New Tactics December: Mobile Phone Technology and Human Rights

New Tactics eNewsletter - December 19, 2007

SURVEY: MOBILE TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

We need your help! New Tactics is collaborating with
the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation, and
working in consultation with MobileActive.org, in conducting a global
survey to gauge the extent of mobile technology use by nonprofit
organizations/NGOs in carrying out their work.

The survey will capture vital data on the opportunities and challenges
offered by the 'mobile revolution' in addressing urgent social and
environmental needs. Your input is critical!

 

Survey
results will be released in February and will inform the work of civil
society organizations, researchers, technology developers, and donors
worldwide.

Click here to participate in the survey or copy and paste
this URL in your browser: http://stratalys.com/sss2/index.php?s07112&c=7

http://stratalys.com/sss2/deploy.php?s07112&c=7

 

SAVE THE
DATES - Featured
Discussion January 23 to 29 - Unarmed Accompaniment

Protecting human rights defenders through Unarmed accompaniment will be our featured discussion topic from
January 23 to 29. Our currently confirmed featured resource practitioners
are: Liam Mahony, Peace Brigades International and author of the
New Tactics tactical notebook, Side by Side: Protecting and encouraging
threatened activists with unarmed international accompaniment; and David Grant,
Director, Nonviolent Peaceforce - Washington office. Join
the New Tactics community today so you can share your experiences, ideas and
questions.

 

http://www.newtactics.org/en/SidebySide

http://www.peacebrigades.org/home.html

http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/

http://www.cpt.org/

http://www.newtactics.org/user/register

RESOURCES

 

interTactica

Philippe
Duhamel's blog features great summaries of New Tactics resource materials and
helpful tips about how advocates can put these ideas to work. Available en Français. In his most recent post, International Human Rights Day: Dignity and justice
for all of us, Philippe highlights the following Tactical Notebooks:

 

interTactica
[English] http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/philippe-duhamel

interTactica
[Français] http://www.newtactics.org/fr/blog/interTactica

 

http://www.newtactics.org/en/HumanRightsandtheCorporation

http://www.newtactics.org/en/HumanRightsAdvocacy

http://www.newtactics.org/en/TheHumanRightsEducationProgramforWomen

http://www.newtactics.org/en/InternationalMonitoringBodies

http://www.newtactics.org/en/RebuildingCommunities

IN THE
NEWSROOM: Summits and Forums

 

2nd Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge - Deadline 15 January 2008

Africa First LLC of Minnesota, USA, in association with and with the support of the Ghana Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, UNAIDS Ghana Office, Ghana AIDS Commission and Esperanza Medicines Foundation invite all to the 2nd Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge in Accra, Ghana. For more information, visit http://africa-first.com/2hivsummit2008/ (scroll down to view content).

 

11th
AWID International Forum on Women's Rights in Development - Deadline 28 January
2008

The
Association for Women's Rights in Development is an international membership
organization that works to strengthen the voice, impact and influence of women's
rights advocates, organizations and movements internationally to effectively
advance the rights of women. Over 1,500 women's rights leaders and activists
from around the world will converge on Cape
Town, South Africa
at the 11th AWID International Forum to discuss the power of movements. For
more information, visit http://www.awid.org/forum08/submit_proposal_instructions.html.

 

World Social Forum - Make it happen: January 26th Global Day of Action -
www.wsf2008.net
The website www.wsf2008.net is on line until January
26th, the Global Day of Action. The website is the main communication tool for
organizing actions as well as the main source of information about the World
Social Forum 2008.

 

[For these
and other announcements, please visit http://www.newtactics.org/en/Newsroom]

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The New Tactics in Human Rights
Project is an international initiative led by a diverse group of
organizations and practitioners from around the world. The project is
coordinated by the Center for Victims of Torture
and grew out of its experience as a creator of new tactics and a treatment
center that also advocates for the protection of human rights from a unique
position-one of healing and reclaiming civic leadership.

 

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