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!