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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:

  • 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 Amnesty International movement but also from external organisations and partners. Three members are from within Amnesty’s existing Global Youth Collective.  

  • 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: 

  • 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 various forms, including global events, blogs, and official submissions from external partners, national offices, and global teams. As an organisation that works with so many different types of actors, we noticed that we needed a way for members, volunteers, and staff to participate in their individual capacity rather than on behalf of an organisation or their profession. So, we found Pol.is.  

  • Narrow & occupied: views on a shrinking civic space

    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 through compromise of mental, economic and even physical safety. These narratives are common throughout the world. Particularly in civil society convening spaces; the shrinking civic space narrative is felt, heard and spoken of. We preach to the choir – to what end? Many spaces created for dialogues leave the knowledge within those four walls or remain in the minds of the select few who had the privilege to attend. For some, it might be for survival within their organisation and others, simply because they are too busy to share the knowledge with others. Having observed this from a grassroots level, two perspectives come to mind: the shrinking civic space is narrow and occupied.