One of PI’s key areas of expertise has been the monitoring of and contribution to public policy initiatives for the protection of HRDs worldwide. This strand of work is core to PI’s mission, as it runs through the 3 pillars of our strategy:
- We support HRDs initiatives to advocate for national public policies that ensure a safer environment for their work;
- We advocate for State authorities to adopt public policies based on international standards on the protection of HRDs;
- We persuade other relevant stakeholders to also advocate and contribute to the adoption of public policies for the protection of HRDs at national level.
We monitor from a critical perspective the development, implementation and impact of public policies for the protection of the right to defend human rights. We have also undertaken research and systematisation of good practices and lessons learned, from which we have drawn different publications.