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Using the budgetary process to work for equity and social justice

The Centre for Budget Advocacy (CBA) is a program operated by the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) in Ghana.

Using Online Rural News to Connect Village Society

Amader Gramer Khobor is a first-of-its-kind online rural news service that covers daily happenings in village society, as no online news service in Bangladesh practices rural journalism with the provisions of time-to-time updating in the same day.  Amader Gramer Khobor, part of Amader Gram which means “Our Village Development Project,” is unique and effective because through this tactic, v

Using documentation to draw up a ‘blacklist’ of unacceptable political candidates and moving the public to vote against them

People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) worked with a coalition of civic organizations to survey the South Korea population in order to identify criteria meant to eliminate politicians and make them ineligible for election.  Corruption in Korea was so serious that it was the foremost obstacle hindering the progress of Korean society.  Korean political parties

Human Rights Advocacy Utilizing Religious Perspectives and Opinion Leaders

The Indonesian government, in cooperation with academics, the National Commission on Human Rights, Department of Education, and Department of Religious Affairs, set up a National Working Group for Human Rights Dissemination and Promotion (NWG) to implement nation-wide human rights education.  The core human rights curriculum developed by the NWG is being integrated into the education syste

Building public and media awareness to change the minimum wage and policy for sub-contract workers

The minimum wage system was introduced to the Korean labor market in 1988 as a buffer against income gaps. However, it has not performed well in this function as the legal amount was set too low. Furthermore, it often served employers' interest to fix low wages.

Using a popular referendum to oppose impunity

Comisión Nacional Pro-Referéndum (CNR) organized a referendum in Uruguay for the public to vote on the congressional decision to grant impunity to human rights abusers employed by the military.