New Tactics eNewsletter - December 19, 2007
SURVEY: MOBILE TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
We need your help! New Tactics is collaborating with the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation, and working in consultation with MobileActive.org, in conducting a global survey to gauge the extent of mobile technology use by nonprofit organizations/NGOs in carrying out their work.
The survey will capture vital data on the opportunities and challenges offered by the 'mobile revolution' in addressing urgent social and environmental needs. Your input is critical!
Survey results will be released in February and will inform the work of civil society organizations, researchers, technology developers, and donors worldwide.
Click here to participate in the survey or copy and paste this URL in your browser: http://stratalys.com/sss2/index.php?s07112&c=7
http://stratalys.com/sss2/deploy.php?s07112&c=7
SAVE THE DATES - Featured Discussion January 23 to 29 - Unarmed Accompaniment
Protecting human rights defenders through Unarmed accompaniment will be our featured discussion topic from January 23 to 29. Our currently confirmed featured resource practitioners are: Liam Mahony, Peace Brigades International and author of the New Tactics tactical notebook, Side by Side: Protecting and encouraging threatened activists with unarmed international accompaniment; and David Grant, Director, Nonviolent Peaceforce - Washington office. Join the New Tactics community today so you can share your experiences, ideas and questions.
http://www.newtactics.org/en/SidebySide
http://www.peacebrigades.org/home.html
http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/
http://www.newtactics.org/user/register
RESOURCES
Philippe Duhamel's blog features great summaries of New Tactics resource materials and helpful tips about how advocates can put these ideas to work. Available en Français. In his most recent post, International Human Rights Day: Dignity and justice for all of us, Philippe highlights the following Tactical Notebooks:
- Human Rights and the Corporation
- Human Rights Advocacy Utilizing Religious Perspectives and Opinion Leaders
- The Human Rights Education Program for Women in Turkey
- International Monitoring Bodies
- Rebuilding Communities
interTactica [English] http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/philippe-duhamel
interTactica [Français] http://www.newtactics.org/fr/blog/interTactica
http://www.newtactics.org/en/HumanRightsandtheCorporation
http://www.newtactics.org/en/HumanRightsAdvocacy
http://www.newtactics.org/en/TheHumanRightsEducationProgramforWomen
http://www.newtactics.org/en/InternationalMonitoringBodies
http://www.newtactics.org/en/RebuildingCommunities
IN THE NEWSROOM: Summits and Forums
2nd Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge - Deadline 15 January 2008
Africa First LLC of Minnesota, USA, in association with and with the support of the Ghana Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, UNAIDS Ghana Office, Ghana AIDS Commission and Esperanza Medicines Foundation invite all to the 2nd Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge in Accra, Ghana. For more information, visit http://africa-first.com/2hivsummit2008/ (scroll down to view content).
11th AWID International Forum on Women's Rights in Development - Deadline 28 January 2008
The Association for Women's Rights in Development is an international membership organization that works to strengthen the voice, impact and influence of women's rights advocates, organizations and movements internationally to effectively advance the rights of women. Over 1,500 women's rights leaders and activists from around the world will converge on Cape Town, South Africa at the 11th AWID International Forum to discuss the power of movements. For more information, visit http://www.awid.org/forum08/submit_proposal_instructions.html.
World Social Forum - Make it happen: January 26th Global Day of Action - www.wsf2008.net
The website www.wsf2008.net is on line until January 26th, the Global Day of Action. The website is the main communication tool for organizing actions as well as the main source of information about the World Social Forum 2008.
[For these and other announcements, please visit http://www.newtactics.org/en/Newsroom]
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