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Got a question? Got an idea? Need some advice? Want to connect with other people doing human rights work? The New Tactics dialogues area is a collection of community member blogs, and is the right place for all of those things. Join an ongoing discussion. Start a new one. Agree. Disagree. This is a forum that will help you discover and shape ideas for your work.

Share your experiences, challenges and resources by participating in our featured dialogues! Featured dialogues are hosted monthly and focus on a particular tactic or issue-area. These dialogues are led by featured resource practitioners with experience to share. Add updates to past dialogues. Share experiences and ask questions in current dialogues. Save the dates of future dialogues.

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Featured Online Dialogues

Title	Teaser	Comment count	Dates of dialogue
Using Budgets for Monitoring	New Tactics is pleased to host this featured dialogue on 'Using Budgets for Monitoring' from February 24 to March 2, 2010. This online dialogue will be a space for practitioners using, and training others to use, government budgets to monitor the implementation of human rights commitments. Please join us on February 24!	Not open yet	24 Feb 2010 - 2 Mar 2010
Documenting Violations: Choosing the Right Approach	Thank you for your contributions to this important on-line dialogue featuring Documenting Violations: Choosing the Right Approach that ran from January 27 to February 2, 2010. It's not too late to share your questions, ideas, resources and experiences!	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	New Tactics is pleased to feature 'Geo-Mapping for Human Rights,’ as the topic of our October featured online dialogue from October 28 – November 3, 2009. Join New Tactics, our co-moderator, Christian Kreutz, and our featured resource practitioners in a conversation about the ways in which geographical mapping has been used to share critical information, promote transparency and engage communities. It's not too late to add your comments!	117	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.	139	23 Sep 2009 - 29 Sep 2009
Using Shadow Reports for Advocacy	Join New Tactics, co-moderator Jovana Vukovic and the featured resource practitioners for an online dialogue on 'Using Shadow Reports for Advocacy' from August 26 to September 1, 2009. 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	Join New Tactics featured resource practitioners from April 22 to 28 for an on-line dialogue featuring "Building Human Rights Cities." Join us to share how communities learn about human rights as a way of life and generate innovative and exciting social and economic transformation.	132	22 Apr 2009 - 28 Apr 2009
Human Trafficking: Addressing Modern Day Slavery	New Tactics will feature a dialogue on "Human trafficking: Addressing modern day slavery" beginning February 25 to March 3, 2009. This is an opportunity to share tactics and methods that are having some impact and success on the issue of human trafficking as well as discuss alternative and creative strategies that could be applied locally and globally.	164	25 Feb 2009 - 3 Mar 2009

Dialogue: Using Budgets for Monitoring