New Tactics in Human Rights

The New Tactics in Human Rights Project, "led by a diverse group of international organizations and practitioners, promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community. Strategic and tactical thinking, long used by business and military strategists, is an effective means for the human rights movement to expand options and possibilities of what can be done. Innovative tactics are emerging that may more effectively advance human rights and end persistent human rights problems. Many innovations have been valuable, yet are not well known outside their regions.

"The New Tactics in Human Rights project promotes the use and sharing of as wide a range of tactics as possible. The project is coordinated by the Center for Victims of Torture and grew out of its experience as a creator of new tactics and a treatment center that also advocates for the protection of human rights from a unique position—one of healing and reclaiming civic leadership. We hope you will join us in developing, using and promoting strategic and tactical thinking within the broad human rights community."

Partner Organizations
Accessed August 2007:


 * Access to Justice, based in Lagos, Nigeria
 * Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
 * Danish Institute for Human Rights
 * ICAR Foundation in Romania
 * National Coordinator of Human Rights (Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos)
 * Public Administration Institute for Turkey and the Middle East (TODAIE)
 * Turkish Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (hCa)

Working Group
Accessed August 2007:


 * Mariclaire Acosta, Mexico, Former Under-Secretary in the area of Human Rights and Democracy, Mexican Government
 * Miguel Darcy de Oliveira, Brazil, Director, Institute for Cultural Action
 * Clarence Dias, United States, Director, International Center for Law in Development; Chair of the Board, Human Rights Internet
 * Camelia Doru, Romania, Director, ICAR Foundation
 * Basil Fernando, China, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission
 * Claudine Haenni, Switzerland, Research Fellow, University of Bristol
 * Bahey El Din Hassan, Egypt, Director, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
 * Somchai Homlaor, Executive Director, Asian Institute for Human Rights; Former Secretary General, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Thailand
 * Salma Khan, Bangladesh, former Chair and current member, United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; board member, Women for Women, Bangladesh
 * Morten Kjaerum, Denmark, Director, The Danish Institute for Human Rights
 * Norine MacDonald, Canada, Executive Director, The Gabriel Foundation
 * Sofia Macher, Peru, former member, Truth & Reconciliation Commission; former Executive Director, National Coordinator of Human Rights
 * Liam Mahony, United States, strategic consultant to NGOs in human rights and conflict transformation; Board Member, Peace Brigades International
 * Pat Naidoo, Kenya, Associate Director, Rockefeller Foundation, Africa Regional Office
 * Joseph Otteh, Nigeria, Director, Access to Justice
 * Boris Pustintsev, Russia, Chairman, Citizens’ Watch
 * Mark Ritchie, United States, President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
 * Nigel Rodley, United Kingdom, former Special Rapporteur on Torture for the United Nations and Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee
 * Kailash Satyarthi, India, Chairman, South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude
 * Rajesh Tandon, India, Executive Director, Society for Participatory Research in Asia
 * Patricia Valdez, Argentina, Executive Director, Memoria Abierta
 * Glenda Wildschut, South Africa, former Member, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
 * Michael Windfuhr, Germany, Executive Director, FoodFirst Information and Action Network International

Advisory Committee
Accessed August 2007:
 * Morton I. Abramowitz, former President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former United States Ambassador to Turkey and Thailand
 * J. Brian Atwood, former Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development; Dean, Hubert Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
 * Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada and former Consul General of Canada in Los Angeles
 * Richard J. Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and former Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
 * Ioanna Kucuradi, Chair of the National Committee of Supreme Coordination Council of Human Rights in Turkey
 * Walter F. Mondale, former Vice President of the United States and former United States Ambassador to Japan
 * Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist
 * Michel Rocard, President of the Commission of Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament and former Prime Minister of France
 * Edson W. Spencer, former Chief Executive Officer of Honeywell Inc. and former Chair of the Board of the Ford Foundation
 * Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist
 * Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Laureate

Funding

 * National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (funds projects spc. in former Soviet Union)

Contact
New Tactics in Human Rights Project c/o Center for Victims of Torture 717 East River Road Minneapolis, MN 55455 U.S.A. Phone: +1 612 436 4800 Fax: +1 612 436 2606 Email: newtactics AT cvt.org Web: http://www.newtactics.org

New Tactics Turkey c/o The Helsinki Citizens Assembly Asmal?mescit Mah. Sehbender Sok. No: 18/2 Tunel - Beyoglu ISTANBUL - TURKIYE Phone: 0 212 292 48 30 Fax: 0 212 292 48 33 Email: newtactics AT hyd.org.tr Web: http://www.hyd.org.tr

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Philippe Duhamel