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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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- Citizens' Watch
- Memoria Abierta (Documentary Heritage Program)
- Liberian National Law Enforcement Association (LINLEA)
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
- Human Rights Defense Network
- The Lower East Side Tenement Museum
- International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience
- Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA)
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