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This guide contains exercises on how to engage in successful advocacy for social change.

Guidelines are presented to help the workshop facilitator monitor and steer the learning process, and create an environment of mutual

This essay considers ebbs and flows in the history of the global women's movement, and key events and periods of significant impact for

This session guides exchange of ideas about universal human rights (and where they came from), and considers when and where human rights

This session explores the meaning of human dignity, considers an individual's right to control her own body, and discusses whether marriage

This session reviews the UN's Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and the goals of the

This video features activists from Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco, and Palestine who describe their advocacy campaigns to fight violence against

This session considers why some violence is universally abhorrent and what links these acts to violations of human rights, explores why rape

This session reviews the history and aims of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political

This session examines who defines or establishes one's cultural heritage, discusses whether there are any legitimate practices of gender

This essay discusses love as the silent, unspoken motivation behind every principle associated with respect for human rights.

This session examines several UN human rights mechanisms that investigate and respond to complaints submitted by organizations and