Free book from IFEX on Free Expression
Toronto - The International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) today launches a new publication aimed at equipping human rights activists around the world with essential tools to campaign more effectively for freedom of expression and press freedom.
“Campaigning for Free Expression: A Handbook for Advocates” is a 120-page manual that provides a toolbox of tips, best practice case studies and resources for campaigning. The manual showcases a variety of campaign tools, including investigative missions, coalition-building, legal advocacy and Internet-based actions, such as blogging, e-mail protest letters and SMS text messaging. It also gives activists important tools for mounting campaign strategies and doing power analyses of their local situations.
“This handbook gives us vivid examples of how a variety of campaign techniques have been used to persuade governments to act in less repressive ways,” says Luckson Chipare, IFEX Convenor and Regional Director of the Media Institute of Southern Africa. “By doing skilful, tactical and strategic campaigning, free expression advocates can maximise their resources to become even more powerful agents of change,” he adds.
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