Comité Cerezo — Manual de seguridad para organizaciones sociales
Summary
A Spanish-language step-by-step facilitator guide for running a security workshop with a Mexican social organisation, produced by the Comité Cerezo (a Mexican human-rights NGO focused on the protection of imprisoned and persecuted social activists); covers collective risk analysis and the construction of an organisational security plan.
Body
The Manual de seguridad para organizaciones sociales is the Comité Cerezo’s working guide for running a protection workshop with a Mexican social organisation that is facing — or anticipating — state, paramilitary, or corporate surveillance, intimidation, or aggression. The manual is structured as a facilitator’s script: it walks the reader through the workshop arc from the opening diagnóstico colectivo (collective diagnosis of the group’s situation and the threats it faces) through the structured risk analysis (mapping amenazas against vulnerabilidades and capacidades — the classic Front Line Defenders / Tactical Tech formulation adapted to a Spanish-language Latin American context) to the construction of a written security plan. Each section pairs the analytical frame with a concrete activity the facilitator can run (card-sorting threats, mapping communication trees, designing digital and physical hygiene protocols). The Comité Cerezo’s distinctive contribution is the framing of seguridad integral — security that is colectiva (not the responsibility of one individual) and organizativa (built into the group’s structures, not improvised under crisis) — and the specific attention to the political context of Mexican social movements (state surveillance, paramilitary groups, criminal organisations, gender-based violence against women defenders). The manual is widely used by Mexican and Central American civil-society organisations as the entry point to the broader holistic-security corpus. Treat as link-only — paraphrase, link out to the comité’s site for the verbatim script [source: comite-cerezo-seguridad-organizaciones].
Use it for
Designing a security workshop for a Mexican or Central American social organisation; running a diagnóstico colectivo of threats, vulnerabilities, and capacities; constructing an organisational security plan that integrates digital, physical, psychosocial, and legal dimensions; training a new facilitator inside the defensoras de derechos humanos network.
Related
- affinity-groups
- coalition-building
- constructive-programme
- distributed-organizing
- framing-and-narrative
- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- public-narrative
Open Questions
None yet — the Comité Cerezo host confirmed live (200 OK; 97 KB HTML); the canonical PDF URL is the comitecerezo.org resource page.
Sources & verification
- sources/comite-cerezo-seguridad-organizaciones — grounding: primary — RAW comitecerezo.org host confirmed live (200 OK).