In a process that lasted a year, 10 human rights lawyers of the Nepalese NGO Advocacy Forum were supported to produce stories and photos about their personal experience with their human rights work. In five workshops, they discussed their experience and how to order it. They explored difficult work situations and ended with almost 40 stories and many pictures that illustrate how the violation of human rights affect not only victims but those who try to defend them. We are now in the process of producing a book that will include the personal stories, the photos and commentaries on the process as well as on the psychosocial effects of specific types of human rights violations, on vicarious trauma and chronic fear. Contact: Barbara Weyermann
Completed in 2010. For the final book Close Encounters: Stories from the Frontline of Human Rights Work in Nepal we selected 11 essays and photos. We also added psychosocial commentaries that can help people working in the field of human rights to better understand the fear, (vicarious) trauma and grief that affect the lawyers and their clients.
The book can be ordered at: www.himalbooks.com
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