Posts Tagged: human-rights - (10 found)

Creating and Sustaining Awareness of LGBTQI Rights

Join the New Tactics community for an online conversation on Creating and Sustaining Awareness of LGBTQI Rights from June 26-30, 2017. LGBTQI rights were only officially recognized as human rights by the United Nations in 2011. Since then the OHCHR’s Free & Equal campaign has sought to raise awareness and advocate for an end to discrimination against LGBTQI individuals. However, it is difficult to break the stigma which exists against non-heterosexual or cisgender individuals in many cases. This means that even when legal protections are instituted, enforcement is oftentimes lacking.

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This month’s featured tactic…

We love the New Tactics for Human Rights website, especially their catalogue of innovative tactics that includes case studies of each tactic. This month’s featured tactic is building public and media awareness to change the minimum wage and policy for sub-contract workers

“It became clear that the minimum wage system did not protect workers employed in small and medium sized businesses; instead, the system was misused so that workers earned lower wages. The KWWAU held a conference to publicize the survey results and to discuss ‘How to Improve the Minimum Wage System from the Perspective of Unorganized Workers,’ and to publicize the problems of the ‘unrealistic’ minimum wage system.

“In order to illustrate the gravity of the low wages, KWWAU staged a performance event called ‘Lunch with Yong-Hee’ in front of the Korean Assembly. They prepared Yong-Hee’s 944 KRW meal (about USD 0.60) and shared it with 60 participants at the performance. Participants included reporters from the media. The performance was so successful that it was reported in nearly all newspapers and broadcast on two major television news programs during prime time.”

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Raoul Wallenberg
General News

July 28, 2015

Nominations now open for the NSW Human Rights Award

Human rights activists across Australia are encouraged to nominate now for the NSW Human Rights Award, with entries closing on Friday, 21 August 2015. The NSW Human Rights Award pays tribute to a person who has made a meaningful and lasting contribution to the advancement of human rights.  The NSW Government supports the tireless efforts…

Strategy toolkit | New Tactics in Human Rights

This Strategy Toolkit is a collection of resources and tools for building strategic thinking and tactical innovation.  New Tactics in Human Rights have organised the material using the 5 Steps to Strategic Effectiveness Method. The toolkit has been developed primarily for human rights advocates, their organisations, coalitions, and networks to help better understand the importance and need for strategic thinking and to provide tools to help examine and determine what tactics might best help advance efforts to make change.

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Using shadow reports for advocacy: New Tactics

The New Tactics online dialogue “Using Shadow Reports for Advocacy” explored the various tactics in using shadow reports for supporting democracy and promoting government accountability in human rights. In the beginning of the dialogue, participants defined what constitutes a shadow/alternative report and identified the pros and cons of its use. After establishing a common understanding of shadow reports, the participants transitioned into discussing some of the deeper topics and challenges: issues of credibility, effective process of writing a report, using reports for advocacy, and addressing non-state actor torture by shadow reports.

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Self-care for activists: Sustaining your most valuable resource

In this dialogue, human rights practitioners discussed perhaps the most challenging aspect of being engaged in human rights work – sustaining activists’ mental health and energy. Human rights practitioners bring attention to disturbing events and heinous crimes worldwide, and often work in dangerous conditions. This dialogue emphasized the necessity of taking care of one’s self. Practitioners shared various approaches, resources, and discussed challenges.

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