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equalinrights' upcoming e-discussions

During April-June 2008, equalinrights will host a new e-discussion series on human rights-based development (HRBD). It would be terrific to have some new colleagues from the euforic training join us for these discussions!

Here's the information (also on our website), send an email to my colleague Joanne Coysh at coysh@equalinrights.org for more information or to register.

Discussion Topic	Overview	Facilitator	Date
Child Rights Programming	Strategies to adopt a (child) rights based approach in organizations. The aim of this discussion would be to share experiences of those who took the challenge and what lessons they learnt from the challenge. There is also need to find out the precondition for success and the suggestions that can be made to colleagues in other organisation to get on board and influence the culture.	Wout Visser, War Child	15 April
The Law and Human Rights Based Development (HRBD)	While the law should be used as an instrument of the people, it is rarely used as such. The complex legal language and inaccessible mechanisms mean that it is often out of reach for communities demanding justice. The is discussion aims to bring together development and human rights practitioners, lawyers and non-lawyers to consider the ways and means to enable people to integrate the law into their everyday work, as a tool to raise awareness of rights, to support calls for accountability, to use existing mechanisms and to call for reform to make legal forums participatory and accessible allowing justice for all.	Joanne Coysh, Equalinrights	29 April
Innovative methodologies for Human Rights Learning	Many practitioners have called for consideration of alternate methodologies for human rights learning, their components and effectiveness, and identification of common elements necessary for HRL. This discussion is to provide a forum where participants can share their knowledge, experiences and information about practices and research where innovative methodologies for learning and action have been implemented.	Emma Sydenham Equalinrights	13 May
Connecting micro upstream work to macro level advocacy processes	Human rights are being taken up in diverse and creative ways at the local level: however often the underlying causes of the problems are, at least partially, elsewhere. How can we ensure that human rights priorities, action and outcomes at the local level feeds into and influences national, regional and international advocacy processes for change? How can local voices better participate in and influence the process to ensure their fundamental needs are on the agenda and redressed? This forum will draw on participant’s experiences and ideas on these issues, and explore how we can contribute more effectively to this.	Joanne Coysh, Equalinrights	20 May

Subscribing to the blog

Just confirmed my email subscription to the blog, but going further into the settings for subscriptions in FeedBurner, I realise that I'll get one daily update. So, I'll have to check my gmail account late to check that it's worked.

Working with feeds

This afternoon, during the second day of the workshop, we are working with feeds. I've just added some widgets to my blog through FeedBurner. One widget allows people to subscribe to the feed of my blog (for example, by adding it to their iGoogle page). The other widget allows people to susbscribe by email to the feed; each time I update the blog, subscribers receive an email update.

I've subscribed meganlbrown14@gmail to the blog to test this out. So here goes...let see if I get an update in my gmail account after this post is published!

Here's the video

Subscribing to the blog

Just confirmed my email subscription to the blog, but going further into the settings for subscriptions in FeedBurner, I realise that I'll get one daily update. So, I'll have to check my gmail account late to check that it's worked.

http://blip.tv/file/815582

I'm live on the world wide web! Check out this link: http://blip.tv/file/815582

Jo from IDS, another workshop participant, recorded me speaking about my experience with wikis (and I've got a clip of her on the same topic!). During the afternoon coffee break, a few volunteers tested out how to make short videos using digital cameras, put the video files onto a laptop, do some quick editing in Windows Movie Maker, and finally upload the clip to a sharing site (in this case to euforic's "channel" on blip.tv).

I plan to embed the video in this blog, but at the moment get this message:


The Show Player only works with videos that are in the Flash video format. This episode hasn't been converted to Flash yet.

So, to be continued...