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.

In this notebook we learn about how effective and beneficial building collaborative relationships with government institutions can be to advancing human rights education. Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR)-New Ways in Turkey gained the support and use of government resources for furthering human rights education of women at the local level.

In this notebook we learn about how museums are innovating ways to keep history alive so that the public can remember and talk about what happened in the past.  The International Coalition of Historic Site Museums transforms places of passive learning into places of active citizenship and engagement.

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. 

This notebook describes how two US nongovernmental organizations developed training to increase the capacity of companies to build more effective relationships with indigenous peoples.  First Peoples Worldwide and Business for Social Responsibility sought to bring the rights of indigenous peoples to the forefront and encourage businesses to do the same.

In this notebook, we learn about some of the most difficult human rights violations to eradicate–customary or traditional practices based on deep-seated beliefs, particularly those with a spiritual dimension. Respected leaders–at local and national levels–engaged in direct dialogue with perpetrators, victims, other community leaders, and the community at large to facilitate understanding of the practice, while providing alternatives and avenues for abandoning the practice without losing status.

The goal of Action Theatre is to develop the capacities of young people and cultural activists at the grassroots level to be a force for change.  Action Theatre helps to create a society based on human rights, gender equity and social justice.

This notebook describes how Never Again (nigdy Wiecej), a Polish anti-racism group uses a number of tactics to attract volunteers and spread information about hate crimes and racism in Poland.  Never again targets young people through concerts and football games and recruits them to join the cause.  Some of these volunteers become correspondents that collect and publish information about racism in Poland and send this information to the media. This tactic encourages the spread of information for general education.

In this notebook a strong message was sent to theTurkish government when 30 million people turned off their lights for a full minute.  With this simple action the people of Turkey began to speak out against government corruption and break the cylce of fear and apathy.  Turning off lights turned into stronger forms of protest and became the biggest public protest against corruption in Turkish history.