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How to use human rights treaties as tools for
campaigning and/or lobbyingNKMV 2012
Overview/plan of the workshop
1. What is campaigning/lobbying? 2. What is needed for succesfull lobbying?3. Short presentation of the ”main” treaties
that have relevance in VAW/DV/SV4. Groupwork: plan a campaign of your own
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.
What is campaigning?
Advocacy & Campaigning Cycle:1) Know what you want to change (goal)->2) Plan the best influencing strategy3) Devise action plan4) Implement action plan 5) Monitor and evaluate progressIn the heart of everything there’s
management and coordination
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?)
What is campaigning/lobbying?
• A good goal is SMART: specific,measurable,achievable (or realistic),relevant (or appropriate),time-bound
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
An example: Case Closed
Goal• LT: Enhance the
human rights of rape victims in criminal process (report-> court) in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden
Objectives • ST: Legislation change• ST/LT: Practice change• LT: Attitude change
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!
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
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!
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)
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
What is the change that is needed within 5 yrs?GOAL
(problem/solution tree)
GROUP OF PEOPLE WHOSE HR’S WILL IMPROVE/STREGHTEN ETC
ANALYSISRELEVANT HR
INSTRUMENTS
OBJECTIVES
LONG TERM (LT)SHORT TERM (ST)
STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS
What is the change that is needed within 5 yrs?GROUPS->1.Number one’s: Survivors/ victims of violence suffer the
most because of the lack of support (LT/ST/specific)
2. Number two’s: Survivors/ victims of violence suffer the
most because of bad legislation
What is the change that is needed within 5 yrs?3. Number three’s: Survivors/ victims of violence suffer the
most because of attitudes
Lastly:
• Go forward with your plan, do the fine
tuning, include partners and make it happen!