![]() She brings particular expertise documenting human rights abuses in armed conflicts and exposing security force violations from her nine years as an investigator with Human Rights Watch. ![]() Priyanka Motaparthy is the Director of the Counterterrorism, Armed Conflict, and Human Rights Project. Prior to joining HRI, Motaparthy served as acting Emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, where she led the Emergencies division’s investigations and reporting on global atrocities and human rights crises. This edition also seeks to clarify how counter-terrorism legislation may affect the activities of protection actors.Director, Project on Counterterrorism, Armed Conflict and Human Rights There are more detailed orientations on the need to uphold a principled approach to protection work when interacting with UN peace operations and other multinational forces. There is now a stronger emphasis on measuring the outcome of protection activities in terms of the extent to which identified risks have been reduced, and on monitoring and evaluation. Given the rapid developments in information communication technology and concurrent growth in data-protection law, comprehensive guidelines on protection information management have also been incorporated. ![]() This third edition takes into account the changes that have occurred in the environment in which protection actors operate and now reflects the distinctive characteristics of human rights and humanitarian actors engaged in protection work. The standards were adopted following an ICRC-led consultation process. ![]() The standards reflect shared thinking and common agreement among humanitarian and human rights practitioners (UN, NGOs, and components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement). Professional Standards for Protection Work (third edition) constitutes a set of minimum but essential standards aimed at ensuring that protection work carried out by human rights and humanitarian actors in armed conflict and other situations of violence is safe and effective. ![]()
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