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notebook: Using Government Budgets as a Monitoring Tool
In this notebook we learn about how to use national and provincial government budgets as monitoring mechanisms to advance child-specific socio-economic rights. Budget monitoring allowed them to analyze how the government implements and allocates budgets to fulfill its legal obligation to help realize human rights.
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notebook: Side by Side: Protecting and encouraging threatened activists with unarmed international accompaniment
In this notebook we learn about how an international organization called Peace Brigade protects targeted organizations by sending accompaniment of international field workers. This accompaniment allows these organizations to continue to fight human rights abuses while making it harder for governments to target them because of the international presence.
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notebook: Human Rights Advocacy Utilizing Religious Perspectives and Opinion Leaders
The National Working Group for Human Rights Dissemination and Promotion
(NWG) in Indonesia developed a human rights education curriculum for
all age levels in both public and private schools. In order to create
support for such a human rights curriculum that also encompassed
religious educational institutions, an effective tactic was to engage
key and respected leaders in the development and training of the human rights curriculum.
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notebook: Complementary Strengths: Western Psychology and Traditional Healing
In this notebook, we learn about efforts to integrate and maximize
knowledge from traditional and western healing methods to reintegrate
child soldiers into communities devastated by war.
notebook: Access to Justice: Creating local level, citizen action mediation bodies to ensure human rights
The Centre for Victims of Torture (CVICT) in Nepal instituted a tactic
to circumvent the problem of police abuse through a process of
rights-based community mediation. The tactic trains local people as mediators and resources to
their communities on basic laws and human rights. In addition, it has
served as a vehicle to empower women to become community leaders by
addressing their individual and collective needs.
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