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Blog: Sport and Social Justice: Cheer for Change in the World Cup!

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Posted June 14th, 2010 by sluetmer

Across the world, sport generates some of the most popular and participatory social networks and events. Lots of media, lots of attention, and lots of fun! Right now the World Cup football competition is occupying the attention of sports fans worldwide: a great big international dialogue of alliances complete with facepaint, hoots, and hollers. A great place to publicize human rights?

Blog: Popularising the Universal Declaration on Human Rights

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Posted May 3rd, 2010 by RMistry

Human rights all too often seen as something that is too idealist, too high level or too technical by ordinary people.

I’ve just recently joined CIVICUS to coordinate the Every Human Has Rights campaign which was originally held by the Elders.  I’m trying to evolve it from what as a campaign to revive the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) in its 60th year in 2008, to a platform for awareness and action on human rights, (based on the UDHR principles). 

notebook: Using Government Budgets as a Monitoring Tool

In this notebook we learn about how to use national and provincial government budgets as monitoring mechanisms to advance child-specific socio-economic rights.  Budget monitoring allowed them to analyze how the government implements and allocates budgets to fulfill its legal obligation to help realize human rights.

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: The Human Rights Education Program for Women in Turkey

In this notebook we learn about how effective and beneficial building collaborative relationships with government institutions can be to advancing human rights education. Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR)-New Ways in Turkey gained the support and use of government resources for furthering human rights education of women at the local level.

notebook: The Power of Place: How historic sites can engage citizens in human rights issues

In this notebook we learn about how museums are innovating ways to keep history alive so that the public can remember and talk about what happened in the past.  The International Coalition of Historic Site Museums transforms places of passive learning into places of active citizenship and engagement.

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: Rebuilding Communities: Training trauma survivors to help communities heal after atrocities

In this notebook we learn about how the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) created local and and long-term capacity building projects in Guinea and Sierra Leone.  The CVT trained local refugees to be "mental health specialists" and gave them the skills to begin to rebuild their communities.  This notebook may provide tactical ideas to those assisting these communities trying to rebuild their lives.

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