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How to Message on The Rights of People From Marginalized Groups: A Communications Guide for Organisations Promoting Human Rights
by Civil Liberties Union for Europe
2023
Available in English
This guide is a tool for organisations in the human rights sector that want to communicate more effectively with the public to build
support for human rights-related causes. This includes civil society organisations, foundations, international organisations and national bodies promoting human rights.
The advice in the present guide relates primarily to how to speak to a moveable middle audience among the majority population. That is, an audience who does not, at first glance, consider themselves to be directly affected by the harms inflicted on the marginalised group in question. Put otherwise, the guide is more about how communicators can persuade the ‘majority’ population to support equality for marginalised groups than about mobilising people from the marginalised group.
How to talk about Democracy: What we know (and don’t know)
by Ryan Gem, Rushikesh Jadhav, Maria Milosh, Aby Dwi Prasetya, Mareike Schomerus and Gideon Too Democracy Narratives Alliance (DNA)
2026
Available in English
This research brief brings together extensive evidence and practice‑based insights on the role of narratives in shaping public understanding of democracy. Drawing on a review of nearly 400 publications and over 150 studies, as well as contributions from more than 30 organisations and experts, it maps dominant narratives about democracy, explores how messaging interacts with deeper mental models, and identifies strategies to rebuild trust and participation. It makes a clear case for coordinated, strategic narrative work as a critical condition for strengthening democratic resilience and countering disengagement.
Imagining the Otherwise Curriculum: Choose Your Own Adventure
by Lucila Sandoval & Fenya Fischle | Global Narrative Hive & Intrasentido
2026
Available in English
Developed through a global writers' cohort, this curriculum offers a practical and adaptable framework for facilitating narrative change processes. Structured around five thematic modules, it combines readings, discussion prompts, writing exercises, and collective reflection activities drawing on abolitionist thought, Indigenous resistance practices, queer and feminist literature, historical memory, speculative fiction, and somatic approaches. Throughout, participants are invited to reflect on how stories shape what societies perceive as possible, dangerous, and worth protecting.
Mapping the Currents: A Manual for Community-Centered Cinema
by Jen Tarnate, Aghniadi, Patrick F. Campos, and Karmela Indoyon
2025
Mapping the Currents: A Manual for Community‑Centered Cinema draws on the Cinemata Currents 2025 film festival and hybrid screenings to share lessons on using film as a tool for fostering civic engagement. The guide explores community‑centred curation, collective screenings, and facilitated dialogue, offering case studies, reflections, and practical tools to support locally grounded film programmes and narrative practice across diverse contexts.
Narrative Spices: An Invitational Guide for Flavorful Human Rights
by The Fund for Global Human Rights & Just Labs
2022
Available in English and French
The guide is an invitation to self-refection and creative practice for human rights advoca-tes who are interested in narrative change.
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