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Catalyzing Personal and Social Change Around Gender, Sexuality, and HIV: Impact Evaluation of Puntos de Encuentro's Communication Strategy in Nicaragua
Somos Diferentes, Somos Iguales (SDSI) is a communication for social change initiative that aims to prevent future HIV infections in Nicaragua by means of mass communication actions, including entertainment-education (edutainment) programmes, local capacity building, and the development of links, coordination, and alliances within communities.
Read more...A Participatory Assessment of Ashreat Al Amal, an Entertainment-Education Radio Soap Opera, in the Sudan
This 27-page report documents the results of a participatory assessment exercise, comprised of participatory sketching and participatory photography, conducted in Sudan to gauge how avid listeners of Ashreat Al Amal ("Sails of Hope"), an entertainment-education (E-E) radio soap opera produced by Population Media Center (PMC), derived personal meaning from its plot, characters, and educational messages.
Read more...Pop Culture with a Purpose! Using Edutainment Media for Social Change
This Oxfam Novib document discusses basic concepts and strategies in education-entertainment (E-E or edutainment), including: using edutainment to build and strengthen social movements; the common challenges of planning and evaluating edutainment; and the main theories supporting its practices and strategies. The author uses several examples of projects, including: Breakthrough in India, Soul City and Soul Buddyz in South Africa, and Sexto Sentido from Puntos de Encuentro in Nicaragua.
Read more...HRW Report: Illusions of Care - Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina
Pregnancy is not a debilitating illness. Yet everyyear, thousands of women and girls in Argentina experience entirely preventablesuffering because of their reproductive capacity.
Read more...Announcement and link to "Women's Empowerment in Muslim Contexts - Final report
Women's Empowerment in Muslim Contexts: Gender poverty and democratisation from the inside out
1 July 2006 - 30 June 2010
Religious intolerance now driving persecution of minorities across the world
Religious intolerance has now joined racism in many parts of the world as the leading cause of the persecution of minorities, a new global report from Minority Rights Group International reveals.
Read more...Oxfam GB’s Gender & Development journal
The July 2010 issue of Oxfam GB’s Gender & Development journal focuses on the global economic crisis.
Read more...Mexico: Effective protection remains an illusion for Mexican defender at risk
Indigenous rights defender Obtilia Eugenio Manuel has been subject to death threats and acts of intimidation since 2005 and some of her colleagues have been killed because of their work.
Read more...Three years at risk and still no protection for Mexican defender
Human rights lawyer Alba Cruz has suffered intimidation and harassment since 2007.
Read more...New Report: Criminalization of Human Rights Defenders in Mexico (in Spanish)
Since 2008, DPLF has worked with organizations in the Mexican state of Guerrero to build their capacities and bring attention to the situation of human rights defenders. In October 2008, DPLF and its counterparts participated in a hearing before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) and in April 2009, we organized, in Guerrero’s state capital, Chilpancingo, an international conference on human rights defenders.
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