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This report details the responses from an enquiry into sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector. The report details the progress made between 2018 and 2020, particularly recognising new practices and procedures established to tackle this problem and improvements…
This document, produced by the Resource and Support Hub, is a summary of the Bond-produced document Good Governance for Safeguarding: A Guide for UK NGO Boards. Organisations can become safer if they have good governance structures in place. This short…
Front Line Defenders have recently released their Global Analysis report looking at Human Right Defenders in 2020. The report looks at the global impact 2020 had on human right defenders overall, particularly the impact of COVID-19, before delving into more…
The Global Score Report highlights the national and international entities identified in the survey and data findings as especially effective at reaching people in hard-to-reach areas, and some emerging practices and new models that hold promise. These include peer-to-peer learning…
Around the world there is an unprecedented surge in attacks against human rights defenders – people who protect and promote human rights. Amnesty’s new report On the Human Rights Frontline is centred on interviews with 82 human rights defenders in seven countries…
The year 2020 has witnessed governments respond to the global COVID-19 crisis by rushing to deploy technological solutions, from contact tracing applications to digital health certificates and passports. The pandemic has brought to center stage the significant threats new technologies…
The Resource and Support Hub has developed a series of five free and accessible online training modules called Safeguarding Matters. The modules tell the story of a fictional civil society organisation called Family Health Frontiers (FHF). Over the five modules, learners join the FHF…
Achieving safe operations through acceptance: challenges and opportunities for security risk management The Global Interagency Security Forum (GISF) is pleased to announce the opening of a call for papers for its upcoming publication, Achieving safe operations through acceptance: challenges and…
This guide contains tips and resources for exploring open source intelligence on oneself to prevent malicious actors from finding and using this information for publishing, blackmailing or other forms of harassment.
This documentary explores GOAL’s incident in 2009 when two aid workers were abducted in Darfur, Sudan. The video provides a reflection of the incident, the mistakes in GOAL’s security and a detailed account of the incident from Sharon Cummings. Disclaimer…