Protecting whistleblowers and NGOs from getting SLAPPed
Whistleblowers and NGOs play a vital role in speaking up and advocating against wrongdoing – from human rights abuses and environmental damage to government corruption and corporate misdeeds.
But speaking up come with enormous risk.
It’s why the Human Rights Law Centre has launched a new guide to help protect whistleblowers and NGOs from retaliatory legal risks, and safeguard truth-telling and transparency.
Protecting whistleblowers and NGOs from getting SLAPPed:
- identifies the most significant legal risks associated with working with
whistleblowers and provides key summaries for NGOs to consider when conducting risk assessments in their work; - aims to facilitate a greater culture of transparency; and
- support organisations in their advocacy by leveraging the truth-telling of whistleblowers.
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