NEW TACTICS IN POLAND – Increasing Access in Poland And Ukraine

For the team of activists based at the Jagiellonian University Human Rights Centre (JUHRC) in Krakow, Poland, New Tactics materials have offered a new lens through which to look at their work in defending human rights.

To increase access to the materials in the region, New Tactics awarded the organization a micro-grant in 2006 in order to fund translations into Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian. Through their website, the center was able to distribute the newly translated materials to various NGOs throughout Poland and Ukraine.

According to one staff member, New Tactics Tactical Notebooks, "encourage the students to look on the problems they come upon in their home countries in a more global perspective."

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RESOURCES:

Materials Now Available in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian

The majority of New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners was translated into Polish and Ukrainian by the Jagiellonian University Human Rights Centre (JUHRC) in Poland (see this month’s feature article).  These translations and other files are now available to be downloaded from the New Tactics website.

In addition, the JUHRC also translated two Tactical Notebooks into three languages.  These new resources are:

• Familiar Tools, Emerging Issues: Adapting Traditional Human Rights Monitoring to Emerging Issues – Polish | Russian | Ukrainian
• Testing for Discrimination: Identifying and Prosecuting Human Rights Abuses – Polish | Russian | Ukrainian

Tactical Notebook Now Available in Nepali

Access to Justice: Creating local level, citizen action mediation bodies to ensure human rights, by Dinesh Narayan Suddhakar, Center for Victims of Torture (CVICT), Nepal, is now available in Nepali.

IN THE NEWSROOM: Grants, Courses, Papers, and Conference

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Oxfam International Youth Partnerships -Application Deadline: January 31, 2007

Oxfam International Youth Partnerships is a global network of young people working with their communities to create positive, equitable and sustainable change. If you are working with your community to create a positive future then you can apply to be a part of the Oxfam International Youth Partnerships.  Who is OIYP looking for? - Young people aged between 18 and 25 at October 1, 2007 who can speak English or Spanish; - Young people who care about what is happening in their community; - Young people who are committed to working with others to overcome social, political and economic injustice; - Young people who want to learn from other young people working with their communities all around the world.  Applications close on 31 January 2007. For further information and to download an application form, please visit http://www.iyp.oxfam.org

Human Rights Litigation: Online Course - Application Deadline: extended to 1 February 2007

Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is offering an on-line course "Human Rights Litigation" from 14 February - 7 May 2007. This distance learning course provides participants with knowledge of the concept, types, venues and strategies of human rights litigation. It focuses on strategic litigation and legal aid both internationally and domestically, and explores a variety of strategies, issue or group oriented litigation, and community based services, legal clinics, NGO or law firm resourced actions and others. To learn more about the course and to download an application, please visit www.hrea.org/courses/13E.html

IIE Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowships - Application Deadline: April 1, 2007

The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit scholars to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large. When conditions improve, these scholars will return home to help rebuild universities and societies ravaged by fear, conflict and repression.  For more information, see http://www.iie.org/SRF

Call for papers: Global theme issues on Poverty and Human Development - Application Deadline: 1 April 2007

World Health Organisation (WHO) Bulletin joins 120 science journals around the world in inviting submissions on the topic of Poverty and Human Development, to be published in a Global Theme Issue in October 2007, organised by the Council of Science Editors. This international collaboration is designed to raise awareness of, and stimulate research on, poverty and human development. For more information on Global theme issue, please see www.councilscienceeditors.org/globalthemeissue.cfm

7th World Young Reader Conference - 25 - 28 March 2007, Washington, USA

The 7th World Young Reader Conference will explore the full range of new strategies and tactics newspapers need to adopt in order to successfully connect with a generation increasingly accustomed to satisfying their news and information needs on their own terms and through increasingly non-traditional means and methods. For more information, see www.wan-press.org/washington