HUMAN RIGHTS, CAPACITY BUILDING & PEACE 

INSAN focuses on implementing empowerment programs to vulnerable people such as women and internally displaced, implementing education and awareness programs.

Through educational programs on Human Rights, INSAN enables the promotion of tolerance and communication concepts, facilitating co-existence and reconciliation between communities.

Supporting and Promoting IDPs’ Rights

In 2006, INSAN conducted a nationwide awareness and education campaign on Human, Social and Political Rights to IDPs through the campaign ‘Where’s my family’, aiming at improving their political participation.

First educated through workshops organized in 14 governorates on their basic rights, IDPs were then encouraged to take part to local committees gathering representatives of governorate councils in order to facilitate their participation to the local social and political life of hosting communities.

The committees acted as a communication channel between local governments and IDPs, updating concerns and needs at a political level and easing tensions between communities. Impact was seen on the level of integration of IDP communities with hosting communities.

A conference with members of the Iraqi and Kurdish Government aimed at sharing IDP concerns at a highest political level. A media campaign for the Iraqi population through distribution of brochures and radio shows was also implemented. (British Council - 3 months)

Human Rights for All

In 2006, INSAN coordinated a nationwide education campaign on Human Rights conducted by 4 Iraqi NGOs. Promoting the rights of women, displaced and minorities through caricatures distributed in posters, banners, booklets, newspapers and tv spots, the nationwide campaign was also supported by radio shows. (British Council – 4 months)

Promotion of Women’s Rights

IIn 2006, INSAN implemented an awareness campaign for women’s rights in Kirkuk targeting in specific IDP locations. Booklets illustrated with caricatures and simple stories as well as posters were distributed in diverse IDP areas in Kirkuk while radio shows promoted the campaign. (UNIFEM – 2 months)      

Conflict Management, Peace Building and Reconciliation

Recognizing the increasing level of conflict all over Iraq, INSAN is now focusing in using its Human Rights and Conflict Management programs to spread peace and tolerance concepts across communities and engage communities in dialogue.

Kirkuk, due to its large mix of communities is subjected to increased tensions among the population. Insan is developing programs promoting peace building and reconciliation in this area, believing that women and youth are major actors of peace.

Conflict management is introduced through income generation programs, enabling individuals to become economically and socially inter-dependant, favouring a peaceful co-existence.

Community leaders are trained in Conflict Resolution and are engaged side by side with beneficiaries of programs in dialogue sessions with local authorities and other parties of conflicts in order to facilitate the resolution and settlement of conflicts.

INSAN is building the capacity of local organizations to work in a conflict environement. A training program will be launched in 2008 targeting 20 individuals working in Iraq and providing them with capacities to analyze conflicting situations, design conflict sensitive programs and efficiently intervene in conflicting situations to conduct conflict resolution and transformation. Small grants will be awarded to participants to conduct activities in their own environment.