DTP Trainers are a vital part of DTP’s community. Prakkash is a senior program manager, Asia & the Pacific at WITNESS. He is a human rights advocate specialising in using video and technology in advocacy and community organising. WITNESS contributes video advocacy training to DTP’s courses and Prakkash has been a DTP trainer for many years.

“I see DTP training as a network-building opportunity. DTP training offers a space where people meet to support each other’s cause and build greater solidarity. It is important to have this kind of training for human rights advocates.”

Anne is a member of the Garo indigenous community in Bangladesh and currently working at the International Labour Organization (ILO) as a national coordinator.

“The training was interesting, and it was instrumental, we were taught about forced labour, child labour, discrimination of women and children, ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous Peoples among other issues. The training was useful to introduce me to international mechanisms.”

Muhammad Syukron Anshori (Ori) highlights opposition  and concerns of Indigenous peoples, environmental activists, human rights groups to plans to build new Indonesian capital in Kalimantan

Voices of domestic worker advocates (and DTP alumni) included in new discussion paper by DTP alumna Liva Sreedharan highlighting negative impacts of Covid and the positive opportunities from organizing migrant domestic worker

Yuyun Wahyuningrum issues invitation to talk with AICHR representatives from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand on 4 April

Alumnus shares news of the killing of two Papuan protesters by Indonesian police. UN has raised concerns about impunity for human rights violations in Papua

Bina Ramanand shares Family Frontiers short film ‘Saya Juga Anak Malaysia’ featuring Aini, about a Malaysian mother impacted by Malaysia’s gender-discriminatory citizenship laws

PIANGO Executive Director Emeline Ilolahia says CSOs must be included in any discussion of Pacific Islands debt in context of climate change and COVID READ MORE

MIGRANT FORUM IN ASIA In its #WomenAtForefront Series MFA highlights Ellene Sana, DTP trainer and Executive Director of Philippines-based NGO Centre for Migrant Advocacy READ MORE

PIANGO and CIVICUS joint statement in on the PNG government’s response to the recommendations arising from its UPR READ MORE

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Issue #145 March 2022

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