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Dialogue: Truth and Reconciliation Processes: Aiding community healing through addressing impunity

Posted March 11th, 2008 by New Tactics

March 26 - April 1

New Tactics in Human Rights’ featured online discussion for March focused on ways in which Truth and Reconciliation processes have and are being implemented to aid community healing. It is not too late to connect, discuss and share with New Tactics’ resource people who have served in a variety of roles related to TRC processes. Join our featured resource people NOW and share your own experiences, insights and questions.

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Dialogue: Engaging the Media in Human Rights

Posted February 26th, 2008 by New Tactics
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Engaging the media in human rights is an on-going challenge and opportunity. Join our featured resource people and share your own experiences, insights and questions.

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Dialogue: Using Mobile Phones for Action

Posted November 27th, 2007 by New Tactics
Mobile technology is being used by citizens all over the world. Join these outstanding resource practitioners to share and discuss "Using Mobile Phones for Action". What's this?

notebook: Uncovering the Evidence

In this notebook we learn about the ways in which forensic science can unearth human rights abuses from the past and bring closure to families as well as truth to the judicial process.  The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team has been training human rights NGOs to use forensic tools to advance investigations.  Through this science one can tell if a person was tortured, if the death was accidental or intentional and they can try to indentify the person.

notebook: Together We Are Stronger

Peru’s Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (National Coordinator for Human Rights, CNDDHH) is globally recognized as one of the most successful and effective coalitions in the world. This notebook analyzes the characteristics of a strong coalition and shows how to successfully fight against an authoritarian government, like that of Fujimori in Peru the 1990s.

notebook: Taking on Our Own Defense

The model raised by the Network of Community Defenders constructs a new tactic in the defense of human rights. It proposes that victims and their communities become involved by electing their own defenders.

notebook: Sending Out an SMS: A rapid-response mobile phone network engages a youth constituency to stop torture fast

In this notebook text-messages and short message services are used to engage young people to quickly stop torture.  Amnesty International-Netherlands recognized that text-messaging was an easy medium to use to reach out to youth.  It was successfully used to protest torture when the Democratic Republic of Congo arrested a journalist. 

notebook: Side by Side: Protecting and encouraging threatened activists with unarmed international accompaniment

In this notebook we learn about how an international organization called Peace Brigade protects targeted organizations by sending accompaniment of international field workers.  This accompaniment allows these organizations to continue to fight human rights abuses while making it harder for governments to target them because of the international presence.

notebook: Reparations

In this notebook we learn how civil laws can be used to hold torturers and other human rights abusers accountable, and to gain reparations for survivors.

notebook: Public Audiences

This notebook describes the tactics that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Peru implimented to give a voice to victims of governmental human rights abuses.  The purpose of the commission was not an investigation, rather Public Audiences provided victims the opportunity to tell their stories and rewrite history in a sense to include the abuses they suffered.
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