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How to use human rights treaties as tools for campaigning and/or lobbying NKMV 2012

How to use human rights treaties as tools for campaigning and/or lobbying NKMV 2012. Overview/plan of the workshop. What is campaigning/lobbying? What is needed for succesfull lobbying? Short presentation of the ”main” treaties that have relevance in VAW/DV/SV

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How to use human rights treaties as tools for campaigning and/or lobbying NKMV 2012

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  1. How to usehumanrightstreaties as tools for campaigningand/orlobbying NKMV 2012

  2. Overview/plan of the workshop • What is campaigning/lobbying? • What is needed for succesfull lobbying? • Short presentation of the ”main” treaties that have relevance in VAW/DV/SV • Groupwork: plan a campaign of your own

  3. What is campaigning/lobbying? Malicious contracts behind closed doors or riots in the streets? NO -> Systematic, carefully planned work towards a goal. Lobbying usually follows the campaigning/advocacy cycle.

  4. What is campaigning? Advocacy & Campaigning Cycle: 1) Know what you want to change (goal)-> 2) Plan the best influencing strategy 3) Devise action plan 4) Implement action plan 5) Monitor and evaluate progress In the heart of everything there’s management and coordination

  5. What is campaigning/lobbying? • A campaigning/advocacy goal cannot be type ”worldpeace”-> it has to be focused, precise • A good goal is based on analysis -> • Societal analysis + political analysis (HR analysis!) • Resource analysis + possibilities of co-operation • Research on the topic: is it available, is it concrete, is it usefull -> do we need to do it by ourselves (if yes, how?)

  6. What is campaigning/lobbying? A good goal is SMART: specific, measurable, achievable (or realistic), relevant (or appropriate), time-bound

  7. Unsuccessfull campaigning/lobbying -> Lack of focus Unclear aims and objectives Activity planning happening before (or without) developing an influencing strategy Failure to be innovative Vague, bland or technical messages Poor monitoring & evaluation

  8. An example: Case Closed Goal Objectives ST: Legislation change ST/LT: Practice change LT: Attitude change • LT: Enhance the human rights of rape victims in criminal process (report-> court) in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden

  9. An example: Case Closed Analyses: HR treaties and international law -> what is relevant and clear? (CEDAW, ICC Rome Statute, European Convention on human rights) SWOT/ PESTLE (Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal, Environmental) Research necessary, good momentum, MEDIA National campainging and advocacy important: Finland ATTITUDES REVEALED Evaluation, objectives: good progress in Finland!

  10. TOOLS! The international legal and policy framework • International human rights treaties • General recommendation no. 19 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women • Concluding observations of the treaty bodies • Other international treaties • Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime • Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court • Policy documents • General Assembly Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993) • Beijing Platform for Action (1995) • General Assembly resolutions: 61/143, 63/155

  11. Tools! State responsibility for eliminating violence against women The 2013 annual report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences, Ms Rashida Manjoo, will be devoted to a study on the "State responsibility for eliminating violence against women". http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/SRWomen/Pages/VAW.aspx SPECIAL PROCEDURES!

  12. TOOLS! European Court of Human Rights: relevant decisions X ja Y v. Alankomaat (26.3.1985) M.C. v. Bulgaria (4.12.2003) Kontrová v. Slovakia (31.5.2007) Opuz v. Turkki (9.6.2009)

  13. TOOLS! Council of Europe: Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/convention-violence/source/flash/map/map_en.htm Denmark? A European Charter for Equality for Women and Men in Local Life. http://www.ccre.org/en/champsactivites/view/3117

  14. What is the change that is needed within 5 yrs? GOAL (problem/solution tree) GROUP OF PEOPLE WHOSE HR’S WILL IMPROVE/STREGHTEN ETC ANALYSIS RELEVANT HR INSTRUMENTS OBJECTIVES LONG TERM (LT) SHORT TERM (ST) STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS

  15. What is the change that is needed within 5 yrs? GROUPS-> Numberone’s: Survivors/ victims of violencesuffer the mostbecause of the lack of support (LT/ST/specific) 2. Numbertwo’s: Survivors/ victims of violencesuffer the mostbecause of badlegislation

  16. What is the change that is needed within 5 yrs? 3. Number three’s: Survivors/ victims of violence suffer the most because of attitudes

  17. Lastly: Go forward with your plan, do the fine tuning, include partners and make it happen!

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