English, public awareness, education
notebook: The Human Rights Education Program for Women in Turkey
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.
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©."
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
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: Human Rights Advocacy Utilizing Religious Perspectives and Opinion Leaders
The National Working Group for Human Rights Dissemination and Promotion
(NWG) in Indonesia developed a human rights education curriculum for
all age levels in both public and private schools. In order to create
support for such a human rights curriculum that also encompassed
religious educational institutions, an effective tactic was to engage
key and respected leaders in the development and training of the human rights curriculum.
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.
notebook: Action Theatre
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.
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- Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK)
- Korean Workers Association United (KWWAU)
- Korean Women's Trade Union (KWTU)
- National Working Group for Human Rights Dissemination and Promotion (NWG)
- Human Rights Center at the University of Sarajevo
- Amnesty International (AI)
- The International Centre for Cultures and Languages (ICCL)
- The Human Rights Education Program of Women (HREP)
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