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Innovation

Civil Rights Defenders’ Innovation work develops solutions to empower the world’s bravest human rights activists to do what they do best.

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Defender-Centric

The work is designed to directly address and support the unique concerns of Human Rights Defenders worldwide with tailor-made solutions to the problems they face.

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Innovation Challenge

We awared projects that find smart solutions that enable continued human rights work globally. You can receive funding to turn your idea into a prototype.

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Partners and donors

We partner with Berkeley, Hyper Island, Design 4 Democracy, LiU Innovation, Postkodlotteriet and many more. The innovation projects are possible thanks to these collaborations.

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Tools for defenders

News from Innovation

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Right Agenda Accelerator; Sweden’s first accelerator programme on human rights

We are proud to announce that Civil Rights Defenders’ Innovation work, in cooperation with Linköping University (LiU) and its LiU Innovation, has been awarded funding by Vinnova to create Sweden’s first accelerator programme for human rights called the Right Agenda Accelerator.

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Why we innovate

We innovate because human rights defenders in the world today are fighting against a wave of continuously evolving authoritarianism. If we do not innovate then we will surely be overwhelmed by the new technologies that are being employed in the name of surveillance and control.

Security – Impact – Financial Sustainability

Security – To improve the security of Human Rights Defenders in their context.

Impact – To empower human rights defenders to increase their impact on civil and political rights.

Financial Sustainability – To ensure that the work of human rights defenders can continue long into the future.

Wrighter

Take part of Wrighter – the world’s first advocacy planning tool for human rights defenders! Developing a plan to enable advocacy work can sometimes be tricky. Wrighter is a new interactive online tool developed by Civil Rights Defenders that enables you to create tailormade advocacy plans in a few easy steps.

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