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Send to friendNew Tactics eNewsletter – November 19, 2008
FEATURED DIALOGUE: Human Rights in Higher Education:Incorporating practical experience – OPEN TODAY!
This month's online dialogue will feature HumanRights in Higher Education: Incorporating practical experience. Advancing human rights education, atall levels of the education system, is critical for building public awareness,understanding and cultures that foster human rights. This dialogue will featureideas, experiences and methods from higher education programs for incorporatingpractical experience into their human rights curriculums to better prepare thenext generation of human rights advocates. Are you a human rights student? Aneducator? Interested in learning more? Jointhis online dialogue to learn more and share your own stories and resources!
http://www.newtactics.org/user/register
RESOURCES
New Tactics Resources for Educators
Are you an educator looking for ways to incorporate practical humanrights experience into your classroom? Please come and see our newest collectionof resources for educators. We have developed several guides and classroommodules to help you integrate the New Tactics tools and resources into yourclassroom. Read more about these resources on our New Tactics for Educators page!
http://www.newtactics.org/en/educators
Stories of Impact: New Tactics in Action!
Are you curious to know what kind of impact New Tactics has on humanrights work? Are you wondering how practitioners have used the New Tacticsresources? Read stories from practitioners on how they have used the NewTactics tools and resources on our New Tactics inAction! page – and share your own story!
http://www.newtactics.org/en/new-tactics-in-action
interTactica – “Human Rights: Anything but Academic”
White-supremacist graffiti were found at Colgate University on the sameday the United States elected its first African American president. It's beenless than a week, and I am standing in front of an overflowing chapel on thisall-american "Hidden Ivy" campus, with over a thousand people whohave congregated here to denounce such symbols of a deep, ongoing strand of racism.The midday sun is as dim as the air is crisp, but the chill comes fromelsewhere: the bigoted scribbles were part of hundreds of race threats andcrimes committed around the same time across the US. Read more at interTactica…
interTactica [English] http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/philippe-duhamel
interTactica[Français] http://www.newtactics.org/fr/blog/interTactica
IN THE NEWSROOM: Scholarship
Thank you for all of your New Tactics – NED partner grant proposals! Wereceived over 180 proposals from over 50 countries. Applicants will be notifiedby December 1, 2008 if they are selected.
USAIDDevelopment 2.0 Challenge - Submission deadline 28 November 2008
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is sponsoring a challengeto find the best in mobile innovations for good. Through a NetSquared communityvote, fifteen finalists will be chosen. For more information, visit http://www.netsquared.org/usaid.
Call fornominations for young humanitarian - Deadline 30 November 2008
The Charles Bronfman Prize has launched its 2009 award cycle, markingthe start of this year's international quest for extraordinary, younghumanitarians. The Prize celebrates the vision and talent of an individual orteam under 50 years of age, whose humanitarian work has contributedsignificantly to the betterment of the world. For more information, visit http://www.TheCharlesBronfmanPrize.com
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The New Tactics in Human RightsProject is an international initiative led by a diverse group oforganizations and practitioners from around the world. The project iscoordinated by the Center for Victims of Tortureand grew out of its experience as a creator of new tactics and a treatmentcenter that also advocates for the protection of human rights from a uniqueposition—one of healing and reclaiming civic leadership.
