Founder @hopebasedcomms. #HumanRights communicator. Hopeful for a living, grumpy in my spare time.
Jun 22, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🧵: Some tips for building support for #humanrights based on five years of messaging workshops with activists around the world:
1/ Use values - always make an emotional, moral case for HR, not just legal/political/rational (RoL, accountability etc). "We are all human" "We treat each other the way we want to be treated"
Mar 24, 2021 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
Presenting... Seeing Hope: A Visual Communications Guide for Human Rights.
This is the fruit of three of years of what I consider my life's work, doing my little bit to find narratives that make people care about #humanrights.
seeinghope.fineacts.co
Ever since reading a ground-breaking analysis of how human rights advocates speak by @anatosaurus, I have been looking for a new vocabulary for our cause.
To talk not about human rights as an object given/taken away from us, but as something we DO.