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Using parallel international and national lobbying channels to address discrimination

AZETTA used international lobbying to leverage national lobbying channels in a timely manner in order to address discrimination targeting the Amazigh community in Morocco, making it possible for Moroccan citizens to use the Amazigh language to name their children.

Building allies with government institutions and port communities to prevent human trafficking and protect victims

Visayan Forum, Inc. (VF), in co-operation with the Philippine Ports Authority, runs eight unique halfway house facilities in strategic ports throughout the country’s archipelago. In addition to providing center-based services to vulnerable migrants, this partnership helps to intervene to combat human trafficking in these seaports by intercepting potential victims of trafficking and apprehending suspected traffickers.

Using zero rupee notes to protest prevalence of bribery in public service sectors

The Anti Corruption movement, 5th Pillar recently began distributing “Zero Rupee” notes to Indian citizens to give to any civil servant they come across that asks for a bribe. Corruption in the form of bribery is commonplace in India particularly in Chennai where the campaign began, and the Zero Rupee Note serves as a protest of this trend. 

Protecting freedom of thought and the right to privacy by destroying records that could be demanded by the government

In the United States, a national professional organization is increasing its efforts to prevent potential infringements of privacy rights and intellectual freedom by making sure that as few records as possible are kept.

Traditionally, librarians throughout the United States have prevented restrictions on intellectual freedom by destroying unnecessary library records as soon as possible.

Workers Saving their Factories and Saving their Jobs: Using an expropriation law to ensure economic rights are protected

When businesses close and jobs disappear, individuals, families and communities risk falling into poverty. In Argentina’s recent economic downturn, many businesses have closed or gone bankrupt.

Workers in Argentina have tried to prevent job losses by refusing to stop working when their employers’ businesses go bankrupt.

Using a volunteer-based mobile phone network to prevent street violence

In the seemingly intractable conflict in Northern Ireland, finding common ground between politicized Catholic and Protestant factions has often proven nearly impossible. And yet there are people on both sides who want to prevent outbreaks of violence. This tactic involves identifying leaders in each community who want to prevent violence and arming them with needed information.

Establishing Independent Monitoring Boards for prisons to ensure humane and just treatment

The Independent Monitoring Board in England and Wales (IMB) is not a pressure group but a constant presence in a prison, independent of the Governor, staff and prisoners, monitoring that the prison is being run according to the rules.  The IMB consists of a group of lay people living locally to a prison who are appointed by the Minister for Prisons to go into the prison, unannounced, at an

Creating a child board and village child protection networks to combat child abuse and trafficking

At the beginning of 2005, Enfants & Developpement (E&D) set up a Participatory Child Protection Project in 6 communes covering 126 villages.

Creating a public forum where the police and ordinary citizens can work together to resolve grievances

The CLEEN Foundation, formally Centre for Law Enforcement Education in Nigeria, created public forums where citizens and police can discuss concerns and grievances regarding crime and police conduct.

Pairing police with refugees and migrants to develop understanding and reduce discrimination

In 1999, the International Centre for Cultures and Languages (Internationales Zentrum für Kulturen und Sprachen) in Austria developed a program that pairs police officers with an immigrant or refugee to foster positive relations between the police force and the foreign-born population. While educating the officers about citizens who they may have held negative stereotypes about, this program also gives the refugees and immigrants an opportunity to communicate with the officers about racial profiling and other racial issues.