Thematic Resources

Corporate Accountability

• Mining and Women in Asia: Experiences of women protecting their communities and human rights against corporate mining by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD): a product of the Food Over Gold campaign of the Women and Environment Task Force  launched in 2005 as part of APWLD’s programme on Women’s Food Sovereignty. The contents are results of mining fact-finding missions, fora- discussions on women and mining and an Asia study session on women and mining.

Indigenous People's Rights

• Indigenous Peoples by Amnesty International
• Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Defenders Network: established to address the growing need of a common platform for indigenous human rights defenders to be able to promote the human rights issues of their respective countries more effectively with other indigenous human rights organizations and with regional and international human rights mechanisms and procedures.
• José Aylwin: Indigenous Peoples Land and Resource Rights in Latin America-Law and Practice: video by lawyer from Chile, indigenous rights specialist in latin America. 

Labor Rights

• Publications and Resources by International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF)
• Resources available at the Labor Center at UC Berkeley

Land and Resources Rights

• International mechanisms for protecting Human Rights Defenders at risk for their work on land rights: Infonote by the International Land Coalition: information on international protection mechanisms and organisations addressing human rights violations related to land.
• Land and Resources Rights Projects by Chemonics
• Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS): the Pan-African Programme on Land and Resource Rights is a civil society initiative established in 2001to develop and articulate an African voice on land and resource rights, policies and advocacy, and to engage with regional and international players in research, advocacy and policy-making events on the continent.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People's Rights

• International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL)'s How Sexuality Is Used to Attack Women's Organizing: attacks on women's sexualities threaten all women's basic human rights to bodily integrity, to expression, and to association--as well as undermine essential values of equality and dignity. 
• Conference Report: Urgent Action Fund's This Body! Supporting LGBTI Organising in East Africa: to deepen understanding of notions of equality and generate interest in a broad based approach towards affirming and securing equality for all, particularly minorities.
• LGBTI Protection Manual by Protection International.
• The Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: A primer to working with the United Nations Treaty Monitoring Bodies and the Special Procedures of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights by Amnesty International (available inEnglish, French and Spanish):guidance on how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can use the UN eaty Monitoring Bodies and the Special Procedures to raise cases concerning the promotion and protection of the human rights of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. 
• International Human Rights Violations on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by the International Commission of Jurists.
• Principles on the Applicaiton of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, by the International Commission of Jurists and the International Service for Human Rights: a set of international legal principles on the application of international law to human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity to bring greater clarity and coherence to states’ human rights obligations.
• Accessing U.S. Embassies- A Guide for LGBT Human Rights Defenders, by the Council for Global Equality's: resource for encouraging U.S. embassies to stand in support of fundamental human rights for all individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
• LGBT Rights: A Human Rights Perspective from the University of Minnesota.

Migrant's Rights

• Primer on the human rights of migrants by Amnesty International: sets out a campaigning agenda for migrants’ rights. The primer seeks to articulate Amnesty International's key message to the public, policy-makers and other actors: migrants’ rights are human rights.

Women's Rights

• Right To Safety: Women Human Rights Defenders’ Holistic Approach to Protection assesses the various mechanisms that have been developed to provide protection to WHRDs at risk, including initiatives developed by national governments, and regional and international human rights bodies.

• Global Report on the Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders by Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition: context in which WHRDs work, recognizing that the social, cultural, economic and political environment substantively influences the challenges WHRDs face and can exacerbate their vulnerability (available in English, French and Spanish)
• Ten Insights to strengthen Responses for Women human Rights Defenders at Risk by Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID): key considerations for strengthening responses for WHRDs at risk, by ensuring that they are strategic and properly resourced. 
• Engendering Peace: Incorporating a Gender Perspective in Civilian Peace Terms by International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR, 2010): exploration of the field of civilian-based peacekeeping from a gender perspective.
• WHRDs Resource Book: collection of papers presented at the plenary sessions of the International Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders. 
• Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD): guidebook centered around continuing engagement with issues regarding the protection of women human rights defenders at both the conceptual and practical levels
• Women Human rights Defenders and the Struggle for Justice in Colombia (SPA) by ABColombia, OIDHACO, and U.S. Office on Colombia: recommendations, information on vulnerable groups of women defenders, and political protection. 
• Addressing Gaps in the Defense of Women Human Rights Defenders by Rutger's Center for Women's Global Leadership: addresses the unique challenges women human rights defenders face and to create new systems of advocacy on their behalf.
• Women Human Rights Defenders Concept Papers by Nazra for Feminist Studies (available in English and Arabic)
• Directory of UN Resources on Gender and Women's Issues by the Women Watch