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Domesticating International Human Rights Law

... human rights conventions at the local level to improve women's rights ...

Dialogue - New Tactics - 09/02/2010 - 14:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

Self-Care for Activists: Sustaining Your Most Valuable Resource

... United States Lin Chew of the Institute for Women's Empowerment (IWE), Hong Kong [Photo credit: Holly Wilmeth ] ...

Dialogue - New Tactics - 09/02/2010 - 13:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

Empowering Citizens to Fight Corruption

... MOVEMENT (Kuwait) : In May 2006, a group of young men and women, communicating through text messages, launched the “Orange Movement” ... human rights, social and economic justice, workers rights, women’s rights, rural land rights, democracy, and others.  The ...

Blog entry - New Tactics - 09/01/2010 - 10:47 - 104 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

Staying Safe: Security Resources for Human Rights Defenders

... Barry - author of Insiste, Persiste, Resiste, Existe: Women Human Rights Defenders Security Strategies (with Vahida Nainar) ... Edna Aquino of Stop Stoning and Killing Women Campaign Sarah Willcox of the Scholar Rescue Fund Saira ... members of society came out using the media in favor of women in leadership roles. Religious leaders signing statements that said Islam ...

Blog entry - New Tactics - 09/01/2010 - 16:52 - 117 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

Mobilizing citizens to turn off their lights everyday to protest government corruption

... tactic was adapted in Iran In the cover of night, men, women and children in Iran go on their rooftops and chant “Allahu Akbar” ...

Tactic - Lrubenstein - 08/31/2010 - 19:44 - 4 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

Engaging local leaders to become women’s rights and victim advocates

The Coalition on Violence against Women (COVAW) engages chiefs and other local leaders to become women’s rights advocates and resources for victims. The program was formed because of the lack of women’s rights advocates for women who have been subjected to violence. Women ...

Tactic - Lrubenstein - 08/31/2010 - 18:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

Forming savings clubs to create greater independence for women

The 5-in-6 program helps women in South Africa use the collective power of human and financial resources ... movement while accumulating monetary resources. Among women, this creates communal support and economic independence. Women establish savings clubs that develop confidence and independence, ...

Tactic - Lrubenstein - 08/31/2010 - 18:25 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

The Dilemma Demonstration: Using nonviolent civil disobedience to put the government between a rock and a hard place

... Advance Change: The National Tribunal on Violence Against Women in Nigeria Attachment Size ...

Notebook - glottus - 08/30/2010 - 13:37 - 0 comments - 5 attachments - 0 groups

Using cultural resources to provide an alternative to mainstream perceptions of human rights

... RADI took advantage of existing support groups for women, called mbottayes, by engaging popular entertainers to perform sketches about violence against women and other human rights abuses. The actors convey human rights messages in ... the group with information on reformed laws and how women can use these changes effectively. Women and men who have attended these ...

Tactic - Lrubenstein - 08/26/2010 - 16:16 - 2 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

Using a nomination campaign to identify new constituencies for human rights

... for male role models. Volunteers go house to house asking women and children to nominate men in their lives as “Everyday Heroes.” The ... statistic that in South Africa one man in six abuses the women in his life. The 5-in-6 program in South Africa raises awareness of the ...

Tactic - Lrubenstein - 08/26/2010 - 16:10 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups