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Featured Online Dialogues

Title	Teaser	Comment count	Dates of dialogue
Tactics That Tickle: Laughing All the Way to the Win	Join us for this online dialogue featuring Tactics That Tickle: Laughing All the Way to the Win from March 24 to 30, 2010.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. Join us on March 24!	Not open yet	24 Mar 2010 - 30 Mar 2010
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!	84	24 Feb 2010 - 2 Mar 2010
Documenting Violations: Choosing the Right Approach	There are options on ways to collect, store and share your human rights data safely and effectively. This dialogue will feature practitioners that have developed database systems to document human rights violations, organizations on the ground documenting violations, and those that are training practitioners on how to choose the right approach and system for their documentation.	155	27 Jan 2010 - 2 Feb 2010
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	165	18 Nov 2009 - 24 Nov 2009
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.	116	28 Oct 2009 - 3 Nov 2009
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.	140	23 Sep 2009 - 29 Sep 2009
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.	109	26 Aug 2009 - 1 Sep 2009
Information Activism: Turning Information into Action	This on-line dialogue is a space for practitioners to share the innovative ways in which they have turned information into action with their advocacy campaigns.	124	8 Jul 2009 - 14 Jul 2009
Engaging Pro-Bono Lawyers	A major obstacle for victims of human rights abuses is gaining access to legal representation in order to file a complaint against the perpetrator. This online dialogue will be space for practitioners to share successful tactics for engaging pro-bono, or free, legal services through access to a variety of professional resources.	114	27 May 2009 - 2 Jun 2009
Building Human Rights Cities	Human Rights cities can have many benefits such as engaging in such actions as election monitoring, theater and human rights prizes. This dialogue shares how local civil society leaders, members of PDHRE network, facilitate the learning about human rights as a way of life for communities to generate innovative and exciting actions towards social and economic transformation.	132	22 Apr 2009 - 28 Apr 2009

Dialogue: Tactics That Tickle: Laughing All the Way to the Win