Resources 2.7 • University of York, Human Rights Defender Hub, Policy Brief 7: From a “Culture of Unwellness” to Sustainable Advocacy: mental health and human rights (2019) • University of York, Human Rights Defender Hub, Policy Brief 1: Wellbeing, Risk, and Human Rights Practice (2017) • University of York, Durham University, Protection International, Strengthening the Inclusion, Protection, and Wellbeing of Human Rights Defenders with Disabilities (2024) • Freedom House, Mental Health and Well-being Guides for Women HRDs (2023) • FORUM-ASIA, Psychosocial well-being for HRDs in the Philippines (2020) Engaging with the UN on reprisals for cooperating with the UN Over the past decade, the UN has increased its efforts to address reprisals against HRDs for cooperating with bodies in the UN family. The UN has created specific mechanisms for this purpose: The Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights is tasked with leading these efforts. The ASG receives allegations, communicates directly with high level officials on cases, and advocates more broadly for the preventive measures. Every year, the Secretary General issues a report on reprisals against HRDs for engaging with the UN. NHRIs can submit information to the report, and support HRDs to do so. Resources 2.8 • OHCHR’s webpage on reprisals against HRDs for cooperating with the United Nations in the field of human rights: www.ohchr.org/en/reprisals • ISHR, Reprisals Handbook (2018) focuses on how to engage with the UN and regional human rights systems on reprisals for collaborating with this systems. • ISHR has many more resources on ending reprisals against HRDs: ishr.ch/endreprisals Facilitating relocation and respite Often a last resort, many HRDs continue in the face of challenges, only turning to relocation and respite when they feel all other options have been exhausted (explored in more depth in the following section). Resources • The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders has a webpage which gathers information on financial grants and other emergency protection resources for HRDs from different organisations around the world: https://srdefenders.org/resources/grants-financial-resources/. • Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Report to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders (A/HRC/31/55) (1 February 2016) focuses on good practices in protecting human rights defenders. Relocation and Respite Toolkit 15