Tactics
Tactics
Title | Intervention Type | Sector Initiating Tactic | Country or Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Mock Tribunal to Advance Change | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | Nigeria |
| Accompanying human rights activists to protect them from danger | Prevention Tactics - Physical protection | Civil society | United Kingdom |
| Action Theatre to mobilize communities for change | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | Bangladesh |
| Activating historic sites as centers for citizen engagement with human rights issues. | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | United States of America |
| Adapting traditional human rights fact-finding methodology to emerging human rights issues | Restorative Tactics - Remembering abuses | Civil society | United States of America |
| Adopting international human rights conventions at the local level to improve women's rights | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | United States of America |
| Building collaborative partnerships to develop a Local Housing Board | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | Philippines |
| Building public and media awareness to change the minimum wage and policy for sub-contract workers | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | South Korea |
| Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE)--Education Watch | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building constituencies | Bangladesh | |
| Certifying companies based on an internationally recognizable standard to improve labor conditions | Intervention Tactics - Incentive | Civil society | United States of America |
| Challenging the government to make defiance of pharmaceutical patent laws legal | Intervention Tactics - Resistance | Civil society | South Africa |
| Children in Columbia hold election | Intervention Tactics - Resistance | Civil society Intergovernmental organization | Colombia |
| Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW) | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | Kenya |
| Collaborating with the border police to prevent trafficking | Intervention Tactics - Disruption | Civil society | Nepal |
| Collecting signatures for a referendum that compels the legislature to consider human rights-based legislation | Intervention Tactics - Persuasion | Civil society | Argentina |
| Complementary Strengths: Western Psychology and Traditional Healing | Restorative Tactics - Strengthening individuals and communities | Civil society | Mozambique |
| Concentrating production of soccer balls in monitored facilities to prevent child labor | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Collaboration | Business | Pakistan |
| Creating a network of volunteers to monitor compliance with international human rights commitments at the local level | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | Slovakia (Slovak Republic) |
| Creating a written history based on oral testimony to help people in isolated communities understand the full extent of the war | Restorative Tactics - Remembering abuses | Civil society | Guatemala |
| Creating alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to prevent the involvement of the police | Prevention Tactics - Removing opportunities for abuse | Civil society | Nepal |
| Creating an assessment tool to evaluate the human rights impact of businesses | Prevention Tactics - Removing opportunities for abuse | Civil society | PRIVATE - due to security |
| Creating an online cultural repository of ancient texts | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | Asia |
| Creating human rights awareness through economic assistance | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | Bangladesh |
| Culturally sensitive materials facilitate discussion on women's rights by Muslim women | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | United States of America |
| Demonstrating outside the homes of perpetrators of abuse to generate condemnationDemonstrating outside the homes of perpetrators | Restorative Tactics - Prosecuting perpetrators | Civil society | Argentina |
| Developing a law enforcement network to promote professionalism and network rights among themselves | Prevention Tactics - Removing opportunities for abuse | Police | Liberia |
| Developing a law enforcement network to promote professionalism and network rights among themselves | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Police | Liberia |
| Developing electronic advocacy groups to influence government on issues of peace and social justice | Intervention Tactics - Disruption | Civil society | United States of America |
| Developing international monitoring and labelling coalitions | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | Germany |
| Developing pro bono services in the professional legal community | Restorative Tactics - Seeking redress | Legal community | Brazil |
| Disciplining of health care professionals reinforces ethical standards | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Health care professionals | Turkey |
| Distributing air quality testing equipment to community members to promote environmental justice | Intervention Tactics - Incentive | Civil society | United States of America |
| Embarrassing public officials to make them comply with child labor laws | Intervention Tactics - Disruption | Civil society | Asia |
| Empowering children with information, skills and formal structures to advocate for their own rights | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | India |
| Empowering the youth with democratic tools to promote coexistence | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | Israel |
| Encouraging passage of local government resolutions to influence national policy | Intervention Tactics - Persuasion | Civil society Government | United States of America |
| Engaging key stakeholders to ensure the right to HIV/AIDS education and health care services | Prevention Tactics - Sharing critical information | Other | Bangladesh |
| Engaging locally respected leaders to end customary practices that violate human rights | Intervention Tactics - Persuasion | Government | Ghana |
| Filing a civil tort action against a multi-national organization for human rights abuses that occurred as a result of a business | Intervention Tactics - Resistance | Legal community | United States of America |
| Former child laborers are reintegrated through rehabilitation centers | Restorative Tactics - Strengthening individuals and communities | Civil society | United States of America |
| Giving people the information and skills that they need to claim their rights | Prevention Tactics - Sharing critical information | Civil society | Russian Federation |
| Helping non-governmental organizations connect and support one another through Internet networks | Prevention Tactics - Sharing critical information | Civil society | PRIVATE - due to security |
| Human Rights Advocacy Utilizing Religious Perspectives and Opinion Leaders | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Government | PRIVATE - due to security |
| Human Rights Budgeting to Promote and Protect Social and Economic Rights | Prevention Tactics - Removing opportunities for abuse | Civil society | South Africa |
| Incorporating human rights education in the public school system | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | Albania |
| Independent monitoring to verify and oversee effective compliance with codes of conduct | Intervention Tactics - Incentive | Civil society | El Salvador |
| Inland Counties Online Network | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | United States of America |
| Labeling products to assure consumers child labor was not used | Intervention Tactics - Incentive | Civil society | India |
| Leveraging shareholder power to press corporations to adopt socially and environmentally responsible policies and practices | Intervention Tactics - Persuasion | Civil society | United States of America |
| Mobilizing citizens to turn off their lights everyday to protest government corruption | Intervention Tactics - Disruption | Civil society | Turkey |
| Mobilizing cultural resources to build an anti-racist youth network | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | Poland |
| Mobilizing public resources for victims of human rights violations | Restorative Tactics - Remembering abuses Restorative Tactics - Seeking redress | Civil society | Romania |
| Monitoring checkpoints to document abuses and demonstrate solidarity | Intervention Tactics - Incentive | Civil society | Israel |
| Monitoring police conduct through personal observation | Intervention Tactics - Incentive | Civil society | United States of America |
| Objector's Identity Card | Intervention Tactics - Resistance | PRIVATE - due to security | |
| Offering community education and developing alternative rites of passage to discourage Female Genital Cutting | Prevention Tactics - Removing opportunities for abuse | Civil society | Kenya |
| Offering community education and developing alternative rites of passage to discourage Female Genital Cutting | Prevention Tactics - Removing opportunities for abuse | Civil society | Africa |
| Open Memory | Restorative Tactics - Remembering abuses | Civil society | PRIVATE - due to security |
| Opening police files to victims of abuse to promote justice and healing | Restorative Tactics - Remembering abuses | Civil society | Paraguay |
| Organizing caravans to overcome militarization | Intervention Tactics - Resistance | Civil society | Colombia |
| Organizing demonstrations outside of police stations after arrests of activists | Intervention Tactics - Disruption | Civil society | Serbia |
| Organizing NGO participation in OAS meeting | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Collaboration | Civil society | PRIVATE - due to security |
| Performing independent postmortem examinations to document cases of torture | Restorative Tactics - Prosecuting perpetrators | Civil society | Kenya |
| Phasing out child labor in the garment industry and providing education for ex-workers | Intervention Tactics - Persuasion | Business | Bangladesh |
| Police Training | Prevention Tactics - Removing opportunities for abuse | Civil society | Thailand |
| Providing DNA testing and legal assistance to prisoners who may have been wrongly accused of a crime | Intervention Tactics - Disruption | Civil society | United States of America |
| Providing parents with funds that allow them to send their children to school rather than to work | Prevention Tactics - Removing opportunities for abuse | Government | Brazil |
| Reframing social justice issues through human rights education | Prevention Tactics - Sharing critical information | Civil society | United States of America |
| Reframing the issue of poverty as a human rights issue | Intervention Tactics - Disruption | Civil society | United States of America |
| Scorecard | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | United States of America |
| Service and contribution educate children about human rights | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | Norway |
| Setting up an independent commission to fight corruption | Intervention Tactics - Disruption | Government | Hong Kong |
| Sharing files on the disappeared to contribute to healing from genocide | Restorative Tactics - Remembering abuses Restorative Tactics - Strengthening individuals and communities | Civil society | Cambodia |
| Singing traditional songs in public to advocate for cultural rights | Intervention Tactics - Resistance | Civil society | Estonia |
| Supporting non-governmental organizations in their use of international mechanisms to press government for change | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Collaboration Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society Intergovernmental organization | United States of America |
| Sustainable Human Rights Communities | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | United States of America |
| Tandem©: Cross-cultural exchange between police and migrants | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | PRIVATE - due to security |
| Targeting Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to encourage the removal of discriminatory messages | Intervention Tactics - Disruption | Civil society | Japan |
| Teaching people in rural areas about their rights and connecting them to lawyers to defend those rights | Prevention Tactics - Sharing critical information | Civil society | Thailand |
| Testing for discrimination | Intervention Tactics - Incentive | Legal community | C/E Europe & Turkey |
| Training diplomats to be more sensitive to the needs of migrant populations | Prevention Tactics - Removing opportunities for abuse | Civil society | Canada |
| Training government representatives and creating working partnerships with government officials | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Collaboration | Government | Russian Federation |
| Training grassroots human rights groups in video and communications technology | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | PRIVATE - due to security |
| Training local leaders to resolve legal complaints within their own communities | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | Uganda |
| Training local level monitors to document and seek redress for human rights violations | Restorative Tactics - Seeking redress | Civil society | Mexico |
| Training local NGOs to help them build stronger relationships with the individuals they are trying to help | Restorative Tactics - Strengthening individuals and communities | Indonesia | |
| Training minorities to produce and direct community-based television programming to break down prejudices | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | Hungary |
| Training Paraprofessionals to work with torture survivors | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | PRIVATE - due to security |
| Training young people to monitor human rights. | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | Brazil |
| Using a code of conduct to protect labor rights in the garment industry | Intervention Tactics - Incentive | Civil society | Netherlands |
| Using a café to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS | Prevention Tactics - Sharing critical information | Government | Viet Nam |
| Using a nomination campaign to identify new constituencies for human rightsUsing a nomination campaign to identify new constitue | Restorative Tactics - Strengthening individuals and communities | Civil society | South Africa |
| Using a popular referendum to oppose impunity | Restorative Tactics - Strengthening individuals and communities | Civil society | Uruguay |
| Using a radio program to create informative discussions on human rights | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity | Civil society | China |
| Using a right to food framework to influence investment decisions and operations of financial institutions | Prevention Tactics - Removing opportunities for abuse | Civil society | PRIVATE - due to security |
| Using a surveillance team within brothels to rescue trafficked girls | Intervention Tactics - Disruption | Civil society | Bangladesh |
| Using civil lawsuits to seek redress for victims of torture | Restorative Tactics - Seeking redress | Civil society | United States of America |
| Using coordination among human rights groups to provide strength and reach to the movement | Intervention Tactics - Resistance | Other | Peru |
| Using cultural resources to provide an alternative to mainstream perceptions of human rights | Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness | Civil society | Egypt |
| Using forensics to investigate human rights abuses | Restorative Tactics - Remembering abuses | Civil society | Argentina |
