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May
18, 2011
FEATURED
DIALOGUE - Front Line Watchdogs: Monitoring Accountability for Human
Rights
Join
New Tactics and our featured resource practitioners for a dialogue on Front Line
Watchdogs: Monitoring accountability for human rights from May 18 to
24, 2011.
Front line watchdogs come in all shapes and sizes. They can be seen in
courtrooms ensuring fair trials, accompanying threatened human rights
defenders, holding vigil outside police stations to prevent torture, protecting
election ballot results, testing for discrimination, monitoring development aid
projects, investigating toxic waste from companies, etc., etc. While
government bodies and corporations are often expected to monitor and regulate
themselves, self-regulation does not always successfully uphold rights. Front
line watchdogs take on this important citizen role of holding communities,
government and corporations accountable.
Watchdog monitoring provides an opportunity to analyze, understand and
influence abusive systems of power and to engage community members in human
rights work.
In this dialogue, we will explore successful front line watchdog tactics, and
discuss lessons learned, challenges and opportunities for practitioners to
adapt these tactics for their own issues and communities.