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Intersectionality: A Tool for Realizing Human Rights

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Intersectionality: A Tool for Realizing Human Rights

What is intersectionality?

Foremost, intersectionality is a tool for revealing and transforming the interworkings of power and oppression. Therefore, it is a powerful tool for realizing human rights for all. In its most popular form, many understand it to be a method for revealing the multiple dimensions of our social identities, e.g., how we simultaneously experience our race, gender, class, age, ability and so forth as unique experiences of privilege and/or discrimination. While it is important to understand how these social identities function together, the focus on identity politics often comes at the cost of overshadowing (or ignoring) the more transformative aims of intersectionality, which is the deconstruction and dismantling of systems of power and oppression.

Looking for inspiration & new ideas for your campaign? Check out our new Strategy Toolkit!

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Looking for inspiration & new ideas for your campaign? Check out our new Strategy Toolkit!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our online Strategy Toolkit, available in both English and Arabic!

https://www.newtactics.org/toolkit/strategy-toolkit

Our online Strategy Toolkit is a collection of resources and tools for building strategic thinking and tactical innovation. We’ve organized the material using the tested framework of our in-person trainings. We call this framework the 5 Steps to Strategic Effectiveness Method.

This resource has been developed primarily for human rights advocates, their organizations, coalitions, and networks to help better understand the importance and need for strategic thinking and to provide tools to help examine and determine what tactics might best help advance efforts to make change.

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Google Hangouts coinciding with our online discussion on documentation tools

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Google Hangouts coinciding with our online discussion on documentation tools

We’re trying something different this month! We’re adding four 30-minute Google Hangouts to our online discussion on Working safely and effectively with documentation tools. Join us for these Google Hangouts, watch the recordings in the online discussion, and add your comments throughout the week! Everything starts on Monday, June 9!

Schedule of Google Hangouts:

Live video chat with Omar Da'na about human rights in the MENA region - May 22 @ 12:30pm EDT

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Live video chat with Omar Da'na about human rights in the MENA region - May 22 @ 12:30pm EDT

In the last few years, human rights defenders in the Middle East and North Africa region have been buoyed by hope for change and challenged by chaotic upheavals. Join us for a discussion about the challenges and accomplishments of human rights groups in the region. 

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New Features: private messaging, tagging users, spell check comments & more

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New Features: private messaging, tagging users, spell check comments & more

We're excited to announce some new community-requested features on the website! Thanks to the help of Palante Technology Cooperative, we've added the following new features:

  • Private Messaging
  • Tagging Users in Comments
  • Spell Check Comments
  • Improvements to Search Filters
  • Social Media Share Buttons

Conversation series on Seeking Justice: April thru October 2014

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Conversation series on Seeking Justice: April thru October 2014
Carlos Mauricio and sign

In November of 2013, we asked the community to help us prioritize conversation themes for 2014. We wanted to know which themes would be the most relevant to your work in the coming year. We heard from 86 of you and one of the most popular themes identified by you was Seeking Justice. After human rights violations have taken place, there is often a strong motivation to seek justice for victims.

Conversation series on Mobilizing Allies: Jan thru March 2014

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Conversation series on Mobilizing Allies: Jan thru March 2014

In November of 2013, we asked the community to help us prioritize conversation themes for 2014. We wanted to know which themes would be the most relevant to your work in the coming year. We heard from 86 of you and the most popular theme was Mobilizing Allies.

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