Anna Rottenecker

PH-I Against The Odds

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The Phoenix Initiative for Human Dignity (PH-I) is a collaborative platform to support civil society organizations, informal groups, and movements working on the rule of law, human rights, democracy, and justice in building resilient and healthy organizational structures. We use a combination of knowledge, learning and cooperation to support the human dignity movement, and we are convinced that learning from each other’s experiences is often more powerful than anything else. Listen to our podcast PH-I Against The Odds to hear from human dignity defenders and civil society organizations around...

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Anna Rottenecker

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Defending human dignity in a country with strict foreign agent laws 09.01.2026 18:54

In this episode, we would like to explore the possibilities and opportunities to defend fundamental human rights and human dignity in a country that has imposed a strict foreign agent law on its civil society. India has introduced the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) in 1976 and since then continuously tightened the regulation, the last important one ones in 2020. Madhurima Dhanuka, the...

The role of partnership for successful human dignity work from exile 09.07.2025 19:30

The notion of partnership is a wide topic, and regularly discussed in the context of a good donor relationship, the generation of lasting impact or others. Upholding high quality partnerships are not an easy undertaking, but when doing so from exile, it is even more challenging, and crucial. Stephen Nyein Han Tun is a social scientist and anthropologist, and he is also a human rights defender from...

Mentoring & Coaching as effective tool to advance human dignity, with Vicki Prais 17.02.2025 16:23

Today’s topic is around the importance of supporting and nourishing each person’s individual strengths to improve the impact of human dignity work. Providing those you work with or participating yourself in opportunities for training and capacity building is one of the mainstream ways how to better identify and use your individual strengths. Another still very much unexplored way in the human righ...