Building constituencies
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Engaging civil society and international allies to build a united front to lobby for legal amendments

The Iraqi Civic Action Network (ICAN) led a large civil society movement by engaging national and international stakeholders to put pressure on the Iraqi parliament to integrate amendments agreed upon by the broad alliance to the law on the establishment and functioning of Iraqi non-governmental organizations (NGOs). As a result, a second draft law, based on the recommendations of the civil society organizations and reviewed by the parliament was sent to the presidency to integrate the suggested recommendations.

Building grassroots support to develop a law and lobby decision makers

Association el Amane pour le Développement de la Femme (EL AMANE) in Morocco organized 161 consultative meetings in 35 cities and villages that engaged over 1800 women in order to collect the recommendations that were included in a draft law to prevent domestic violence. Based on the statistics of civil society organizations working in support centers for women, nine out of ten women are subject to violence perpetrated by their husband. This incredible level of abuse experienced by women resulted in EL AMANE’s decision to lobby law makers to institute a law criminalizing domestic violence.

Using a comprehensive training approach to persuade police officers to transform their relationships with communities

Police brutality and torture are widespread in Brazil. What makes the problem worse is the fact that police officers are poorly paid and corruption is rampant.

Building multiple constituencies for transnational policy advocacy on indigenous issues

The Saami Council, a transnational political organization representing the indigenous Saami people native to Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, played an instrumental role in the creation of democratically-elected Saami Parliaments in Finland, Norway and Sweden over the past three decades.  It recently recognized that there is still a lack of cross-border coordination between national and

Mobilizing cultural resources to build an anti-racist youth network

Never Again (Nigdy Wiecej) is an anti-racist, anti-fascist organization created in 1992 to monitor and document racist and fascist activities, and conduct educational campaigns centered on music and sports. Never Again mobilizes cultural resources to build an anti-racist youth network in Poland.