Human rights advocates come in many forms. Whether they are working to alleviate hunger, to clean up the environment or to clean up politics; whether their focus is on children, women or minorities, the common thread is that all are working to build a world in which all human beings live in dignity and security. The international agreements, conventions and treaties signed in the past few decades are a positives step, but they alone are not enough. Individuals and communities need to understand the rights codified in those agreements - the rights, for example, to equal protection before the law, freedom of movement or freedom from torture - and how to claim them. Other tactics focus on abuses that are imminent or ongoing, or on repairing the damage of past abuses. The tactics in this category are, for the most part, longer-term approaches, ones that strengthen the human rights culture and respect for human rights. They do this by getting new people and groups involved in human rights work, which not only increases what we are able to accomplish, but adds legitimacy to the movement. They do this by getting the right people and groups together, people who, as allies, can do more than the sum of their work as individuals. They do this by creating a broad awareness of the existence of these rights and their violations and persuading people to recognize abuse and define it as unacceptable in a civilized world. Some of these address a particular problem or focus on a particular right, but many have a broader goal: building the groundwork, institutions, alliances, awareness and attitudes that make possible the protection of all human rights.