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Using a comprehensive training approach to persuade police officers to transform their relationships with communities

Police brutality and torture are widespread in Brazil. What makes the problem worse is the fact that police officers are poorly paid and corruption is rampant.

Demanding Compensation: Convincing the government to compensate victims of abuse by police, military, and armed forces personnel

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in India investigates complaints of human rights abuses and responds to verified complaints by requesting that the government provide financial compensation to victims and issue appropriate penalties to perpetrators.

Holding an international tribunal to raise awareness of and seek reparations for sexual war crimes

A network in Asia organized an international tribunal to preserve the memory of abuses that occurred decades before, and to demand compensation.

Building multiple constituencies for transnational policy advocacy on indigenous issues

The Saami Council, a transnational political organization representing the indigenous Saami people native to Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, played an instrumental role in the creation of democratically-elected Saami Parliaments in Finland, Norway and Sweden over the past three decades.  It recently recognized that there is still a lack of cross-border coordination between national and

Establishing Independent Monitoring Boards for prisons to ensure humane and just treatment

The Independent Monitoring Board in England and Wales (IMB) is not a pressure group but a constant presence in a prison, independent of the Governor, staff and prisoners, monitoring that the prison is being run according to the rules.  The IMB consists of a group of lay people living locally to a prison who are appointed by the Minister for Prisons to go into the prison, unannounced, at an

Children in Colombia hold election - organizing children as activists

In its 40 plus years of civil war, Colombia has had a long history of human rights abuses, especially against its children. One estimate says about 4,300 children die violent deaths in Colombia annually, which isn’t surprising, given over 7,000 of them serve as “soldiers” on one side or other of the conflict.