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Besides this programmatic work, we keep aiming to strengthen our teams' capacities and skills in this sector, to carry out research and to make sure that our communications contribute to promote a fair and realistic portrait of the HRDs we work hand in hand with. We revisit our communications permanently to avoid clichés and stereotypes about the figure of the "typical human right defender", the depolitisation of HRDs' struggles or the simplifications of their identities. Our publication A Critical Approach to the Right to Defend Human Rights analyses critically the traditional or mainstream "human rights defender" cliché... At Protection International, we believe that the benefits of economic development, growth, and prosperity must benefit society as a whole, not just a privileged few... Protection International (PI) strives to empower human rights defenders (HRDs) in ensuring their own security, rather than fostering a reliance on external actors and emergency interventions. PI..