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Engaging victims to develop a community education user friendly guide “know your rights” titled “Detainees Guide”

The Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (TRC) developed a user friendly guide to raise awareness about the rights of detainees in Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) through a process of engaging people whose rights had been violated in order to understand what the broader community actually needs to know about their rights in order to claim them.

Creating local level shadow committees to promote women’s rights

The Civic Democratic Initiatives Support Foundation (CDF) created local level “shadow committees” to promote issues related to women’s rights and women’s participation in development. The capacity building process not only enhanced the ability of local women to advance their issues in their local public political sphere but resulted in local level NGOs promoting women’s rights.

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. 

Engaging Women for bike rides to raise awareness of violent conflict, and change perceptions

Women cycling together can create a powerful message. To date, over 1,075 women from over 30 countries have pedaled for peace in the Follow the Women for Peace (FTW) bike rides through Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and into Palestine to raise awareness for the urgent need for peace and human rights for all. Its core purpose is to empower women to take action for peace and an end to violence. Outreach and mobilizing activities like women-only bike rides expand their political and public space, increase women participation and legitimacy to play a role on a local, national, regional and international level.

Using illustrated children’s literature to educate children and adults of their rights and to foster a culture of human rights

The Arab Penal Reform Organization (APRO) publishes a series of illustrated children’s books called Activist Ali’s Team to educate children and adults of their civil and legal rights as well as to foster a culture of human rights in Egypt. The book series follows a curious ten-year-old named Ali and his male and female companions. Each book – in the series of 36 – focuses on a specific civil or human rights topic. APRO highlights Ali being concerned with the protection of society by the rights and duties guaranteed by law – national laws and international covenants ratified by his country.

Re-writing Traditional Stories to Gain a Gender-Sensitive Perspective

Fairytales and stories are an essential element of popular culture and communicate social beliefs about gender roles. The Women’s Stories project of the Women and Memory Forum was started to give women an opportunity to challenge traditional texts, re-define their role in society, and develop writing skills by re-writing stories from their own perspective.

Founded in 1997 in Egypt, the Women and Memory Forum’s mission is to promote a society based on justice and equal opportunities for men and women. One of the ways the organization does this is through re-reading and re-defining Arab cultural history. The Women’s Stories project, a set of gender-sensitive writing workshops, focuses on re-defining and expanding the portrayal of women in folk literature.

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.

Informing potential victims of their rights when there is a time limit on protecting those rights

Sometimes laws themselves impose arbitrary and brief windows of opportunity for individuals to act to protect their rights.

Using Living Newspapers to bring world events into the classroom

The Living Newspaper Project is an innovative program to reinvigorate civic education through the dramatization of contemporary human rights issues.

Using peaceful marches to raise awareness of domestic violence

The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza) organizes annual marches across the country in memory of Gladys Ricart, a Dominican woman who was murdered in New Jersey by an ex boyfriend on her wedding day.  The Domestic Violence Bride's March seeks to attract media attention and raise community awareness of domestic violence.