September 2008 eNewsletter
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New Tactics in Human Rights

New Tactics eNewsletter – September 24, 2008

 

IN THE NEWSROOM: Request for New Tactics Partner Grant Proposals (up to USD 6,000)

 

New Tactics in Human Rights, in partnership with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), is currently accepting partner grant proposals for 2008-2009.  The application deadline for these Partner Grants proposals is 27 October 2008. These funds are intended for human rights practitioners to share, translate, adapt and/or apply the New Tactics materials and resources for strategic and tactical innovation in local human rights struggles as well as share examples of innovative tactics with a broad range of people.  For more information, visit our website http://www.newtactics.org/grants/ned2008/rfp.

 

[For these and other announcements, please visit http://www.newtactics.org/en/Newsroom]

 

FEATURED DIALOGUE: YEAR-END REVIEW – OPEN TODAY!

 

This month, our Featured Dialogue is titled ‘Year-End Review.’ New Tactics is celebrating its one-year anniversary of its interactive website - www.newtactics.org.  We developed this inter-active website to utilize emerging technologies to foster community networking, communication and especially the exchange of ideas and experiences that will help us to better advance our broad human rights efforts.

 

Since the launch of this website, New Tactics has been hosting 'online dialogues' to serve as a space for this exchange of ideas. September's online dialogue will bring together 'featured resource practitioners' and New Tactics community members who contributed to these dialogues from the past year to reflect on their experiences with the website and the New Tactics project in general. This is also an opportunity for you, as a member of our New Tactics community, to tell us what you have found useful, what you would like to see us offer to you, or how we can make improvements to serve you better in the coming year. We are very interested in learning from you! Join the New Tactics community today to participate!

You can also send your comments via e-mail to: newtactics [at] cvt [dot] org 

 

http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/new-tactics/year-end-review

http://www.newtactics.org/user/register

 

SAVE THE DATES - UPCOMING FEATURED DIALOGUE: Using Theatre for Human Rights Education and Action - October 22 thru 29

 

This online dialogue will feature how theater is being used to promote, educate, motivate and move people to action regarding human rights, development and issues "screaming for" change.  Are you a human rights practitioner using theater in your work?  Please tell us about how you are using theater by sending us an email: newtactics [at] cvt [dot] org.

 

RESOURCES

 

New Tactics Notebooks translated into Kyrgyz

 

Citizens Against Corruption (CAC) in Kyrgyzstan translated eight tactical notebooks into Kyrgyz through the support of the 2007-08 New Tactics-NED Partnership Grant. These are now available for download on our website.  These notebooks include:

  • Access to Justice: Creating Local Level, Citizen Action Mediation Bodies to Ensure Human Rights
  • Action Theatre: Initiating Changes
  • A Region-wide Participatory Research Process to Build Participation, Awareness and Advocacy on Trade Policies
  • Familiar Tools, Emerging Issues: Adapting Traditional Human Rights Monitoring to Emerging Issues
  • Human Rights Advocacy Utilizing Religious Perspectives and Opinion Leaders: Promoting National Human Rights Education in Indonesia
  • Human Rights and the Corporation: The Development of the Human Rights Compliance Assessment
  • The Human Rights Education Program for Women: Utilizing State Resources to Promote Women's Human Rights in Turkey
  • Powerful Persuasion: Combating Traditional Practices that Violate Human Rights

 

http://www.newtactics.org/en/Notebooks/Grid

 

interTactica

 

Looking for ways to adapt a tactic to your work? Visit interTactica for helpful tips on tactic ideas and implementation. Philippe’s upcoming blog post is titled, The Whole World Stopped Watching: "Diversity of Tactics", Repression, and the RNC protests in St. Paul, Minnesota.

 

interTactica [English] http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/philippe-duhamel

interTactica [Français] http://www.newtactics.org/fr/blog/interTactica

 

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The New Tactics in Human Rights Project is an international initiative led by a diverse group of organizations and practitioners from around the world. The project is coordinated by the Center for Victims of Torture and grew out of its experience as a creator of new tactics and a treatment center that also advocates for the protection of human rights from a unique position—one of healing and reclaiming civic leadership.