This document sets out the Action Plan for the first two years of the UNESCO Chair addressing the role of universities in the ‘Protection of HRDs, and Expansion of Political Space’. The Action Plan has been collaboratively produced, and draws on the following sources: 1) The process leading to the development of the application for the UNESCO Chair; 2) Research for the Working Paper, Universities as Sites of Activism and Protection; and 3) Discussion at the March 2023 launch of the UNESCO Chair in York (UK).