HRDiplomacy developed the following handbooks and manuals for HRDs:

• For Amnesty International, a manual on how to organize a workshop bringing together local HRDs and diplomats from the EU and EU and like-minded countries aiming at increasing and improving diplomats' protection of HRDs through the implementation of the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders and the HRD protection policies of Canada, Norway, Switzerland, the UK and the US.
• For Front Line Defenders, a protection handbook for human rights defenders "The European Union:  What it can do, getting it to take action."  (February 2016).  This handbook was translated into French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian and is still being used by Front Line Defenders in EU Guidelines field workshops.
  
• For EuroMed Rights, a training guide and toolkit for HRDs from the Middle East and North Africa lobbying the EU and EU member states.

Handbooks and manuals for diplomats:

• For Amnesty International:  a handbook for diplomats on attending trials involving HRDs in Russia.  On the basis of interviews with Russian HRDs and lawyers and experienced diplomats, the handbook recommends the types of trials which diplomats should prioritize and ways they can make their work as effective as possible, ensuring positive outcomes for HRDs.  Published in 2018, the handbook has consistently received positive evaluations from diplomats.  It was used in a trial observation training for EU diplomats in Brussels as recently as March 2024.
  
• For EuroMed Rights:
  • "Toolkit - Raising Human Rights Concerns in Egypt, Key Messages and Counter-narratives" (June 2022).  This toolkit was positively evaluated by Cairo-based diplomats.
  • "Good practices in Action by Like-Minded Countries to Protect Human Rights Defenders" (September 2022).  This paper proposes criteria for "good practices" and presents cases studies of action taken by diplomats in China, Russia, Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Sri Lanka and Belarus.
    
  • "Trial Monitoring in Egypt" (October 2022).