WUNRN
New Tactics eNewsletter – May
27, 2009
FEATURED
DIALOGUE: Engaging Pro-Bono Lawyers – NOW OPEN!
Join
New Tactics featured resource practitioners from May 27 to June 2 for an on-line dialogue on Engaging
Pro-Bono Lawyers. A major obstacle for victims of human rights abuses
is gaining access to legal representation in order to file a complaint against
the perpetrator. This online dialogue will be space for practitioners to share
successful tactics for engaging pro-bono, or free, legal services through
access to a variety of professional resources. Join the New Tactics online
community today to participate!
http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/new-tactics/engaging-pro-bono-lawyers
http://www.newtactics.org/user/register
SAVE
THE DATES: July 8 - 14, 2009
Join
New Tactics, Tactical Technology Collective, and our featured resource
practitioners from July 8 - 14 for an on-line dialogue on Information
Activism. This on-line dialogue will be space for practitioners to share
the innovative ways in which they have shared information for advocacy
campaigns. We will discuss topics such as: collecting data, creative ways of
visualizing data, digital ways of sharing this information, and the security
risks one should evaluate before implementing these activities. We hope to see
you there!
FEATURED
RESOURCES
New
Tactics Notebook: Expanding Access to Justice
The
Pro-Bono Institute has created a new legal tradition in São Paolo, convincing
major law firms to donate their legal services and connecting them with NGOs in
need of legal services. The Institute has recruited about 140 lawyers and is
offering a variety of free services to all kinds of NGOs, including support for
important human rights cases. It has achieved a rapid change in attitude in the
legal community and pro bono work has become steadily more popular. This notebook demonstrates how to develop pro
bono services in the professional legal community to give NGOs and victims of
human rights abuse access to more frequent and better legal services. Join Eric
Lockwood from the Pro Bono Institute and other featured resource practitioners
in our featured online dialogue this month!
http://www.newtactics.org/en/ExpandingAccesstoJustice
http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/new-tactics/engaging-pro-bono-lawyers
interTactica:
Power through Organizing: Lessons from the Field
On
InterTactica this week, priceless stories and
tips on how power shifts are made, through the vital work of organizing. Decades
of experience concentrated into nuggets of advice to anyone interested in
bringing real improvements to people's lives. Don't miss it.
Starting
in June, I'll be also running a "primer" series on nonviolent
struggle: what it is, how it works, how to strategize and implement the
revolutionary methods and paradigm that have started to shake the world. -- Philippe Duhamel
interTactica [English] http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/philippe-duhamel
interTactica [Français] http://www.newtactics.org/fr/blog/interTactica
IN
THE NEWSROOM: Awards and Calls for Proposals
Call for
Applications: Atkin Fellowship for Young Leaders from
The
purpose of the fellowship is to provide young leaders from
Fellowship programme
for persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic
minorities
The
OHCHR aims to give persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and
linguistic minorities - particularly young minority women and men - an opportunity
to gain knowledge on the UN system and mechanisms dealing with international
human rights in general and minority rights in particular. Deadline to apply is
15 June 2009. For more information see: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/minorities/fellowprog.htm
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