Asia Regional Training Workshop

Date: August 5-11, 2005
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Partner: Forum-Asia

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Program Overview
In partnership with FORUM-ASIA, the New Tactics in Human Rights Project’s Asia Regional Training Workshop was held August 5-11, 2005 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The workshop was an initiative to engage innovative human rights practitioners from the Asia region (South, South-east, and North-east) in sharing and developing ideas, practices, knowledge and skills to further the effectiveness of efforts to advance human rights. The objectives of the workshop were to bring together a diverse group of practitioners:

• To exchange valuable tactical and strategic experiences;
• To learn new ideas and expand networks of collaboration;
• To develop skills, including those of tactical and strategic thinking; and
• To utilize tactical training materials to facilitate the sharing of tactics and, ultimately, help practitioners more effectively advance human rights.

A total of 50 people from 20 countries participated in the workshop. They are at the forefront of implementing creative methodologies and have dealt with the challenges of creating, implementing and developing tactics. We are confident that the process of learning, thinking and discussing tactics will aid these activists in developing new ideas and possibilities to further human rights.

• methodology
• interactive schedule
• participant list
• participant interviews
• transferability reports
• photo gallery
• workshop reflections

About Forum-Asia

The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia) is a regional human rights organization based in Bangkok, Thailand. A product of the 1991 Asian Human Rights Organizations Meeting, Forum-Asia serves as a regional human rights organization in Asia. Currently, Forum-Asia has 36 syndicates in South, Southeast as well as Northeast Asia, namely in Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand. Forum-Asia focuses on the protection of human rights in Asia through the cooperation and sharing of information among human rights organizations in the region. In order to promote the adherence to human rights standards, Forum-Asia is involved in the implementation of various training programs for both human rights standards and UN mechanisms.