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Blog: Human Trafficking: Addressing Modern Day Slavery
From prevention, intervention, and cooperation, all are important in the interconnected nature of the human trafficking problem. The many different organizations, each with a distinct purpose, must each fulfill their role in order to eliminate human trafficking. This dialogue is a space to share tactics and methods that are having some impact and success on the issue of human trafficking as well as discuss alternative and creative strategies that could be applied locally and globally.
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Blog: Birth Registration in Southern Sudan
Hi, my name is Emily Boehme and I’m an intern here at New Tactics and also a student at the University of Minnesota.
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Blog: Red Card Campaign World Cup 2010: Disqualifying Human Trafficking in Africa
RED CARD CAMPAIGN WORLD CUP 2010 is a campaign led by Free Generation International which is an anti-trafficking organization.
According to allafrica.com : “More than 500,000 international visitors are expected in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup, and more than 500 criminal gangs are estimated to be involved in human trafficking for the sex trade in South Africa.”
Thus, the Red Card Campaign is a “critical awareness strategy with a focus on spreading the message in countries throughout the African continent, not just those bordering South Africa and the host country itself”.
According to this campaign, a “red card” “represents red cards given to soccer players who severely violate the rules of the game, and are disqualified from further participation”. They write that “by using this symbol, we are sending a simple message, that “human trafficking of Africans has no place at the World Cup 2010 and beyond, and should therefore be disqualified.”
Blog: The Many Uses for Google
A lot of my posts lately have concerned technologies that help those in the human rights fields communicate and share in a secure way. Signing up for a Google account provides you with an easy way to communicate with people anywhere in the world, maintain a fairly secure digital identity, and share things more easily with a community (or even just a few people). In this post I want
Blog: Security in-a-box
Hi everyone,
There is a really great new tool that I would like to let people know about. It's called Security in-a-box, and was a joint effort between Tactical Technology Collective and Front Line. Security in-a-box is a toolkit that was created to help human rights defenders and activists protect their privacy and digital security needs. It can also be an important tool for members of the independent media whose work involves human rights.
