Promoting Restoration and Capacity Building for Human Rights Investigators

Summary

Promoting Restoration and Capacity Building for Human Rights Investigators is a project funded by the New Venture Fund, Public Interest Technology Network, under the direction of UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley. As the terrain for human rights challenges move online, this well-being toolkit is meant to equip investigators, from early career to long-time ones, with the key strategies for sustenance. Drawing inspiration by human rights investigators around the world and our students at the Human Rights Investigations Labs at UC Santa Cruz Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas and at UC Berkeley Human Rights Center, School of Law, we have a shared vision that people’s mental and physical well-being is of critical importance to capacity building for human rights work. Seeking to counter a culture of over-work and exhaustion, this restoration toolkit serves as a reminder that slowing down is to our collective benefit.

This report and toolkit is available in both English and Spanish.