Protecting human rights defenders here and abroad

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Defending Rights 

Dr Alice M Nah (CAHR) presents her research on how human rights defenders navigate risk, manage security, and receive protection support, focusing on specific examples from Colombia, Mexico, Egypt, Kenya and Indonesia. Sanna Eriksson (CAHR) will discuss the protection of HRDs through temporary relocation to Europe, with a specific focus on the work done by the CAHR through its Protective Fellowship Scheme for HRDs at Risk at the University of York.

The talks will be followed by a Q&A session.

Other lectures in this series include:

• Making York the first UK human rights city
• Representing refugees
• When corporations and activists collide