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Framing the message: Turning an opponent’s message into a win for Black women’s reproductive rights

Sometimes non-profit sector campaigns may actually put people’s human rights at risk. In early 2010, a pro-life organization in Atlanta, Georgia launched a campaign which called for legislation that would criminalize abortions provided to Black women. To protect and ensure reproductive rights for Black women, the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective created a counter-campaign that used the opponent’s message and brought to light its negative implications for civil and women’s rights. 

Demanding Compensation: Convincing the government to compensate victims of abuse by police, military, and armed forces personnel

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in India investigates complaints of human rights abuses and responds to verified complaints by requesting that the government provide financial compensation to victims and issue appropriate penalties to perpetrators.

Using international monitoring bodies to pressure government to address violations and establish mechanisms for protection

The Committee on the Administration of Justice succeeded in raising the issue of human rights abuses in Northern Ireland at the international level and, by doing so, brought about significant improvements in human rights conditions.

Building multiple constituencies for transnational policy advocacy on indigenous issues

The Saami Council, a transnational political organization representing the indigenous Saami people native to Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, played an instrumental role in the creation of democratically-elected Saami Parliaments in Finland, Norway and Sweden over the past three decades.  It recently recognized that there is still a lack of cross-border coordination between national and

Adopting international human rights conventions at the local level to improve women's rights

The Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights used the United Nations Convention to End Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to advocate for human rights at the local level.  Although CEDAW has not been ratified by the United States and thus cannot be invoked, WILD for Human Rights decided to apply it at the local level, in San Francisco, as a tool to combat issues such as discrimination and domestic violence.  They implemented CEDAW as a legislated municipal law with the exact wording of CEDAW; thus making it binding legally. 

Using a code of conduct to protect labor rights in the garment industry

The Netherlands-based Clean Clothes Campaign, a consortium of European trade unions and human rights and development organizations, drafted a code of conduct regarding labor rights specifically related to the garment industry that it is promoting to the business community.

Using independent monitoring to promote existing labor laws

COVERCO enforces corporate codes of conduct for working conditions in Guatemalan maquilas (factories) and in the agricultural export industry through intensive, long-term independent monitoring.

The Commission for the Verification of Corporate Codes of Conduct (COVERCO) is a nascent independent monitoring agency formed in 1997 by members of civil society groups, including professionals in law, education, business and other fields. COVERCO currently has arrangements to monitor three maquilas, one that produces items exclusively for Liz Claiborne, Inc. (LCI), one that produces for Gap Inc., and one that combines contracts for Gap Inc. and LCI.

Using documentation to draw up a ‘blacklist’ of unacceptable political candidates and moving the public to vote against them

People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) worked with a coalition of civic organizations to survey the South Korea population in order to identify criteria meant to eliminate politicians and make them ineligible for election.  Corruption in Korea was so serious that it was the foremost obstacle hindering the progress of Korean society.  Korean political parties