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)