Critical Perspectives on the Security and Protection of Human Rights Defenders

Karen Bennett is Senior Research Fellow in Human Rights and Director of the Human Rights and Social Justice Research (HRSJ) Institute at London Metropolitan University. She has led a research work stream on evaluating effective mechanisms in support of human rights defenders at risk since 2006, and designs rights-based training programmes for human rights defenders internationally.Danna Ingleton has a feminist and legal human rights background and has worked with numerous international organizations such as the Red Cross, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Amnesty International. She has worked on issues related to NGO and advocacy ethics including informed consent, participatory approaches and data management. Alice M. Nah is a Lecturer at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York. She conducts research on human rights defenders at risk; migration and asylum in Asia; and organisational effectiveness in civil society. James Savage is Program Officer for the Enabling Environment for Human Rights Defenders at the Fund for Global Human Rights. Previously he was Director of the Human Rights Defenders Programme at Amnesty International UK, where his work involved research, policy, advocacy, campaigning, capacity-building, grant-making and direct protection interventions in support of HRDs at risk and their enabling environments.