Civil Rights Defenders
The Civil Rights Defenders group (Formerly the Swedish Helsinki Committee), founded in 1982, is a non-profit organization devoted to human rights. Civil Rights Defenders is working in Sweden, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Western Balkans and Eastern Europe. They also try to establish a collaboration in East Africa, including the horn of Africa. They work to improve people's right to freedom and justice through the strengthening of respect for their civil and political rights. Civil Rights Defenders reviewing laws, legislative and judicial authority and power to governments and policy makers who violate human rights. Civil Rights Defenders is also working with opinion leaders and advocacy efforts aimed at both the makers and both the public and civil society. The organization runs campaigns and disseminate knowledge through seminars, reports and mailings. An important part of the business is about paying attention to the situation of vulnerable human rights defenders in countries where they operate and in various ways to strengthen them in their work. The organization is led by Robert Hårdh, Executive Director, and Percy Bratt, Chair of the Board.
Natalia Bracelet
The Natalia Bracelet is a hi-tech bracelet that has been developed by the Civil Rights Defenders that would help to ensure the survival of civil rights and aid workers whose lives have been endangered by violent abduction. The bracelets are intended to help workers who have to enter war zones and other areas of conflict. The bracelet uses phone and Satellite navigation technology to transmit a warning that its wearer is in danger, and may be deliberately triggered or set off by forceful removal.
Mobile phone technology in the bracelet sends prepared messages that are automatically posted on Facebook and Twitter to ensure that workers do not disappear without trace. Triggering the alarm transmits data about the wearer's location and personal details, also alerting staff in the vicinity.[1]
Sources
Book: Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network