Profile
Biography
Patricia (Trish) Bartley coordinates the Protective Fellowship Schemes at CAHR. The fellowship schemes bring human rights defenders at risk to York for a period of three to six months. She has also collaborated on the HRD Hub’s research on the security of defenders at risk, conducted research projects on best practices and wellbeing guidance for temporary relocation providers and worked with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders during his country visit to Mexico.
Trish holds an MA in Applied Human Rights (University of York), PGCE in Modern Languages (University of Leeds) and a BSc (Hons) Econ in European Studies (University of Wales). Before joining CAHR in 2015, she worked as a Teacher Trainer, including two years as an Education Advisor in Ethiopia and Eritrea and prior to that led Modern Languages departments in the UK and taught languages in Spain. She is a long-term member of Amnesty UK's East and Horn Regional team with particular expertise on the situation of human rights defenders in Ethiopia and Kenya, and forms part of Amnesty UK's Teacher Advisory Group.
Research
Overview
Trish has worked on several research projects relating to the security and wellbeing of human rights defenders. Between October 2015 and January 2019 she worked on a large project which explored how human rights defenders navigate risks, manage their personal security, and receive protection support in five countries – Colombia, Mexico, Egypt, Kenya, and Indonesia. Her work included a particular focus on the complex, hostile and insecure environment in which human rights defenders operate in Mexico and examined how experiences of risk, security and protection are gendered and intersectional.
Between 2018 and 2020 Trish conducted two research projects looking at practices of temporary relocation programmes for human rights defenders. The first examined temporary protection programmes from different angles in order to contribute to increasing their effectiveness and best practice. The second focused on gathering examples of good practices and case studies aiming to complement the principles of the Barcelona Guidelines on Wellbeing and Temporary International Relocation of Human Rights Defenders at Risk and to put specific recommendations and cross-cutting issues of the Guidelines into practice.
Publications
Selected publications
Nah, A.M., Maliamauv, K. and Bartley, P. (2018) Countering the Stigmatization of Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights Defender Hub Policy Brief 5, Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York: York, available at https://securityofdefendersproject.org/
Jones, Nah and Bartley (2019) Temporary Shelter and Relocation Initiatives, Perspectives of Managers and Participants
Bartley (2020) Wellbeing During Temporary International Relocation: Case Studies and Good Practices
Bartley, P., Monterrosas, E., & Pacheco Ruiz, P. (2020). Resisting a hostile and insecure environment for defending rights in Mexico. In Protecting human rights defenders at risk (pp. 104-129). Routledge
