ICB
Syndicate content

Blog: Truth and Reconciliation Processes: Aiding community healing through addressing impunity

New Tactics's picture
Posted March 11th, 2008 by New Tactics

Truth and Reconciliation processes have and are being implemented to aid community healing. This dialogue seeks to share experiences transitional justice processes known as Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, instituted with the aim of exploring the truth hidden behind pasts characterized by gross abuses of human rights.

Blog: Engaging the Media in Human Rights

New Tactics's picture
Posted February 26th, 2008 by New Tactics

It is important to be interested in "engaging" the media not just as another constituency with some influence, but because it is one of the ESSENTIAL levers of power. The media is integral to civil society. This dialogue focused on the media, and why practitioners need to become skilled at engaging journalists and news editors in giant media corporations, and alternative grassroots information outfits alike.

Blog: Using Mobile Phones for Action

New Tactics's picture
Posted November 27th, 2007 by New Tactics

Mobile technology is being used by citizens all over the world as the most affordable and massively adopted piece of technology. How can we harness this technology for advancing human rights and civil society participation? This dialogue is a space to share and discuss many ideas for "Using Mobile Phones for Action."

notebook: Together We Are Stronger: Peru's National Coordinating Coalition on Human Rights

Peru’s Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (National Coordinator for Human Rights, CNDDHH) is globally recognized as one of the most successful and effective coalitions in the world. This notebook analyzes the characteristics of a strong coalition and shows how to successfully fight against an authoritarian government, like that of Fujimori in Peru the 1990s.

notebook: Uncovering the Evidence: The forensic sciences in human rights

In this notebook we learn about the ways in which forensic science can unearth human rights abuses from the past and bring closure to families as well as truth to the judicial process.  The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team has been training human rights NGOs to use forensic tools to advance investigations.  Through this science one can tell if a person was tortured, if the death was accidental or intentional and they can try to indentify the person.

notebook: Taking on Our Own Defense: The Chiapas Network of Community Human Rights Defenders

The model raised by the Network of Community Defenders constructs a new tactic in the defense of human rights. It proposes that victims and their communities become involved by electing their own defenders.

notebook: Side by Side: Protecting and encouraging threatened activists with unarmed international accompaniment

In this notebook we learn about how an international organization called Peace Brigade protects targeted organizations by sending accompaniment of international field workers. This accompaniment allows these organizations to continue to fight human rights abuses while making it harder for governments to target them because of the international presence.

notebook: Sending Out an SMS: A rapid-response mobile phone network engages a youth constituency to stop torture fast

In this notebook text-messages and short message services are used to engage young people to quickly stop torture.  Amnesty International-Netherlands recognized that text-messaging was an easy medium to use to reach out to youth.  It was successfully used to protest torture when the Democratic Republic of Congo arrested a journalist. 

notebook: Reparations: Using civil lawsuits to obtain reparation for survivors of human rights abuses and to challenge the impunity of their abusers

In this notebook we learn how civil laws can be used to hold torturers and other human rights abusers accountable, and to gain reparations for survivors.

notebook: Public Audiences: Creating Space to Recognize Victims of Internal Conflict in Peru

This notebook describes the tactics that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Peru implimented to give a voice to victims of governmental human rights abuses.  The purpose of the commission was not an investigation, rather Public Audiences provided victims the opportunity to tell their stories and rewrite history in a sense to include the abuses they suffered.