Presentations
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August 7

  • Mashadi Said - Human rights advocacy utilizing religious/cultural perspectives--with a focus on using the foundations of religious and cultural values of Indonesia to promote human rights education.

  • Shanon Shah - Human rights advocacy utilizing religious/cultural perspectives--with a focus on how the Islamic framework was used to build community awareness and develop an association to challenge Shari’ah and secular laws that violate human rights

  • Chubashini Suntharalingam - Using documentation for building support for action--with a focus on how the region-wide participatory research and documentation on agriculture and trade is leading to citizen participation and advocacy on trade policies in the region.

  • Eunyoung Kim - Building credible documentation--with a focus on the how the documentation was used to draw up a "blacklist" of unacceptable political candidates and moving the public to vote against these candidates.

  • Jee Hyeon Kim - Engaging the public awareness and action--with a focus on how public and media awareness was engaged to change the minimum wage and policy for sub-contract workers.

  • Ma. Janet Geneblazo-Buelo - Building public awareness--with a focus on how media was engaged to build environmental awareness and action of citizens for policy change.

  • Motahar Akand - Using action theater--with a focus on how theater is used to analyze a specific social problem and stimulate community activism.

  • Mohammad Waseem Nizami - Using action theater--with a focus on how interactive theater was used to create meaningful dialogue at the grass roots to prompt community participation and social mobilization.

August 9

  • Dinesh Suddhakar - Creating local level bodies for citizen action--with a focus on how the institution of the rights-based community mediation committees is advancing human rights education and reducing violence and torture.

  • Chenda Keo - Creating local level bodies for citizen action for human rights--with a focus on engaging children and the community to develop village child protection networks.

  • Thu Ha Nguyen - Monitoring development projects from a rights-based perspective--with a focus on the capacity building of community-based water users associations to monitor and operate small-scale development infrastructures.

  • Sowmya Kidambi - Monitoring development projects from a right-based perspective--Social auditing to reduce corruption with a focus on village-level monitoring of expenditures on community development projects.

  • Tofazzel Hossein - Engaging key stakeholders--with a focus on engaging absentee landlords for resolving land dispute.

  • Syed Asif Altaf Chowdhury - Engaging key stakeholders–with a focus on the engagement of the transport union and workers, transport company and NGOS in order to provide HIV/AIDS education and health services.

  • Maria Estela Vasquez - Building collaborative partnerships--with a focus on the colloraborative partnerships needed to develop a Local Housing Board that responds to development-related demolitions and fulfillment of the right to housing.

  • Mir Rakib Ahsan - Building collaborative partnerships--with a focus on the partnership between Asia Foundation, police and community.