RARE

Activities

The skills required for effective and lasting human rights work are manifold. The digital age offers human rights advocates a variety of channels to raise awareness for their cause and to reach their target audience. But it also brings new kinds of threats for those who raise their voices, ranging from surveillance to cyber attacks, intimidation through defamation campaigns and verbal aggression in the virtual space.

Besides state-of-the art communication skills, executive staff in civil society organisations need pronounced leadership and strategic skills as well as a refined set of analysis and advocacy tools to manoeuvre contexts where civic space is shrinking. And most of all, they need a strong and reliable alliance they can count on.

RARE Policy Brief

Paving the Way for More Resilient Civil Society Organisations: EU Cross-Border Associations

Read the RARE policy brief here.

 

 
RARE II: Camp 3

Hope-based Communications

Advocates provide essential input for peaceful coexistence. Yet their succeses often remain unnoticed. How can hope-based communication be used effectively as a strategy to change this?
RARE II: Summit of the Cohorts

Public Speaking

How can human rights defenders communicate and advocate messages efficiently? Insights into the Meeting of Cohorts and Public Speaking Camp.

 
RARE I: Camp 1

What are the goals of RARE?

RARE is an intensive long-term capacity building initiative spanning over a period of two years. What are the key drivers behind it? Find out here!

 
RARE I: Camp 2

Strategy for human rights work

How should human rights defenders re-think strategy to leverage their impact? Impressions from the strategy camp in Athens.

 
RARE I: Camp 3

Communicating human rights

Human rights advocates provide essential input for peaceful coexistence. Yet their succeses often remain unnoticed. What can be done about that?
RARE I: Camp 4

Getting advocacy right

How can human rights campaigns be designed more effectively? How can the Council of Europe leverage cross-border advocacy efforts?

 

 
RARE I: Camp 5

Writing for impact

How should advocay documents be structured to reach the right ears and distinguish themselves from the background noise of policy making processes?

 
RARE I:Camp 6

Open source investigation

What new tools does the internet offer human rights defenders to built strong cases? How should they protect themselves in the virtual space?
RARE I: Camp 7

Networking

How can EU Institutions support the work of human rights organisations in Europe better and what should an EU Startegy for Civil Society comprise?

 

 
RARE I: Camp 8

Leadership

How can civil society and academics collaborate? What is solidarity among human rights defenders? What are the challenges civil society leaders need to overcome as they strive to build high-performing teams?  
RARE I: Camp 9

Nonprofit management and wrap-up

RARE’s final ninth camp concluded the series of workshops, networking sessions and panel discussions. What have we accomplished in 16 months?
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