Middle East and North Africa

Lebanese Law Students Find Creative Ways to Teach Human Rights

Eleven students at La Sagesse University Law Faculty, who have been selected to work on public education projects, participated in a two-day workshop preparing them to teach human rights and civics to schoolchildren in Lebanon. On the first day, the law students discussed presentation strategies and interactive teaching techniques. The students each arrived to the second and final day of training with clever and promising presentations. Some brought props with them (such as guitars and road signs) to clearly demonstrate their ideas, others used recorded footage to transmit their message, while others started their presentation with a role play. Read more »

Africa

Congolese Gender-Based Violence Program Takes on First Cases

Widespread gender-based violence in DRC has been used as a weapon in the civil conflict affecting the country, especially in the provinces of South and North Kivu. The official statistics from the Ministry of Gender show some 5,000 female survivors of gender-based violence in 2007 in those provinces. The greatest challenge to ABA ROLI’s work is to establish the office as an outpost for the government’s support. Encouragin government officials to support and actively sponsor the program will be the key to success. Despite these challenges, DRC Country Director Matheiu Ndongo-Koni has earned the confidence of the Congolese Minister of Justice, hired six staff, and helped the gender-based violence program begin its first two cases. Read more »