For all its intrinsic drama and even danger, human rights work is about hard work, perseverance, careful monitoring, and reporting. If the monitoring and reports are not used, they are useless. This is well known to the seminar participants, who have interviewed hundreds of damaged and abused women across the region. This group had much practical experience to share with each other. Indai Sajor insisted that successful monitoring must start with a clear sense of the goals.
Documentation is essential in seeking redress, particularly legal redress.
Laws must be made responsive to the needs of women, including the need to end violence in the family. The definition and understanding of human rights must be amplified, to outlaw new forms of violence against women and re-define them as political rights. The state must assume more responsibilities in protecting women. NGOs, civil society, and governments need to work together. Build the legal case against violators, and lobby governments to make laws.