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notebook: A Call to End Corruption: One Minute of Darkness for Constant Light

A Call to End Corruption

By Ezel Akay Download full notebook below.

notebook: A Call to End Corruption: One Minute of Darkness for Constant Light

A Call to End Corruption

By Ezel Akay Download full notebook below.

notebook: A Call to End Corruption: One Minute of Darkness for Constant Light

A Call to End Corruption

By Ezel Akay Download full notebook below.

notebook: Right to Know, Right to Live: Building a campaign for the right to information and accountability

This notebook shares how Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) has been deeply involved in a collective process which has shaped and influenced the Campaign for the Right to Information in India. MKSS makes the case that without access to information and transparency there can be no genuine participation of all members of society, particularly the poor, in democracy. The right to know and actual transparency of information provides the ability to demand and access rights.

notebook: The Dilemma Demonstration: Using nonviolent civil disobedience to put the government between a rock and a hard place

In this notebook we learn about the dilemma-demonstration tactic that was used by a Canadian organization to convince the government to release information that the public had a right to see.  They put pressure on the government by creating a climactic moment that brought media attention onto the issue and embarrassed the government.

notebook: Tandem©: Cross-cultural exchange between police and migrants

The international Centre for Cultures and Languages (ICCL) in Vienna adapted the "TANDEM©" program– originally created for language learning– to human rights education with police and migrant populations in a unique and profound way called "intercultural-TANDEM©."  The result has been "Tandem© Learning", a cultural contact program that improves intercultural understanding.

Tandem©: Cross-Cultural Exchange Between Police and Migrants

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: Making Sense of the Information Wilderness: Library and Information Services for the Improvement of Human Rights Work

In this notebook we learn about how effective libraries and librarians can promote human rights by providing information to people in places where reliable sources are lacking.

notebook: Engaging the Media: Building support for minimum wage reform

The Korean Women Workers Associations United (KWWAU) and its partners effectively engaged media to raise public awareness and concern regarding the minimum wage system, thereby assisting in the creation of a social movement that has succeeded in changing the minimum wage law to afford greater protections for workers, especially for women.