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Scenario

When human rights colleagues disagree on international versus local advocacy strategies

My colleague and I have been working on human rights documentation for three years and we keep hitting the same wall where international law gives us frameworks but no enforcement mechanisms and she thinks we should focus on local advocacy while I believe we need to keep pushing the international angle even though it feels futile.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two advocates are wrestling with the gap between international legal ideals and practical impact, each seeing different paths forward.

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Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with International law and its limits?”

Peri

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