A Voice For the Voiceless

MISSION

The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice

2005

December 15
Advocacy Project Featured in Catalogue of Philanthropy (AP's original bulletin)
Oneworld United States

October 19
Genocide Survivors to Sell Carpets Online (AP's original bulletin)
Oneworld United States

October 16
Networking Helps Srebrenica Weavers Win their First Major International Order for Carpets (AP's original bulletin)
Oneworld Southeast Europe

October 6
Sri Lanka: AP Diaries Asia - Back to the Sea (AP's original diary)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

September 29
Discrimination, Displacement and Determination Mark Sri Lanka's Tsunami Relief Effort (AP's original bulletin)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

September 16
New Advocacy Group Empowers Women Election Candidates in Afghanistan (AP's original bulletin)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

August 12
Afghan Women Struggle for Political Determination (AP's original blog)
Oneworld United States

August 4
Sri Lanka: Dispatch #11 - Expansion of the Tsunami Relief Project (AP's original information)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

August 1
Arson Fails to Dampen Enthusiasm for Girls Education in Remote Afghanistan (AP's original bulletin)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

July 29
Travellers Face Eviction in UK Despite High Court Intervention (AP's original bulletin)
Oneworld United States

June 28
Advocacy Project Interns Report from the Field (AP's original bulletin)
Oneworld United States

June 21
Uganda and UN Deny Assistance to Urban Refugees in Kampala (AP's original bulletin)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

June 13
Sri Lanka: Dispatch #10 - Rehabilitation Projects Underway in Poonochchimunai & Cheddipalayam, Batticalao District (AP's original information)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

June 8
Srebrenica: A Call for Justice (AP's original bulletin)
NEWW - Polska

May 23
Afghanistan: Women Advocated Call on Afghan Religious Leaders to Condemn Violence Against Women in the Name of Islam (AP's original bulletin)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

May 9
Justice Demanded for Europe's Worst Massacre in 60 Years (AP's original bulletin)
Oneworld United States

May 6
AP Partner Now Supporting the Education of 892 Afghan Girls (AP's original information)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

May 6
Sri Lanka: Dispatch #8 - 2nd Report from Poonochchimunai & Cheddipalayam, Batticaloa (AP's original information)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

April 25
Death Squad Warning as Repression in Nepal Deepens (AP's original bulletin)
Ecohimal, Austria
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

March- April
Frontline Blogging and KM at The Advocacy Project
William Ives, AllBusiness

March 10
Experiment in Community Education Puts 554 Afghan Girls in School (AP's original bulletin)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

February 25
Sri Lanka: Dispatch #7 - Report from Poonochchimunai & Cheddipalayam, Batticaloa (AP's original information)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

February 15
200 Activists Flee Nepal for India as Crackdown Intensifies (AP's original bulletin)
Oneworld United States

February 10
Protest Planned Over King's Coup in Nepal (AP's original bulletin)
Oneworld United States

January 6
AP Partner in Sri Lanka Launch Appeal for Tsunami Victims (AP's original bulletin)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs


Scholarly Citations

June- July
Srebrenica: Remembrance for the Future
Daria Nashat & Katja Wittke

June
History and Development of the Communication Regulatory Agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1998-2005
Adin Sadic

March 4-5
Trafficking of Persons to Europe: The Perspective of Nigeria as a Sending Country
Vicky Nwogu, NPC (Nigeria) - ILO/PATWA


Recognition



AP is a Catalogue for Philanthropy charity. In 2005, AP was selected by the Catalogue as one of Greater Washington's best small charities. Charities were selected by a group of 50 professional grantmakers and leaders at thirty foundations and nonprofit organizations. All Catalogue for Philanthropy charities are evaluated for distinction, merit, cost-effectiveness, and accomplishment.

This is what the group said about AP:

These days it’s a commonplace: we live in an information age. What perhaps we don’t see as clearly is the way that information can empower a newly emerging civil society. Launching a campaign, building partnerships, advocating for a cause, reaching an audience - all these have enormous capacity to make change happen.

The Advocacy Project has worked on some 20 campaigns (most in countries emerging from conflict), helping its partners use new communications technologies to generate interest in and support for their causes.

Each partner is assigned an intern, receives an online news service, learns to disseminate information through up-to-date technology, and benefits from organized events with fellow advocates in North America and Europe.

The goal is to expand membership and develop community support for a wide range of projects - launching an international peace network in Nepal; responding to the human rights dimensions of the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka; advocating for the education of Afghan girls; or supporting widows of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre by helping to build a website that sells their woven carpets...online! Using information as a point of entry, and building the capacity of partners through tailored projects, means new hope for young and old alike. Your advocacy - and philanthropy - goes a long way here.