Diplomacy Training Program

DTP Alumni Spotlight!!! DTP recently caught up with Pascoela Barreto while in Timor for the 33rd Annual Human Rights and Peoples' Diplomacy training program and got a tour of the new women's cancer centre at the Alola Foundation. Pascoela is a coordinator of the Alola Foundation in Timor-Leste. She leads Alola’s HALIKU Women’s Cancer Program, reaching over 20,000 people, training hundreds of health workers, and supporting at least 250 women to access diagnosis and care at Dili National Hospital, including arranging their transport, accommodation, and treatment support. "The DTP training helped me reframe health access as a human rights obligation and strengthened my practical skills to act on that understanding. I learned how to map power and design advocacy that reaches parliamentarians and bureaucrats." Read more of her story at https://lnkd.in/gqCiavuT #ancp #humanrights #righttohealth #womensrights Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

1st in a new webinar series - Human Rights Defender (HRD) Guidelines Webinar 1: What are HRD Guidelines? Thursday 23 Oct 4.00 - 5.30pm AEDT Speakers: Domenica Bumma (European External Action Service) and Sayeed Ahmad (Front Line Defenders) Register at https://lnkd.in/gm4yXv6i The Diplomacy Training Program (DTP) and Front Line Defenders are hosting a special series of webinars to build awareness and knowledge of HRD Guidelines and how HRDs can use them as important tools in their work for human rights. The webinar series will build awareness of HRD Guidelines, who has adopted them, and their value in challenging growing restrictions on civil society space – and defending the defenders. It will share examples of how they have been used by HRDs and diplomats - and how they can be used as the basis for civil society and governments to work together to promote and protect human rights. Webinar 1 will introduce the EU guidelines on Human Rights Defenders and their relevance for frontline human rights defenders. It will draw directly on the experience of practitioners – from the EU and from Frontline Defenders. It will build awareness of the content of the Guidelines and the actions they call for from EU Embassies and Diplomats – with some real examples. Register at https://lnkd.in/gm4yXv6i #HRD #humanrightsdefenders #humanrightsdefenderguidelines

DTP's eNews is in your inbox today. In this issue, we profile Timorese alumna Pascoela Barreto, who leads Alola Foundation's HALIKU Women’s Cancer Program, provide information about DTP's programs and upcoming webinars, share reports on recent programs and news from alumni, partners and the region, and calls from the UN for your engagement. Continuing this year’s series on human rights and digital rights, we provide a link to the Submission to the Global Digital Compact: Key Priority Issues on Child Rights and the Digital Environment, from a variety of international NGOs. This stems from General Comment 25 on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment from the CRC Committee adopted in 2021. https://lnkd.in/gic6SpME

DTP Alumni Spotlight!!! Patrick Niebo is a senior human rights advocate in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with more than a decade of service at PNG’s Ombudsman Commission. He now serves as a Director of the Kedu Safe House in Milne Bay Province, which provides shelter and advocacy for survivors of violence. "When I saw the opportunity about participating DTP training, I thought—wow, this is where I can really learn, and it’s relevant to our region, to our Pacific realities. I was right. DTP training showed me that I am not alone." Read more of his story at https://lnkd.in/gQMwM_6E #humanrights #ancp Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Webinar 2 in our Human Rights, Climate Change, Business and Indigenous Peoples is on tomorrow - Thursday 16 October 3pm AEDT   Food Estate in West Papua and the Impact on the Community Speakers: Dorthea Wabiser (PUSAKA Bentala Rakyat) and Grant Rosoman (Greenpeace International).   The second webinar will specifically focus on the Food Estate and its effects on both Indigenous peoples and climate change. The concerns about the impacts of the planned deforestation in Merauke extend beyond Papua and Indonesia to the impacts on the climate – with the forests of Papua being described as “the lungs of Asia” – and Asia’s Amazon. The Food Estate seems incompatible with Indonesia’s commitments on Climate Change and Carbon Emissions Reduction.   Register at https://lnkd.in/gNcZQr8Q  

DTP's eNew is out! In this issue, we profile alumnus Patrick Niebo, a senior human rights advocate from PNG who now heads the Kedu Safe House, provide information about DTP's programs and new webinar series, share reports on recent programs and news from alumni, partners and the region, and calls from the UN for your engagement.    Continuing this year’s series on human rights and digital rights, we provide a link to “Human rights by design: future-proofing human rights protection in the era of AI” from the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. This is a follow up to her report in 2019 “Unboxing AI: 10 steps to protect Human Rights”   https://lnkd.in/gDyQa2UZ

DTP Alumni Spotlight!!! We recently caught up with alumnus Lelung Khumi. Lelung is an Indigenous Peoples’ rights advocate from one of the smallest and most marginalised Indigenous peoples in Bangladesh – the Khumi people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). He is the Socio-Economic Specialist with TAHZINGDONG, a leading NGO in Bandarban. "The training opened the door for me to understand ILO conventions like 107 and 169, UNDRIP, and other human rights instruments. These are very important in my life – I am still benefiting from them and applying them in my advocacy today." You can read more of our conversation with him at https://lnkd.in/g92ueB2W #humanrights #IndigenousPeoplesRights #ancp #cht Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

DTP's eNews is out today. In this issue, we profile Bangladeshi alumnus Lelung Khumi, Indigenous rights advocate and Socio-Economic Specialist with TAHZINGDONG. We also provide news and updates on current DTP programs and registration is open for a new webinar series, Human Rights, Climate Change, Business and Indigenous Peoples. In our continuing focus on Digital Rights, Artificial Intelligence and human rights we provide a link to a podcast from thoughtworks with the participation of Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, a First Nations Nyungar woman working on new technologies, and Tom Sulston, head of policy at Digital Rights Watch. https://lnkd.in/gf3QyksY

NEW WEBINAR SERIES: Human Rights, Climate Change, Business and Indigenous Peoples Webinar 1: Indonesia’s Food Estate in West Papua and Its Impacts Wednesday 24 September 3:00PM AEST, 1:00PM AWST, 7:00AM CET Speakers: Laksmi A. Savitri, Ph.D. (Pusaka Bentala Rakyat Foundation) and Dr. Budi Hernawan (Driyarkara School of Philosophy, Indonesia) Register at https://lnkd.in/ghGFkVYX This is the first webinar in a series exploring the impacts of the rapid expansion of Indonesia’s Food Estates strategy in Merauke, West Papua, Indonesia. It will focus on the threats to Indigenous Peoples rights, biodiversity and the environment. This webinar will build awareness of the Food Estate, its impacts on Indigenous peoples in Merauke, the local and global environment. Moderated by DTP alumnus, Eko Waluyo (National Coordinator of Indonesian Solidarity) and hosted by the Diplomacy Training Program (DTP) and its Indonesian Alumni Network. Register at https://lnkd.in/ghGFkVYX