Lesson Series 23: Effective Campaigning on Human Rights Issues

The Issue

Effective campaigning is crucial in gaining support and solidarity for human rights issues. Good campaigns may include the use of technology and communication facilities, networking, community actions or the monitoring of legal and government processes.

The Lessons

This lesson series is related to earlier lessons on human rights campaigning: Lesson Series 5: Due process rights: Campaigning for legal reforms, Lesson Series 13: Use of Communication for Protection of People and Promotion of Human Rights Part 1, Lesson Series 14: Use of Communications for Protection of peoples and Promotion of human Rights Part 2, and Lesson Series 4: Actions to promote human rights.

Lesson 1: Case study of a campaign to release workers who had been tortured