WUNRN
Call
for Contributions - Manual Documenting Violations Against Women's Rights
Defenders
Deadline: February
6th, 2009.
As a follow-up to the International
Women Human Rights Defenders Campaign of 2005 and the development of the
guidebook "Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook for Women Human
Rights Defenders" (the Guidebook), ISHR in collaboration with the WHRD
Campaign convened an international consultation on women human rights defenders
in Bogota, Colombia in 2008. One of the main objectives of the consultation was
to develop a manual that would serve as a simple and practical tool to assist
organisations, groups and individuals in documenting violations against women
human rights defenders. Deadline: February 6th, 2009.
The Manual
is intended to encourage documentation of violations against women human rights
defenders as part of a broader strategy of protection.
The target
audience of the Manual are organisations, individuals and others who may
already undertake documentation work, or wish to begin documentation
activities, in addition to women human rights defenders.
The Manual
should ideally contain information on what do document, how to go about
documenting violations and how to use documentation to secure or strengthen
protection of WHRDs. With respect to the latter topic, for example, the Manual
will provide information on accessing international, regional and national
human rights protection mechanisms, campaign building and using documentation
to develop preventive measures. The Manual is intended to be simple and easy to
use, and to serve as a 'hands-on' training resource.
ISHR and
WHRD Campaign are now in the initial process of compiling a table of existing
materials on documentation in order to have a list of resources, as well as to
avoid any duplication of substance, and to ensure that the proposed Manual
would have added value for the work of WHRDs. They are looking for existing
material that covers one or more of the following topics:
Please email
the title of the material that you would like to propose, in addition to
where ISHR and WHRD Campaign can find it, online [i.e. web link], print
or the relevant citation, to k.asoka@ishr.ch
Please feel
free to comment on any specific aspect of the material that you are sending in
that you feel ISHR and WHRD Campaign should take particular note of. ISHR and
WHRD Campaign welcomes your input and would appreciate if they could receive
your contributions no later than February 6th, 2009.
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