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notebook: Building Child Friendly Villages

This notebook will outline how the BMG approach is child-centric and ensures participation of children, making it a comprehensive programme.

Using street theater to inform the public about social issues

The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) stages informance plays—performances meant to inform—on social issues ranging from women’s rights to children’s rights across the Philippines to educate the public. With its mobile theater, PETA uses informance plays as tools to engage the public to confront important social issues that remain unaddressed.

notebook: The Power of Place: How historic sites can engage citizens in human rights issues

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.

notebook: Taking on Our Own Defense

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: Public Audiences

This notebook describes the tactics that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Peru implimented to give a voice to victims of governmental human rights abuses.  The purpose of the commission was not an investigation, rather Public Audiences provided victims the opportunity to tell their stories and rewrite history in a sense to include the abuses they suffered.

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: Open Memory

Read how Memoria Abierta (Open Memory), a human rights organization in Argentina, organizes thousands of documents related to the state terrorism and makes them accessible through an online database as a way to raise public awareness about what happened in Argentina from 1976-1983.

notebook: Making Allies

In this notebook we learn about how the Russia nongovernmental organization Citizens' Watch created relationships with key government officials to promote human rights. Citizens' Watch recognized the potential for engaging bureaucrats to advance human rights in Russia.
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