Current Conversation: Incorporating Social Media into your Human Rights Campaigning - NOW OPEN!
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Incorporating Social Media into Your Human Rights Campaigning from
May 13 to 17, 2013. Social media is being used by human rights organizations around the world. But how do organizations use these tools strategically and creatively to reach their goals?
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Featured Resources for the Strategic Use of Social Media
This month, we are focusing on the strategic use of social media. We believe that by sharing examples of successful social media tactics, we can think of ways that these tactics might apply to our own work. To that end, here are a few examples of social media tactics that we think you'll find interesting. You can explore all of our tactics related to social media on our website, under the tag '
social media'.
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Mobilizing supporters on social media to get the attention of strategic targets - It’s not everyday that you can get the United States State Department to respond publicly to your concerns, this is - unless you have an enormous global network on Twitter! Amnesty International USA was able to get the attention of the Assistant Secretary of State, Mike Posner, with the help of several thousand supporters from around the world who used Twitter to urge the United States to respond to human rights violations in Bahrain. Join Christoph Koettl (the man behind this action) in this month's online conversation!
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Using social media to collectively document abuses and honor victims and activists - To honor people and cities that had a profound effect on the course of the Syrian revolution, anonymous artists created special stamps and published them on Facebook. Stamps of the Syrian Revolution are mock postage “stamps” that feature photos of events ripped from the headlines, or of influential people in the uprising.
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Using social media to engage supporters in documenting their acts of solidarity - The Facebook campaign "Kurd Men for Equality" was launched to send a message to authorities in Iran: Being a woman is not a tool to humiliate or punish anyone. The campaign was launched in response to a court case in which a man, convicted of domestic abuse, was ordered to wear women's clothing as punishment. This punishment was meant to be a form of public humiliation. But instead, because of this campaign, this punishment has been transformed into an opportunity for men to show their support and solidarity with the women in their communities.
Updates from the New Tactics Team
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