[FoME] Communicating Human Rights 2.0: training for human rights defenders

[Christoph Dietz]

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
(OSCE/ODIHR) is pleased to offer a THREE-DAY CAPACITY BUILDING EVENT on
effective communication and promotion of human rights in the digital age
for human rights defenders (HRDs) from 57 OSCE participating states. The
objective of the training is to enable HRDs to independently use digital
communication, investigation and design tools to communicate and present
human rights messages more effectively, to develop stronger links with
citizens and to counter negative narratives.

Human Rights Communication 2.0 will take place in BUDAPEST FROM 5 TO 7
DECEMBER 2017 and will start with a public event featuring experts from
various fields, including digital communications, psychology, new media,
marketing, open-source and data-driven investigations techniques &
design, aiming to provide participants with new insights on how to
communicate about human rights. Day two and three of the event will be
devoted to practical workshops for HRDs, enabling them to acquire new
skills and knowledge while working and creating solutions for issues
HRDs bring to the workshops themselves. The working language of the
event will be English, translation into Russian will be provided. The
workshops will require a high level of active participation and the
content will be tailored to the interests of the participants. 

For more information regarding OSCE participating states please visit
the OSCE website http://www.osce.org/participating-states.


OSCE/ODIHR will invite 30 Human Rights Defenders* to attend this event.
The participants will be selected according to the following criteria:
● Proven track record as a human rights defender;
● Citizenship of one of the OSCE participating states;
● Prior experience in human rights communication, advocacy and/or
public relations;
● Strength/relevance of the proposed human rights communication
issue/project, the participant wants to tackle during the capacity
building event;
● Relevance of the training for future human rights communication
activities of the participant and his or her organization;
● Computer literacy and willingness to learn digital design and
investigation tools;
● Capacity and readiness to bring back and share received
knowledge/skills with organization/community;
● Fluency either in English or Russian.

DEADLINE for application: applicants are kindly requested to fill in
the following application questionnaire and to link their CV, either
through a cloud service (Dropbox, Google Drive etc.) or a public
LinkedIn profile, to the application form no later than 16 OCTOBER 2017.
ODIHR will strive to ensure a geographical and gender balance among
participants. Only successful applicants will be informed about the
outcome of the first selection round by 23 October 2017 and invited to
take part in the next steps. The final 30 HRDs will be selected after
the second application round. 
Please apply here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdk6NNAkG0WTzErEmTD4O0jfS6RkxdpIqMT4835PFyDj3wn6A/viewform


Accommodation and travel costs for the selected Human Rights Defenders
to attend the capacity building event will be covered by OSCE/ODIHR.

*OSCE/ODIHR recognizes as a human right defender any person promoting
and striving for the realization of human rights regardless of
profession, age or other status. Human rights defenders carry out their
human rights activities individually or jointly with others, as part of
an informal group or a non-governmental organization (NGO), and act in a
voluntary capacity or professionally. The key characteristic that
defines human rights defenders is not who they are, but what they do and
the human rights principles they stand for. 

With kind regards,

Johanna Pruessing

Assistant Project Officer, Human Rights Department
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights 
ODIHR | Miodowa 10 | 00-251 Warsaw
| osce.org/odihr 
( http://www.osce.org/odihr/) 
| johanna.pruessing at odihr.pl
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