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Blog: Viewpoint: How New Technologies Impact Aid Coordination

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Please read, share and comment on our latest viewpoint, which challenges the current aid coordination institutions to embrace new technologies that truly enable 'rights-based' aid distribution by putting choices, and power, into the hands of the people that aid is meant to reach.

Blog: Behind the Barricades, There Is Happiness

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Richard Moore describes himself as “just a guy who wanted to help.”

This is somehow funny coming from a man whom the Dalai Lama refers to as “my hero.”

Blog: Human Rights & Humanitarian Law Course

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Human Rights & Humanitarian Law Course

Blog: Online Communities for International Do-Gooders

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Today I discussed the importance of developing a critical consciousness (along side a compassionate consciousness) with someone in the San Francisco Bay area who is supporting a local organization in Malawi.

But how does a person actually go about this, especially someone who may be new to international assistance? As we all know, openness to learning and seeking out advice from others with more experience is vital.

As it just so happens, this week I’ve also been compiling a list of online communities related to international development for a project I’ve just started. Whether you are a seasoned professional or someone just getting involved, I hope the following list can give a glimpse of the growing variety of opportunities available online to connect with others and gain exposure to the various contexts and complexities of international assistance and foreign aid.

Community radio for empowerment and change

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New Tactics was new to me, when I engaged with the most recent dialogue on community radio, engagement, empowerment and hunam rights. What a wonderful platform you offer for (as you say) listening & learning coupled with reflecting on the own practice & sharing.

Blog: How credible is Human Rights Watch on Cuba?

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How credible is Human Rights Watch on Cuba?

Blog: Human Rights Delegations to Rwanda: Recent and Summer Delegations

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First glimpse at the most recent Global Youth Connect human rights delegation to Rwanda. Information for young activists to join this Summer.

منبر حقوق الإنسان العراقي

هذه المجموعة تهدف الى التعاون مع الجهات الفاعلة والمركزية في المجتمع المدني العراقي ، لتحليل وضع حقوق الإنسان وبالتحديد حرية تكوين الجمعيات في العراق عن طريق الحوارات والتنسيق.


Blog: Significance of law enforcement officers training

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Generally, training is a heart topic of development in any field, as it brings to practice most recent successful methodologies of doing things, and it also relates practices to theories in a homogenous way, it goes beyond doubt that training has  a similar importance  to bring both legal & human-rights imperativeness knowledge to law enforcement officers( later cited as LEOs), training here is a multi-layer process of upgrading the awareness and enriching performance methodologies mainly at the police level, it helps a lot when the personnel are of common understanding of their obligations in terms of the service delivery to the society they serve.

Advocates of Humor

For all of those who use, or are interested in the use of, humor in advocating human rights, this group is intended to create a community to exchange strategies, stories, and tips both formally and casually.