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

2006

November 13
After 18 Months, Israeli Judge to Rule on Palestinian's Detention (AP's original bulletin)
OneWorld United States

October 12
Globe Trotting Interns Advocate for Civil Society
Diplomatic Pouch

September 29
UN Asked to Investigate 1,000 Sri Lanka Killings (AP's original bulletin)
OneWorld UK
OneWorld United States

September 21
Nepal: Dalits Attacked for Attempting to Worship in Hindu Temple (AP's original bulletin)
OneWorld United States

September 19
Disabled? Single Mom? Telecommute. Even in Malaysia (AP's original bulletin)
OneWorld United States

September 1
Dalit Diaspora Calls for 20 Percent Dalit Representation in New Nepal Government (AP's original bulletin)
Nepaldalitinfo.org
OneWorld United States

August 17
Press Release on Trafficking from Nigerian to the United States (AP's original bulletin)
Humantrafficking.org

August 4 and August 7
Women's Lobby Calls for Speedy Vote on Kosovo Status (AP's original bulletin)
Balkan Witness
OneWorld United States

August 1
New Israeli Barrier 'Seeks to Circumvent Supreme Court Ruling' (AP's original bulletin)
OneWorld United States

June 20
Report Criticised for Ignoring Trafficking of Nigerian Women (AP's original bulletin)
OneWorld UK

June 19
Women Activists Arrested in Nepal
OneWorld United States

June 12
Roma Advocates Sue the Danish Red Cross (AP's original bulletin)
OneWorld UK
The Human Rights Blog

June 6
Serbian and Kosovar Women Call for an End to 'Religious Ownership' of Kosovo's Churches and Mosques  (AP's original bulletin)
Balkan Witness

May 24
Interns Take on Social Justice around the World (AP's original bulletin)
OneWorld United States

April 18
OPT: The West's Strategy in Palestine Will Weaken Civil Society (AP's original bulletin)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

April 7
Beating, Arrests as Nepali Clampdown Continues (AP's original bulletin)
OneWorld UK

March 23
If US Wants on New UN Rights Council, Could It Get Elected? (AP's original bulletin)
OneWorld United States

January 24
Tsunami Relief Effort Seeks to Reach Women in Sri Lanka as Violence Grows (AP's original bulletin)
ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs


Scholarly citations

July 2-5
Joanna Richardson
"An Examination of the Treatment of Gypsies and Travellers: Human Rights in an Expanding Europe?"
Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia

January 1
James McGann and Mary Johnstone
"The Power Shift and the NGO Credibility Crisis"
International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law