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Using international lobbying leverage to advance national lobbying for adoption of international policy mechanisms

In September 2008, ALEF-act for human rights (The Association Libanaise pour l’Education et la Formation) launched an international lobbying campaign at the European Union (EU) & United Nations (UN) institutions in order to push the Lebanese state to ratify the Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture (OpCAT). ALEF conducted eighteen (18) meetings within a period of two weeks prior to a visit by Lebanese representatives. These meetings leveraged international concern and served to influence the Lebanese state representatives and the respective Lebanese institutions and resulted in the Lebanese state ratifying the OpCAT.

Building grassroots support to develop a law and lobby decision makers

Association el Amane pour le Développement de la Femme (EL AMANE) in Morocco organized 161 consultative meetings in 35 cities and villages that engaged over 1800 women in order to collect the recommendations that were included in a draft law to prevent domestic violence. Based on the statistics of civil society organizations working in support centers for women, nine out of ten women are subject to violence perpetrated by their husband. This incredible level of abuse experienced by women resulted in EL AMANE’s decision to lobby law makers to institute a law criminalizing domestic violence.

Engaging victims to develop a community education user friendly guide “know your rights” titled “Detainees Guide”

The Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (TRC) developed a user friendly guide to raise awareness about the rights of detainees in Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) through a process of engaging people whose rights had been violated in order to understand what the broader community actually needs to know about their rights in order to claim them.

Framing the message: Turning an opponent’s message into a win for Black women’s reproductive rights

Sometimes non-profit sector campaigns may actually put people’s human rights at risk. In early 2010, a pro-life organization in Atlanta, Georgia launched a campaign which called for legislation that would criminalize abortions provided to Black women. To protect and ensure reproductive rights for Black women, the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective created a counter-campaign that used the opponent’s message and brought to light its negative implications for civil and women’s rights. 

Engaging Women for bike rides to raise awareness of violent conflict, and change perceptions

Women cycling together can create a powerful message. To date, over 1,075 women from over 30 countries have pedaled for peace in the Follow the Women for Peace (FTW) bike rides through Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and into Palestine to raise awareness for the urgent need for peace and human rights for all. Its core purpose is to empower women to take action for peace and an end to violence. Outreach and mobilizing activities like women-only bike rides expand their political and public space, increase women participation and legitimacy to play a role on a local, national, regional and international level.

Using illustrated children’s literature to educate children and adults of their rights and to foster a culture of human rights

The Arab Penal Reform Organization (APRO) publishes a series of illustrated children’s books called Activist Ali’s Team to educate children and adults of their civil and legal rights as well as to foster a culture of human rights in Egypt. The book series follows a curious ten-year-old named Ali and his male and female companions. Each book – in the series of 36 – focuses on a specific civil or human rights topic. APRO highlights Ali being concerned with the protection of society by the rights and duties guaranteed by law – national laws and international covenants ratified by his country.

Using Living Newspapers to bring world events into the classroom

The Living Newspaper Project is an innovative program to reinvigorate civic education through the dramatization of contemporary human rights issues.

Using peaceful marches to raise awareness of domestic violence

The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza) organizes annual marches across the country in memory of Gladys Ricart, a Dominican woman who was murdered in New Jersey by an ex boyfriend on her wedding day.  The Domestic Violence Bride's March seeks to attract media attention and raise community awareness of domestic violence.

Using international monitoring bodies to pressure government to address violations and establish mechanisms for protection

The Committee on the Administration of Justice succeeded in raising the issue of human rights abuses in Northern Ireland at the international level and, by doing so, brought about significant improvements in human rights conditions.

Using people’s tribunals to mobilize victims and pressure for justice

The Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), founded by a group of lawyers and social activists in India, set up the Indian People’s Tribunal to promote justice and mobilize victims of human rights abuses.  These tribunals seek to bring a wide range of human rights abuses into focus through conducting public hearings.  Positioned as an alternative People’s Court, since 1993 the IPT has conduc