In this notebook we learn about how to use national and provincial government budgets as monitoring mechanisms to advance child-specific socio-economic rights. Budget monitoring allowed them to analyze how the government implements and allocates budgets to fulfill its legal obligation to help realize human rights.
Legal Studies
notebook: Using Popular Theater to Break the Silence Around Violence Against Women
In this notebook, theatre is used to break the silence surrounding violence against women in Senegal. Theatre provides an outlet for the public to talk openly about human rights abuses that were normally considered only a "familial problem."
notebook: Uncovering the Evidence: The forensic sciences in human rights
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 National Coordinating Coalition on Human Rights
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: Testing for Discrimination: Identifying and Prosecuting Human Rights Abuses
In this notebook we learn about how an organization in Hungary tests for and documents incidences of systematic discrimination against a disenfranchised population. When an instance of discrimination is reported, this organization will send out testers find out whether or not this discrimination was systematic and then document their findings.
notebook: Taking on Our Own Defense: The Chiapas Network of Community Human Rights Defenders
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: Reparations: Using civil lawsuits to obtain reparation for survivors of human rights abuses and to challenge the impunity of their abusers
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: Promoting Human Rights Professionalism in the Liberian Police Force
In this notebook, we learn about the efforts, ability, and commitment of law enforcement personnel–one of the most difficult groups to reach regarding human rights–to address and confront human rights issues and violations from their own perspective and within their own ranks.
notebook: Making the State Pay: Mobilizing Public Resources for Victims of Human Rights Violations
This notebook describes how one organization (ICAR) in Romania was able to pressure the government to accept its moral and legal obligation to provide care to torture victims. The group had international support but they recognized that it was the states responsibility to rehabilitate this socially marginalized group.
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