How can you keep safe as an LGBTQ+ activist? This training course will help you to prevent unauthorised access, to keep you safer in your campaigns work.
Prepare to be entertained and inspired!
What is this session about?
In this session we are going to take an intersectional look at “Preventing Unauthorised Access”. The aim of the session is to look at who we are and how we go about creating physical and political barriers that prevent access to the people and the information we most want to protect. We will work through tools that help us to identify steps in the process and you will get to practise as a group employing those tools. In each session, as a group we will learn from each other what strategies have been tried and what worked. By the end of the short session everyone, it's hoped, will feel more confident about their approaches to risk management and security planning.
Who should come to this event?
This event is aimed at people who are attending from the Global South, however, all are welcome if involved in LGBTQ+ activism.
Who is doing the training?
Shaun Martinez is a security risk management consultant at Open Briefing. Shaun has over 20 years’ experience working on the safety and security of human rights defenders and activists and supporting the victims of human rights violations. He has a keen interest in the rights of marginalised defenders and activists, including LGBTIQ+ activists, sex workers, women’s rights activists, and disability rights activists, and where these discriminations intersect with race and poverty to create even greater challenges. Shaun has worked with organisations across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He has worked for the UN, the EU, and the International Commission of Jurists. And he has provided international protective accompaniment to human rights defenders in Colombia and Nepal with Peace Brigades International. At present shaun is working on the security specifics for trans and non-binary folxs as rights get rolled back and democracies lapse.
Find out more at: https://www.reportout.org/summitdiary/wednesday%3A-security-training