WITNESS empowers human rights organizations around the world to incorporate video as an advocacy tool in their work. Rooted in the power of personal testimonies and in the principle that a picture is worth a thousand words, WITNESS and its partners’ videos have been used

Tactic Information

Intervention type: 

Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity

Objective: 

To strengthen grassroots movements for change by training them to create and use video evidence before courts and the United Nations

Sector initiating tactic: 

Civil society

Sector intended to affect: 

Civil society

Since 2000, the Human Rights Observatories Network has worked with youth groups in various regions of Brazil, inspiring them to learn about human rights and to learn how to report on and to monitor their communities’ access to rights.

Tactic Information

Intervention type: 

Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness

Objective: 

To train young people to monitor human rights.

Sector initiating tactic: 

Civil society

Sector intended to affect: 

Civil society

The Committee for Administration of Justice (CAJ) used the United Nations Committee Against Torture to raise local human rights issues in Northern Ireland to the international level.  In order to use international mechanisms such as this effectively, a number of other tactics were used including written submissions to the Committee, lobbying in Geneva and monitoring the impact the recommendations of the various Committee reports have had on Northern Ireland in terms of actually improving the human rights situation on the ground.
For a detailed exploration of this tactic, please consult our tactical notebook, "International Monitoring Bodies" by Paul Mageean. To view the notebook, copy the following URL and paste it into your web browser: http://www.newtactics.org/en/InternationalMonitoringBodies

For a detailed exploration of this tactic, please click on the following link to consult our tactical notebook, <b><a href="http://www.newtactics.org/en/InternationalMonitoringBodies">International Monitoring Bodies</a></b> by Paul Mageean.

Tactic Information

Intervention type: 

Intervention Tactics - Disruption

Objective: 

To raise 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

Sector initiating tactic: 

Civil society

Sector intended to affect: 

Government