New Tactics in Human Rights (CVT)
Summary
The New Tactics in Human Rights project — “A community for people committed to Human Rights” — hosted by CVT (Center for Victims of Torture) on the newtactics.org domain. The site’s 2008-era content tracks video advocacy, dialogue pieces, and human-rights monitoring training (e.g. HREA’s “Monitoring des droits de l’homme” online course, Sept 17 - Dec 16 2008, in French). [source: new-tactics]
Body
The 20080707 Wayback snapshot of newtactics.org/ recovers the site’s standing tagline (“A community for people committed to Human Rights”) and four sample dialogues/announcements: (1) Dialogue: So the whole world can watch — a video-advocacy dialogue anchored on the Greensboro sit-in footage (“From behind the stools, white men start taunting the mixed row of mostly black students who had the audacity to sit there … lenses capture the scene. The whole world watches in shock”); (2) Dialogue: Self-Care, Part 1/3 — a practitioner dialogue on self-care for human-rights workers and advocates exposed “directly and indirectly” to distressing situations, “from those working directly with survivors of human rights abuses to those working indirectly on human rights abuse issues”; (3) three named-deadline announcements — Labor Research-Funding Opportunity (deadline July 17, 2008), MISA Press Freedom Award (deadline August 12, 2008), 2008 Integrity Awards — Nominations Deadline: 31 August 2008; and (4) HREA Online Training Course: Le Monitoring des droits de l’homme, Sept 17 - Dec 16, 2008 — an FR-language online training course on human-rights monitoring for human-rights monitors of international organisations and NGOs [source: new-tactics].
The site’s content reflects the New Tactics approach: tactical-innovation dialogues (broad network of practitioners sharing what works in human-rights strategy), videos and other resources for self-teaching, and an active opportunity board for funding and awards.
Use it for
Citing New Tactics as a community-of-practice for human-rights tactical innovation; using the Self-Care dialogue (Part 1/3 of a continuing series) as a reference for self-care in human-rights advocacy; pointing an FR-speaking human-rights monitor to the HREA online-course on “Le Monitoring des droits de l’homme” as the format for FR-language online training courses on human-rights monitoring.
Related
- affinity-groups
- boycotts-and-strikes
- dilemma-actions
- escalation
- framing-and-narrative
- leadership-development
- methods-of-nonviolent-action
- noncooperation
- nonviolent-direct-action
- one-to-ones
- pillars-of-support
- public-narrative
- structure-tests
- the-tactic-star
Sources & verification
- sources/new-tactics — grounding: primary — RAW (wayback 20080707 of newtactics.org/; ≈2,523 chars after trafilatura cleanup)