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Amna Suraka: An Unexpected Place of Healing

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Amna Suraka: An Unexpected Place of Healing

Omar Altabakha is the MENA initiative Lead Trainer with CVT’s New Tactics in Human Rights.

Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan is a place like no other. While on my recent visit to Sulaimaniya, residents raised Kurdish flags on top of their houses in support of an independence referendum. Residents speak their own Kurdish language and wear traditional Kurdish attire out in the streets.

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Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in the United States

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Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in the United States

New Tactics in Human Rights, a program of the Center for Victims of Torture, has primarily focused its work on supporting human rights activists outside the U.S. over the past sixteen years. However, the changing political climate in the U.S. is inspiring new advocacy efforts to protect and promote rights. To be as effective as possible in 2017 and beyond, we believe it is critical that activists focus on building their strategic and tactical capacity.

And we at New Tactics are ready to help.

Fielding Difficult Questions about Clients’ Human Rights

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Fielding Difficult Questions about Clients’ Human Rights

Utilizing the New Tactics in Human Rights framework, CVT staff continue to look for ways to accompany and empower clients as they struggle with the immense questions about safety, their rights and how to feel secure in an uncertain environment. The article 'Fielding Difficult Questions about Clients’ Human Rights' explores responses to frequent rights-related questions, as well as tools for empowering clients.

Tactics for Local Action - Creating More Inclusive Communities

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Tactics for Local Action - Creating More Inclusive Communities

Struggling to identify where you can make an impact? For so many, the desire to make positive changes around human rights can be overshadowed by the overwhelming sense that the issues are too large, too complex and too distant to be able to actually make a difference. We ask: who am I to try to change things? You are a community member, a citizen, a neighbor, a family member and a friend. Around all of us are networks of individuals with whom we interact on a daily basis. We can all take steps toward a more inclusive, positive and understanding world by interacting with those we know best.

Below are five examples of tactics from the New Tactics in Human Rights tactic database that have been used to change the dialogue, breed inclusiveness and provide protection and open spaces for at-risk groups in communities. These and other tactics can be adapted and applied locally, and they are transferable: what works on a seemingly unrelated issue halfway across the world can provide inspiration and creativity for your local action.

Data Visualisations for Human Rights Organisations

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Data Visualisations for Human Rights Organisations

Data 4 Change is a workshop where human rights organisations and journalists are paired up with researchers, designers, and developers to create data visualisations that can help change the world. The need for the workshop was first realized when organizers learned that human rights organisations in the MENA region collect primary data, and had a strong desire to visualise their research, but lacked the skills and access to professionals to do so.

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