Making Human Rights Campaigns Effective While Limiting Unintended Consequences: Lessons from Recent Research (2017)

This literature review, commissioned by USAID and the Institute of International Education, addresses research questions focused on human rights awareness campaigns:

• What are the consequences of human rights awareness campaigns?
• What makes a human rights awareness campaign successful?
• Why do many campaigns fail?
• What are the unintended negative consequences of both successful and failed campaigns?
• How do local norms and other cultural factors constrain or enable the translation of campaigns from one context to another?

The resulting literature review, conducted by graduate students and faculty at the University of Minnesota, will help to inform USAID’s strategic planning, project design, and in-service training efforts in the democracy, human rights, and governance sector.
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