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  • Compilation Video of #NextStrategy Events

    A compilation of the various #NextStrategy events hosted around the world where speakers provided input into Amnesty International’s next global strategy. This events included: 1. Winning the Battle of Ideas – how can we shift attitudes and norms? 2. Winning the Battle of Ideas Part 2 – what the public thinks about inequality and how…

  • Meet the Youth Task Force!

    Amnesty International is in the process of designing a new global strategy (#NextStrategy) to become a bigger, bolder, and more inclusive movement – setting the course for our work from 2021 onwards. The design process includes input from many different stakeholders, including a Youth Task Force. The Youth Task Force is a group of 16 youth leaders from both within the…

  • Power and Systemic Change: How can INGOs do advocacy and campaigns that change the root causes of injustice?

    Ruth Mayne, Senior Lead Researcher on Influencing, Oxfam GB The author draws on recent research on lnfluencing for Oxfam to provide some personal reflections and challenges for civil society, Amnesty International and other INGOs.  We now have enough experience and evidence to know that civil society campaigning can work to change government policy, shift corporate…

  • Next Strategy Phases

    Amnesty International’s next strategy, which will be adopted in 2020 for implementation in 2021, follows a development process consisting of four distinct phases:  The Input Phase  The Synthesis Phase  The Prototyping Phase The Testing Phase We have just concluded our input phase which included gathering as much data as possible from different sources on our five questions. Our five big questions were…

  • Is the purpose of Amnesty really to disrupt power?

    By Sonya Sceats Sonya Sceats worked at Amnesty International from 2014-5. She is now the Chief Executive of Freedom from Torture, which was founded in 1985 by volunteers from Amnesty’s medical group. This blog is written in a personal capacity. Twitter: @SonyaSceats Power is an inescapable element of human relationships. So the human rights movement…

  • Using an innovative tool for civic participation in the #NextStrategy design

    The Global Strategy & Impact Programme at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat has been collecting input for the organisation’s next global strategy (#NextStrategy). This strategy aims to chart a direction that is future-proof, adaptive, and responsive – capable of keeping up with a rapidly evolving human rights landscape. We’ve collected input during the design process in…

  • Narrow & occupied: views on a shrinking civic space

    Photo by IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis By: Dumiso Gatsha The civic space persistently shrinking. From regulatory pressure, repressive governments, abuse of leadership and limited resourcing; civil society work is compromised. This is not new to many who have been active over the last 5 years. Human rights defenders are arbitrarily arrested, voice of dissent silenced…

  • How do we shift attitudes and encourage people to come together in solidarity around a vision of dignity and justice for the future?

    Taking economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights work to the next level Iain Byrne Deputy Programme Director and Head of ESCR Team Amnesty InternationalFellow, Human Rights Centre, Essex UniversityTwitter: @iainbyrn We keep hearing the same narrative – human rights are at a crossroads; the human rights system is facing its greatest existential crisis since it…

  • Without rights of nature there are no full human rights

    ***Spanish translation below*** Alberto AcostaEcuadorian Economist. College professor. Ex-Minister of Energy and Mines. Ex-president of the Constituent Assembly. Author of several books. Email: [email protected] Breaking traditions can be more complex than jumping on one’s shadow. Accepting Nature as a subject of rights rests in such complexities. It is tolerated to recognize almost human rights to legal persons,…

  • The Hallmarks of a Winning Message

    Anat Shenker-OsarioFounder and Principal of ASO CommunicationsCommunications Consultanthttps://asocommunications.com Hello my name is Anat Shenker-Osario and I’m a communications consultant based in California. I use tools from cognition and linguistics to understand why certain messages resonate and others don’t, and I’m lucky enough to have studies how people reason and come to judgments about human rights…