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Blog: Empowering Citizens to Fight Corruption
It's not too late to add your comments to add your comments to this dialogue on Empowering Citizens to Fight Corruption. This dialogue explored how campaigns have empowered and mobilized citizens to counter corruption in their communities.
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Blog: Using Radio to Empower and Engage Communities
It's not too late to add your comments to our tactical dialogue on Using Radio to Empower and Engage Communities. This dialogue brought together human rights practitioners using community radio to empower communities, shortwave radio to reach communities limited by government-run media and radio stations, and other innovative uses of audio to share critical information.
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Blog: Staying Safe: Security Resources for Human Rights Defenders
It's not too late to add your comments to this important online dialogue on Staying Safe: Security Resources for Human Rights Defenders. Human rights work is powerful and necessary; it is important identify strategies and methods for protection of these defenders.
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Blog: Engaging youth in non-violent alternatives to militarism
It's not too late to add your comments to our dialogue on the topic 'Engaging youth in non-violent alternatives to militarism'. This tactical dialogue is a space for those working with and interested in engaging youth in non-violent alternatives to militarism to share their stories, challenges, resources and ideas.
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Blog: Tactics That Tickle: Laughing All the Way to the Win
Yes, we are working to change serious problems, but that doesn’t mean this work should not use humor as a tool to accomplish our objective! Humor is a powerful nonviolent tactic that has the ability to prevent and counter activist burnout, engage more supporters, and increase the chance of getting media attention. In this dialogue, practitioners shared advice and resources on using humor, and many examples to inspire you.
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Blog: Using Budgets for Monitoring
This featured dialogue on 'Using Budgets for Monitoring' took place from February 24 to March 2, 2010. It's not too late to add new comments!
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Blog: Training Law Enforcement for Prevention of Ill-Treatment and Torture
This dialogue featured law enforcement professionals, torture prevention organizations and torture treatment and rehabilitation programs from around the world sharing effective ways of bridging the challenges law enforcement face and citizens they serve.
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Blog: Geo-mapping for human rights
"Geo-mapping for Human Rights" focuses on the role of spatial mapping tools in working to further human rights goals. This online dialogue is a space for practitioners to discuss this new tool to use towards advocacy, promoting transparency around human rights issues, tracking the impact of human rights efforts, and engaging the community in local issues.
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Blog: Art spaces hosting activism & strengthening community engagement
The on-line dialogue featured freeDimensional network members sharing the creative ways in which art spaces can and do provide safe havens for activists, share technical tools and training, support and guidance, and engage in social justice issues in their communities and through fD’s social justice network.
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Blog: Using Shadow Reports for Advocacy
Shadow reports (often called 'alternative reports') are submitted to treaty monitoring bodies at the United Nations and other international institutions as an alternative to a government's official report regarding the human rights situation in its respective country. This online dialogue will be a space for practitioners and scholars to share experiences, challenges, successes, resources and tool for the effective use of shadow reports to expose the reality of the human rights situation in their countries.
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