Chitra Nagarajan is involved in movements against fundamentalism and for LGBTQIA rights and climate, economic, gender, and racial justice. Doing so has involved the following actions:

• raising awareness of human rights with vulnerable and socially excluded civilians and supporting them to conduct advocacy with those in power;

• engaging with soldiers, police officers, and community militia members on human rights, international humanitarian law, and civilian protection and harm mitigation in operations via training and advocacy;

• facilitating community dialogues between civilians and security forces on civilian protection and human rights;

• mapping actors engaged in feminist macro-economic policy influencing on the African continent;

• campaigning on access of migrant gender-based violence survivors to protection and safety;

• conducting disability audit of programming and developing programming options for better disability inclusion;

• researching the impacts of anti-rights mobilisations on LGBTQIA, sex worker, and women’s rights and movements;

• supporting women’s rights organisations to learn better practices on conflict transformation;

• mapping the intersections of LGBTQIA rights and women, peace and security and identifying potential entry points;

• integrating trauma and safeguarding into health systems strengthening;

• supporting, mentoring, and accompanying African women’s funds and networks on safeguarding;

• supporting gender-based violence services to adapt to COVID-19 realities so they were able to continue providing services during this time of heightened violence in ways that mitigated infection risk; and

• being active on Boards of human rights organisations focused on migrants, women’s, and LGBTQIA rights.