Share Your Story
Your Voice Can Advance Human Rights
Every testimony has the power to protect human dignity, strengthen accountability, and inspire change. Behind every human rights report, advocacy initiative, and policy recommendation are individuals whose experiences help the world better understand the realities of injustice. Share Your Story is the Confederation for Democracy and Human Rights (CDDH)'s secure and survivorcentred platform for receiving personal testimonies, documenting human rights violations, and preserving lived experiences. It provides a trusted space where individuals, families, witnesses, and communities can safely share their experiences, knowing that their voices will be treated with professionalism, dignity, confidentiality, and respect. Whether your experience relates to arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearance, political persecution, forced displacement, restrictions on civic freedoms, environmental harm, discrimination, or any other human rights concern, your story can help strengthen public understanding, support evidence-based advocacy, preserve historical memory, and contribute to lasting justice.
Every testimony matters
Every voice has value.
Every story can make a difference.
Our Vision
We envision a world where every individual has a safe opportunity to share their experience, where every testimony is respected and protected, and where personal stories contribute to truth, accountability, justice, institutional reform, and the prevention of future human rights violations.
Our Mission
Share Your Story seeks to:
- Provide a secure and trusted platform for sharing lived experiences.
- Document human rights violations through ethical and survivor-centred practices.
- Amplify underrepresented voices in national, regional, and international advocacy.
- Preserve historical memory for future generations.
- Support research, reporting, accountability, and justice initiatives.
- Encourage solidarity, resilience, and meaningful public engagement.
Why Your Story Matters
Every testimony helps build a more complete understanding of human rights realities.
Personal experiences reveal the human impact of arbitrary detention, torture, political persecution, displacement, discrimination, violence, and other violations in ways that statistics and legal documents alone cannot. By sharing your experience, you contribute to credible documentation, strengthen advocacy efforts, support institutional learning, and help protect others from similar abuses. Your story becomes part of a collective effort to promote justice, accountability, and lasting change.
Who Can Share a Story?
We welcome submissions from:
- Former Political Prisoners
- Political Exiles
- Human Rights Defenders
- Journalists and Media Professionals
- Lawyers and Civic Leaders
- Democracy Activists
- Whistleblowers
- Survivors of Torture
- Survivors of Arbitrary Detention
- Survivors of Enforced Disappearance
- Families of Political Prisoners
- Families of Victims who Died in Detention
- Victims of Human Rights Violations
- Witnesses - Community Representatives
- Civil Society Organisations
Everyone has the right to be heard with dignity and respect.
What You Can Share
You may submit:
- Personal testimonies
- Written narratives
- Witness statements
- Case information
- Photographs
- Videos
- Audio recordings
- Official documents
- Court decisions
- Medical reports
- Advocacy materials
- Other relevant supporting evidence
Submissions may be provided in English, French, or other languages whenever possible.
Your Privacy and Security
Protecting contributors is one of CDDH's highest priorities. Every submission is handled with strict attention to confidentiality, informed consent, digital security, and ethical responsibility. Before publishing any testimony, CDDH carefully assesses potential risks, discusses publication options with contributors where appropriate, and seeks the necessary consent.
Contributors may choose to:
- Publish under their full name.
- Publish under a pseudonym.
- Remain partially anonymous.
- Request complete confidentiality.
Whenever necessary, information may be withheld or anonymised to protect the safety and well-being of contributors and their families.
How Your Story Creates Impact
With your informed consent, your testimony may contribute to:
- Featured Cases
- Voices of Courage
- Human Rights Reports
- Country Reports
- Policy Briefs
- Research Publications
- Advocacy Campaigns
- Urgent Actions
- Strategic Litigation
- International Advocacy
- Public Awareness Initiatives
- Educational Resources
- Historical Documentation
- Submissions to International and Regional Human Rights Mechanisms
Every contribution strengthens CDDH's ability to document violations, protect victims, promote accountability, and advance human rights worldwide.
Our Commitment
CDDH is committed to creating a trusted environment where every individual can share their experience safely and with confidence. We recognise the courage required to speak about injustice. Our responsibility is to honour that courage by ensuring that every testimony is handled ethically, responsibly, and with the highest standards of professionalism. We are committed to listening with respect, documenting with integrity, protecting confidentiality, and using every testimony to advance truth, justice, and human dignity.
Share Your Voice
Your experience matters.
Your voice deserves to be heard.
Your testimony can help protect others, preserve historical memory, strengthen advocacy, and contribute to a more just, democratic, and accountable world. Together, we transform lived experiences into knowledge, knowledge into action, and action into lasting change.
Explore Related Programmes
Continue exploring how Share Your Story contributes to CDDH's broader mission.
- Featured Cases
- Voices of Courage
- Political Prisoners
- Political Exiles
- Human Rights Defenders
- International Advocacy
- Human Rights Reports
- Campaigns & Petitions
- Press Releases
- Research & Publications