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Send to friendNew Tactics eNewsletter - February 2008FEATURED DISCUSSION: Engaging the Media in Human Rights – OPEN March 26 - April 1
Engaging the media in human rights is an on-going challenge and opportunity. The media play a critical role in civil society as carriers of information about how people behave, and consequently, have the ability to influence how people behave. These roles create a unique opportunity for human rights practitioners to communicate with a larger audience than otherwise possible. The challenge is to tap into this resource – and engage the media. Join our featured resource people and share your own experiences, insights and questions (www.newtactics.org).
Our featured resource people include:
- Alan Davis, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, currently heads up IWPR’s development and programme work in Asia.
- Philippe Duhamel, writes the interTactica blog on the New Tactics website in English and French from Canada.
- Mufuliat Fijabi, Senior Programme Officer, BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights in Nigeria.
- Davinder Kumar, journalist from India now relocated in London, with over 10 years experience working in the field of human rights.
- Sharon Lamwaka, Communications and Advocacy Officer, African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (ACTV) in Uganda.
SAVE THE DATES - Featured Discussion March 26 to April
1 – Truth and Reconciliation Processes
Our next discussion will focus on a variety of ways in which Truth and Reconciliation processes have and are being implemented. We will have an opportunity to connect, discuss and share with people who have carried out a variety of roles related to TRC processes.
RESOURCES
Our New Tactics featured resources for February include a variety of tactical notebooks that used the engagement of media to highly benefit the outcome of tactics. The engagement of media is very often a support tactic to ensure the desired impact of another tactic. For great ideas on how to engage the media, please see these tactical notebooks written by our some of our February featured resource practitioners as well as other New Tactics network members:
- A Mock Tribunal to Advance Change by By Mufuliat Fijabi, BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, Nigeria (February Featured Resource Person)
- The Dilemma Demonstration by Philippe Duhamel (February Featured Resource Person)
- Engaging the Media - Presentations from the New Tactics Liberia Workshop (February 2007), Sharon Lamwaka, ACTV, Uganda (February Featured Resource Person) and Victor Bwire, previous Communications and Advocacy Coordinator at the Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU), Kenya
- Engaging the Media: Building support for minimum wage reform by Jee Hyeon Kim, Korean Women Workers Associations United (KWWAU)
The New Tactics in Human Rights project is very excited to introduce the newest member of our team, Kristin Antin – our Online Community Builder. If you didn’t have a chance to see our front page website feature on Kristin, you can use this link to read an informal interview we recently conducted with her. http://www.newtactics.org/interview_with_kristin
interTactica
Looking for
ways to understand your allies and opponents? Philippe Duhamel has written a great
example about engaging the media using an easy to use tool. For more
information, go to his Know
your Allies: A Strategy Tool interTactica blog
post. Available en Français.
IN THE NEWSROOM: Fellowships, Scholarships, and Prizes
2008 Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism - Deadline: June 1, 2008
The goal of the Kurt Schork Memorial Awards is to recognize and assist freelance and local journalists who make such a critical contribution to international understanding but whose work is often overlooked. For more information, go to http://www.iwpr.net/index.php?apc_state=henh&s=o&o=top_ksa.html
WITNESS - Video Advocacy Institute (VAI) applications - Deadline: March 2, 2008
The Video Advocacy Institute, the first of its kind, is an innovative program that trains human rights defenders to successfully integrate video advocacy into their social change campaigns. For more information, go to www.witness.org/vai
[For these and other announcements, please visit http://www.newtactics.org/en/Newsroom]
