Resource Directory for Environmental Defenders

EDLC has compiled these resources to assist environmental defenders facing threats or legal actions, and welcomes inquiries, especially concerning legal assistance.

Financial and relocation assistance

• Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de L’Homme (“Working Together for Human Rights”)
• CIVICUS Crisis Response Fund (part of the Lifeline Embattled CSO Assistance Fund)
• CIVICUS Donor Finder (List of donors supporting activists and CSOs)
• Coalition for Human Rights in Development – Community Resource Exchange
• Elisabeth-Selbert-Initiative
• European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights
• Freedom House
• Front Line Defenders
• Fund for Global Human Rights
• Indigenous Peoples Rights International
• International Federation for Human Rights
• Lifeline Embattled CSO Assistance Fund
• ProtectDefenders.eu
• Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights

Campaigns and advocacy

• Amnesty International Urgent Action Network
• Cultural Survival (Indigenous defenders)
• EarthRights International
• ESCR-Net
• Front Line Defenders
• Human Rights First
• International Federation for Human Rights
• Mining Watch Canada (Canadian mining companies)

Legal Assistance

• EarthRights International
• Environmental Defender Law Center
• Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
• Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (Latin America)

General resources

• Asina Loyiko (SLAPP resources)
• Protection International
• Resources for human rights defenders
• Resource book for human rights defenders
• The European Union: what it can do, getting it to take action
• Trial observation handbook for human rights defenders
• Workbook on Security: Practical steps for human rights defenders at risk

Region or Country specific

• AfricanDefenders
• African Environmental Defenders Fund
• Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
• Brazil Human Rights Fund
• Chinese Human Rights Defenders
• East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project
• Guatemala (UDEFEGUA)
• Guatemala Human Rights Commission
• Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme (Women defenders)