Overview
The authors -- from diverse walks of life and human rights issue areas -- recount their personal experiences in these detailed tactical notebooks. Although their backgrounds and situations differ, all used innovative tactics to help address an urgent human rights situation. Read these notebooks to learn how a tactic was actually implemented, what factors influenced its use, and the challenges that surfaced along the way. We hope these examples of how tactics were used in sometimes
dangerous, real-life situations will help you think tactically, to consider adapting these tactics to your own context, and adding these tactics to your own tactical repertoire.
Below you will find a table of all tactical notebooks currently availble. (Also available in Summary View and Summary View by Region)
- Year refers to year of publication of notebook.
- Title is the title of the notebook.
- Region refers to the geographic region in which the tactic was implemented.
- available in shows the various languages to which the notebook has been translated.
You can re-sort by clicking on the column headings(except last column).
| Year | Title | Region | available in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Right to Know, Right to Live | Asia | English |
| 2008 | Building Child Friendly Villages | Asia | Spanish | English |
| 2007 | Action Theatre | Asia | English |
| 2006 | Access to Justice: Creating local level, citizen action mediation bodies to ensure human rights | Asia | Nepali | English |
| 2006 | Engaging Key Stakeholders | Asia | English |
| 2006 | Engaging the Media: Building support for minimum wage reform | Asia | English |
| 2006 | Human Rights Advocacy Utilizing Religious Perspectives and Opinion Leaders | Asia | Indonesian | English |
| 2006 | Police Training | Asia | English |
| 2006 | Research for Action | Asia | English |
| 2006 | Tandem©: Cross-cultural exchange between police and migrants | Western Europe and North America | English |
| 2006 | Women Making Peace: Mobilizing Ourselves Against the War | Latin America | Spanish |
| 2005 | Open Memory | Latin America | Spanish | Mam | English | Bengali (Bangla) |
| 2005 | Reparations | Western Europe and North America | English |
| 2005 | Taking on Our Own Defense | Latin America | Spanish | English |
| 2005 | The Human Rights Education Program for Women in Turkey | C/E Europe & Turkey | Russian | English | Armenian |
| 2005 | Together We Are Stronger | Latin America | Spanish |
| 2005 | Las Iniciativas Populares | Latin America | Spanish |
| 2005 | De la protesta a la propuesta | Latin America | Spanish |
| 2004 | A Mock Tribunal to Advance Change | Africa | English | Bengali (Bangla) |
| 2004 | Complementary Strengths: Western Psychology and Traditional Healing | Africa | English |
| 2004 | Expanding Access to Justice | Latin America | Russian | English | Bengali (Bangla) |
| 2004 | Familiar Tools, Emerging Issues | Western Europe and North America | Ukrainian | Russian | Polish | English |
| 2004 | Human Rights and the Corporation | Western Europe and North America | English |
| 2004 | I'll Walk Beside You | Africa | English |
| 2004 | International Monitoring Bodies | Western Europe and North America | Russian | English |
| 2004 | Leveraging the Money | Western Europe and North America | Russian | English |
| 2004 | Powerful Persuasion | Africa | French | English |
| 2004 | Promoting Human Rights Professionalism in the Liberian Police Force | Africa | Spanish | Russian | English |
| 2004 | Public Audiences | Latin America | Spanish | English |
| 2004 | Rebuilding Communities | Africa | English |
| 2004 | Recipe for Dialogue | Western Europe and North America | English |
| 2004 | Sending Out an SMS: A rapid-response mobile phone network engages a youth constituency to stop torture fast | Western Europe and North America | English |
| 2004 | Side by Side: Protecting and encouraging threatened activists with unarmed international accompaniment | Western Europe and North America | English |
| 2004 | Society as Mediator for Conflict Resolution | Western Europe and North America | English |
| 2004 | The Dilemma Demonstration | Western Europe and North America | Russian | English | Armenian |
| 2004 | The Power of Place: How historic sites can engage citizens in human rights issues | Western Europe and North America | Spanish | Russian | English | Armenian |
| 2004 | Uncovering the Evidence | Latin America | Russian | English | Armenian |
| 2004 | Using Government Budgets as a Monitoring Tool | Africa | Russian | English |
| 2004 | Using Popular Theater to Break the Silence Around Violence Against Women | Africa | French |
| 2003 | A Call to End Corruption | C/E Europe & Turkey | Russian | English | Bengali (Bangla) |
| 2003 | Breaking the Silence | C/E Europe & Turkey | Georgian | English |
| 2003 | Educating the Next Generation | C/E Europe & Turkey | English |
| 2003 | Making Sense of the Information Wilderness | C/E Europe & Turkey | English | Bengali (Bangla) |
| 2003 | Making Allies | C/E Europe & Turkey | Urdu | Spanish | French | English | Chinese (Traditional) | Bengali (Bangla) |
| 2003 | Making the Global Local | C/E Europe & Turkey | Russian | English | Bengali (Bangla) |
| 2003 | Making the State Pay | C/E Europe & Turkey | Russian | English | Bengali (Bangla) |
| 2003 | Plan B | C/E Europe & Turkey | English |
| 2003 | Testing for Discrimination | C/E Europe & Turkey | Ukrainian | Russian | Polish | Georgian | English | Bengali (Bangla) |
