel, J. & Murphy Johnson, N. (2020)
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Mental Health Disorders and Utilization of Mental Healthcare Services in United Nations Personnel, Adam D. Brown, Katharina Schultebraucks, Meng Qian, Meng Li, Danny Horesh, Carol Siegel, Yosef Brody, Abdalla Mansour Amer, Rony Kapel Lev-Ari, Francis Mas, Charles R. Marmar and Jillann Farmer, Global Mental Health (2020)
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Identifying Your Role and Practicing Self-Care as a Young Black Activist, Genisha Metcalf, DoSomething.org (October 2020)
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“Racism, Whiteness, and Burnout in Antiracism Movements: How White Racial Justice Activists Elevate Burnout in Racial Justice Activists of Color in the United States”, Paul C Gorski and Noura Erakat, Ethnicities (March 2019)
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A Needs Assessment: Stress Management and Burnout Prevention for Case Workers and Human Rights Activists Working on Issues of Gender and Sexuality in India, TARSHI and Nazariya (2019)
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Healing Justice: Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers, Loretta Pyles, Oxford University Press (2018)
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Even the Finest of Warriors, Yara Sallam (written in Arabic and translated into English by Zainab Magdy)
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Well-being, Risk, and Human Rights Practice, Alice Nah, Human Rights Defender Hub Policy Brief 1, University of York (2017)
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Estrés Traumático Secundario (ETS) en Periodistas Mexicanos y Defensores de Derechos Humanos, Rogelio Morales, Liliana Souza Colin, Angela O. Mireles, Bonilla Allende (2016) Summa Psicológica UST, 13, 101-111.
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“Frayed All Over:” The Causes and Consequences of Activist Burnout Among Social Justice Education Activists, Paul C. Gorski and Cher Chen, Educational Studies (2015)
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Burnout in Social Justice and Human Rights Activists: Symptoms, Causes and Implications, Cher Weixia Chen and Paul C. Gorski, Journal of Human Rights Practice (2015)
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Exhumations in Latin America: Current Status and Pending Challenges: A Psychosocial View, Susan Navarro-Garcia, Pau Perez-Sales, Alberto Fernandez-Liria, Peace & Conflict Review, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (2010)
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Psychosocial Community Approaches and Practices in Latin America, Arancha Garcia del Soto, Intervention, Vol. 6, No. 3/4 (2008)
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Trauma, Development, and Peacebuilding: Towards an Integrated Psychosocial Approach, Final Conference Report, International Conference hosted by INCORE, University of Ulster (2008)
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Mental Health Status of Human Rights Workers, Kosovo, June 2000, Timothy Holtz, Peter Salama, Barbara Cardozo, and Carol Gotway, Journal of Traumatic Stress (2000)
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Updating the Nonprofit Work Ethic, Beth Kanter and Aliza Sherman, Stanford Social Innovation Review, (2016)
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Self-Care for Activists: Sustaining Your Most Valuable Resource, New Tactics (Sept. 21, 2010)
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Sustainable Activism: Managing hope and despair in social movements, Paul Hoggett and Rosemary Randall, Transformation, Open Democracy (Dec. 12, 2016)
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Resilience as Resistance: Mental health and well-being in human rights, Open Global Rights Blog Series
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Embodiment as resilience and resistance in human rights work, Loretta Pyles, OpenGlobalRights (March 2019)
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A culture of care: helping activists and their allies look after themselves, Marianne Mollmann, openDemocracy (June 2019)
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The Importance of Self-Care for Activists, Shandre Delaney, Law @ the Margins (August 2019)
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Centered Self: The Connection Between Inner Well-Being and Social Change, Stanford Social Innovation Review (2020)
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Activism As Self-Care: How to Energize the Most Important Work of Your Life, Ragen Chastain, Better Humans (May 2020)
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How To Balance Activism and Self-Care, According To A Wellness Coach, Eliza Dumais, Refinery29 (July 2020)
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Identifying Your Role and Practicing Self-Care as a Young Black Activist, Genisha Metcalf, DoSomething.org (October 2020)
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Activism Fatigue: The Mind is a Powerful Resource of Change, Elizabeth Montoya, Morning Sign Out (October 2020)
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Self-care and self-defense manual for feminist activists, Marina Bernal, Artemisa, Elige, CREA. (2008)
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New Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders, Enrique Eguren and Marie Caraj, Protection International, (2008)
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“Trauma and Self Care,” Manual on human rights monitoring, Chapter 12, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations (2011)
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4 Self-Care Resources for When the World is Terrible, Miriam Zoila Pérez, ColorLines, (Jul. 7, 2016)
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Reiter and Koenig on Challenges and Strategies for Researching Trauma, Keramet Reiter and Alexa Koenig, Palgrave Macmillan (2017)
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Staying Resilient While Trying to Save the World: A Fanzine for Activists and Volunteers, Amnesty International (2020)
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Staying Resilient While Trying to Save the World: A Fanzine for Activists and Volunteers Vol. 2, Amnesty International (2020)
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Self-care and prevention of burnout among activists – tools for everyday life, Frontline Aids
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Donor Ethics and the Revolution in the Making: Understanding the Role of Well-being in Human Rights Funding
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Racism, Whiteness, and Burnout in Antiracism Movements: How White Racial Justice Activists Elevate Burnout in Racial Justice Activists of Color in the United States
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Racial battle fatigue and activist burnout in racial justice activists of color at predominantly White colleges and universities
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Coping Flexibility Predicts Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Depression in Human Rights Advocates
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Trauma, Depression and Burnout in the Human Rights Field: Identifying Barriers and Pathways to Resilient Advocacy
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The Barcelona Guidelines on Wellbeing and Temporary International Relocation of Human Rights Defenders
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From a “Culture of Unwellness” to Sustainable Advocacy: Organizational Responses to Mental Health Risks in the Human Rights Field
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