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

• Wolrd Leaders and Outraged Individuals Support AP Campaign
• Learning Partners Links Schools in Afghanistan and the US, Brings "Authentic" Learning

• Interns Brief Ambassadors on the Needs of Civil Society in their Countries
• Advocacy Project "Among the Best Small Charities in Washington," Says New Philanthropic Guide

• Networking Helps Srebrenica Weavers Win their First Major International Order for Carpets
• Dalit Advocates Fight Prejudice and Superstition in the Villages of Nepal

• New Advocacy Group Empowers Women Election Candidates in Afghanistan
• Discrimination, Displacement and Determination Mark Sri Lanka Tsunami Relief Effort

• Arson Fails to Damplen Enthusiasm for Girls Education in Remote Afghanistan
• Italian Group Uses 'Street Units' to Protect Victims of Sex Trafficking

• 7,900 People from 90 Countries Demand Arrest of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic
• Showdown Looms as Advocates Seek to Avert Violent Eviction of 600 Travelers in the UK
• Travelers Face Eviction Despite Intervention

• Guns, Drugs and "Zero Tolerance" Spur Organized Armed Violence by Children in 10 Countires, Warns New Study
• Uganda and UN Deny Assistance to Urban Refugees in Kampala, Charges Ugandan Advocacy Group

• Arrest The Srebrenica Killers
• Women Advocates Call on Afghan Religious Leaders to Condemn Violence Against Women in the Name of Islam

• English Gypsy Women Warn of Possible "Deaths" from Forcible Evictions, and Appeal for International Meditation
• Death Squad Warning as Repression in Nepal Deepens
• Weaving Center in Srebrenica Brings Hope and Income as Tenth Massacre Anniversary Approaches

• Experiment in Community Education Puts 554 Afghan Girls in School
• Sarayaku Indians to Confront Ecuador Over Oil Exploration at Inter-American Human Rights Hearing

• 200 Nepalese Activists Flee to India as Emergency Deepens in Nepal

• AP Partner in Sri Lanka Launches Appeal for Tsunami Victims
• Community Relief Effort in Sri Lanka Uses Tsunami Disaster to Build a New Life for Victims of Discrimination
• World Bank Asked to Intervene Following Arrest of Guatemalan Community Leader
• Roma Evictions Erupt Across Europe as New "Decade" Seeks to end Discrimination