Peru’s Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (National Coordinator for Human Rights, CNDDHH) is globally recognized as one of the most successful and effective coalitions in the world. This notebook analyzes the characteristics of a strong coalition and shows how to successfully fight against an authoritarian government, like that of Fujimori in Peru the 1990s.
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Blog: Understanding Advocates: An Audio Interview with Mary Ellingen
Mary Ellingen, interview featured here, is a staff attorney at The Advocates for Human Rights in Minneapolis. Mary specializes in the Women's Program at The Advocates, and has done a lot of work in the area of domestic violence; the Women's Program has really made tracks in assisting countries with reforming their legal systems to better protect women in their private environments. In this interview she offers us some insight into her early feminist motivations that brought her here, as well as a number of unique challenges that women's issues and their advocates face.
Domesticating International Human Rights Law
Join New Tactics for an on-line Tactical Dialogue on Domesticating International Human Rights Law from October 27 to November 2, 2010. Local human rights groups and practitioners have done tremendous work in translating/adopting human rights standards/principles in their day to day work. This dialogue provides an opportunity for these practitioners and groups to learn from each other and share their novel and innovative approaches in domesticating international human rights laws/standards.
Blog: Bringing the law home: Domesticating the Convention Against Torture
Compliance with international human rights treaties is notoriously unreliable when it comes to the states parties that have signed on to them. The UN Convention Against Torture (CAT) is one such treaty.
Blog: Significance of law enforcement officers training
Generally, training is a heart topic of development in any field, as it brings to practice most recent successful methodologies of doing things, and it also relates practices to theories in a homogenous way, it goes beyond doubt that training has a similar importance to bring both legal & human-rights imperativeness knowledge to law enforcement officers( later cited as LEOs), training here is a multi-layer process of upgrading the awareness and enriching performance methodologies mainly at the police level, it helps a lot when the personnel are of common understanding of their obligations in terms of the service delivery to the society they serve.
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Empowering children with information, skills and formal structures to advocate for their own rights
The Concerned for Working Children (CWC) facilitates the establishment of formal structures that allow children to advocate for their own rights. Makkala Panchayats, Task Forces, and working children unions to promote children’s political participation in their communities. Makkala Panchayats are children’s village councils that participate in the development of the village and that address the children’s concerns. Task Forces are comprised of children and adults who work together to link the children and the local governments. Working children unions are of and by working children. The unions are powerful advocates of the rights of working children. These tactics of organization-building empower working children to take part of the political space and decision-making process in their communities and help to eradicate child labor.
notebook: Uncovering the Evidence: The forensic sciences in human rights
In this notebook we learn about the ways in which forensic science can unearth human rights abuses from the past and bring closure to families as well as truth to the judicial process. The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team has been training human rights NGOs to use forensic tools to advance investigations. Through this science one can tell if a person was tortured, if the death was accidental or intentional and they can try to indentify the person.
notebook: Testing for Discrimination: Identifying and Prosecuting Human Rights Abuses
In this notebook we learn about how an organization in Hungary tests for and documents incidences of systematic discrimination against a disenfranchised population. When an instance of discrimination is reported, this organization will send out testers find out whether or not this discrimination was systematic and then document their findings.
notebook: Taking on Our Own Defense: The Chiapas Network of Community Human Rights Defenders
The model raised by the Network of Community Defenders constructs a new tactic in the defense of human rights. It proposes that victims and their communities become involved by electing their own defenders.
notebook: Reparations: Using civil lawsuits to obtain reparation for survivors of human rights abuses and to challenge the impunity of their abusers
In this notebook we learn how civil laws can be used to hold torturers and other human rights abusers accountable, and to gain reparations for survivors.
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