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notebook: Recipe for Dialogue: Corporate training for building relationships with Indigenous communities

This notebook describes how two US nongovernmental organizations developed training to increase the capacity of companies to build more effective relationships with indigenous peoples. First Peoples Worldwide and Business for Social Responsibility sought to bring the rights of indigenous peoples to the forefront and encourage businesses to do the same.

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.

notebook: Making the Global Local: Applying Global Agreements to Local Enforcement of Human Rights Laws

In the human rights field there is often a gap between local human rights abuses and the international laws and treaties that are meant to prevent these abuses. The League of Human Rights Advocates in Slovakia recruits members of a disenfranchised population and trains them to become human rights monitors. These monitors watch for human rights abuses in their own locality and then translate international human rights laws and apply them to their local situations.