Now!Campaign is striving to combine our many disparate efforts conducted over the years into a cohesive, comprehensive and long-term initiative to identify, protect and advocate for all POCs. The key components of this initiative include:

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Monitoring

• Maintain POC list and update POC information

• Monitor POCs’ conditions in prison/detention

 

• Training/coaching for family members on rights

• Follow-up interviews

• Forum for sharing experience and tips

Advocacy

• Legal representation before and at trials

• Reports to UN Special Rapporters and Working Groups

• “Adopt a POC” campaign, for individual POCs and groups of related POCs

• Public campaigns

• Involvement of family members in Vietnam or overseas

 

• Regional campaigns

• International campaigns

• In-country campaigns

Support

• Regular contact with families of POCs, directly or through intermediaries

• Emergency assistance

• Networking of families of POCs

• Livelihood projects

 

• Networking families of POCs

• Matching each family of POC with an individual or group “sponsor”

• Training/coaching for POC’s community if applicable

• Post-release support for restoration of livelihood and capabilities