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