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Dialogue: Training Law Enforcement for Prevention of Ill-Treatment and Torture

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Posted November 2nd, 2009 by New Tactics
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

Dialogue: Geo-mapping for human rights

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Posted October 7th, 2009 by New Tactics

"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.

Dialogue: Art spaces hosting activism & strengthening community engagement

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Posted September 2nd, 2009 by New Tactics

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.

Dialogue: Using Shadow Reports for Advocacy

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Posted August 3rd, 2009 by New Tactics
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.

Dialogue: Information Activism: Turning Information into Action

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Posted July 1st, 2009 by New Tactics

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.

Dialogue: Engaging Pro-Bono Lawyers

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Posted May 14th, 2009 by New Tactics

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.

Dialogue: Building Human Rights Cities

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Posted April 3rd, 2009 by New Tactics

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.

Dialogue: Healing of Memories: Overcoming the Wounds of History

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Posted March 11th, 2009 by New Tactics

The Institute for the Healing of Memories (IHOM) is a response to the emotional, psychological and spiritual wounds that are inflicted on nations, communities and individuals by wars, repressive regimes, human rights abuses and other traumatic events or circumstances. IHOM has developed interactive workshops that emphasize the emotional and spiritual, rather than intellectual, understanding and interpretation of the past. These processes prepare the ground for forgiveness and reconciliation between people of diverse backgrounds, races, cultures and religions. This dialogue is an opportunity to learn more about healing memories, and to share your experiences, challenges, and successes.

Dialogue: Human Trafficking: Addressing Modern Day Slavery

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Posted February 1st, 2009 by New Tactics

From prevention, intervention, and cooperation, all are important in the interconnected nature of the human trafficking problem. The many different organizations, each with a distinct purpose, must each fulfill their role in order to eliminate human trafficking. This dialogue is a space 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.

Dialogue: Documenting Violations: Choosing the Right Approach

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Posted January 9th, 2009 by New Tactics
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.