During the past month four New Tactics tactical notebook resources have been featured by interTactica and other blog post entries. Here is a brief highlighted summary:

1. The Power of Place: How Historic Sites Can Engage Citizens in Human Rights Issues by Liz Sevcenko (Available: Spanish) (Short Summary Available: Russian.) (blog post) (Discussion)
   
   
2. Powerful Persuasion:Combating Traditional Practices that Violate Human Rightsby Emile Short (Available: En Francais ) (blog post) [Photo right: Traditional Leaders]
3. Making the Global Local: Applying Global Agreements to Local Enforcement of Human Rights Laws by Columbus Igboanusi (Available: In Bangla ) (Available: In Russian ) ( blog post )
4. Expanding Access to Justice: The Instituto Pro Bono in São Paulo by Marcos Fuchs (Available: In Bangla) (Available: In Russian )( blog post )

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New Tactics eNewsletter – November 28, 2007

 FEATURED DISCUSSIONS

November-December Featured Tactical Discussion – OPEN TODAY!

 Join the New Tactics in Human Rights Community to participate in the on-line tactical discussion:

Using Mobile Phones for Action discussion begins today November 28 thru December 4, 2007. Share how you are using mobile phones to create change in your work!

Our confirmed featured practitioners will be sharing their creative uses of mobile phones and are available for your questions and comments: Evans Wafula, Africa Interactive (East Africa) and the Voices of Africa project ; Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS, a free text messaging application for NGOs; Ellene Sana, Center for Migrant Advocacy Philippines; Natasha Dokovska, Journalists for Children and Women Rights and Protection of Environment (JCWE) Macedonia; Noel Large, Interaction Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Katrin Verclas, co-founder and coordinator of MobileActive.org, a resource for practitioners using mobile phones in their social change work worldwide.

http://www.interactiveafrica.com/

http://kiwanja.net/

http://frontlinesms.kiwanja.net/

http://www.pinoy-abroad.net/lungga/index.shtml

http://www.detstvo.org.mk/

http://www.mobileactive.org/

Save the dates - Featured Discussion January 23 to 29

Protecting human rights defenders through Unarmed accompaniment will be our featured discussion topic from January 23 to 29. Confirmed featured resource person, Liam Mahoney, author of New Tactics tactical notebook, Side by Side: Protecting and encouraging threatened activists with unarmed international accompaniment. He has also authored two books, Unarmed Bodyguards (1997) with Luis Enrique Eguren, and Proactive Presence (2006).

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

 RESOURCES

The featured resource for this month’s tactical discussion is the tactical notebook, Sending Out an SMS by Anneke Bosman, Amnesty International-Netherlands.

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

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. Read his great summary on “Sending Out an SMS” for this month’s tactical discussion.

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

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

IN THE NEWSROOM: Fellowship and Scholarship Competition

Oak Human Rights Fellowship: Human Rights and Journalism - Deadline 15 December 2007

The Oak Institute at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, USA, has issued a call for nominations for the 2008 Oak Human Rights Fellowship. The Oak Institute seeks one front line human rights practitioner working as a journalist outside of the United States for residence at Colby in the fall of 2008. The Oak Fellowship annually offers an opportunity for one prominent practitioner in international human rights to take a sabbatical from work to spend the fall semester (September - December) in residence at Colby College. This programme provides the fellow time for respite, reflection, research and writing. For more information, visit http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/goldfarb/oak.

Scholarship Competition: Legal and Political Environment for Civil Society - Deadline January 31, 2008

The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) and Cordaid have announced a competition to encourage scholarship on the legal and political environment for civil society, with a focus on civil liberties. Manuscripts should contain between 5,000 and 25,000 words. One person will be chosen for the ICNL-Cordaid Civil Liberties Prize of US $15,000. Two other participants will receive Distinguished Research Awards of US $5,000 each. In addition, selected manuscripts will be published in ICNL’s online journal. Scholarship from all regions is welcome. Visit www.icnl.org/prize.

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