Organization Profile: advocacyproject

Last Updated: 2009-08-18 17:10:22.0


Organization Information
  • advocacyproject
  • http://advocacynet.org/index.php
  • Washington, DC
  • 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.

  • 2007-10-01 15:06:49.0

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Icon Giving a Voice to the Voiceless

The Advocacy Project (AP) seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice. This widget promotes AP's work and links to its website.

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Icon Supporting Advocates for Peace

The Advocacy Project (AP) seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice. This widget promotes AP's work and links to its website.

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Icon 2008 AP Peace Fellow: Annelieke van de Wiel

Annelieke van de Wiel, a 2008 Advocacy Project Fellow for Peace, will be supporting an AP project that works with IDP populations in conflict-stricken Northern Uganda.

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Mackenzie Berg

As a 2008 Advocacy Project Fellow for Peace with the Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group in New Delhi this summer, Mackenzie's work will involve building a communications toolkit aimed at improving Chintan's advocacy communications;...

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Icon Advocacy Project Fellow Photo Blog

This blidget features photos taken by The Advocacy Project's 2008 Fellows for Peace, graduates students volunteering their summers to advocate for social justice around the world.

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Antigona Kukaj

Antigona Kukaj is an 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow with Survivor Corps (formally the Landmine Survivors Network) in Tuzla, Bosnia. She will be working to advance the rights of disabled war survivors who need long-term care, rehabilitation,...

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Nicole Farkouh

Nicole Farkouh returns to Nepal this summer as a 2008 Advocacy Project Fellow for Peace with Nepal’s Uterine Prolapse Alliance.

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Icon Lobby

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. This widget encourages the public to organize lobbying and...

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Chi Vu

This summer, Chi will be working with Survivor Corps (formally the Landmine Survivors Network) in Vietnam’s Quang Binh province to help the network reach a broader constituency and expand its visibility.

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Nicole Slezak

Nicole Slezak is working with the Kosova Women’s Network (KWN) as a 2008 Advocacy Project Fellow for Peace. Nicole will help the Kosova Women’s Network fulfill its mission by advocating for women’s rights through the KWN website, press...

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Hannah Wright

Hannah Wright is a 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow with the Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC) in Ramallah.

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Ola Duru

Ola will be working with the Advocacy Project’s partner eHomemakers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as a 2008 Fellow for Peace. In her position this summer she will work to devise creative problem-solving for a grassroots economic empowerment project....

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Icon 2008 AP Peace Fellow: Heather Gilberds

Heather Gilberds, a 2008 Advocacy Project Fellow for Peace, participates with the Jagaran Media Center (JMC) in a project that mandates empowerment through local, independent media production.

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Paul Colombini

This summer Paul, a 2008 Advocacy Project Fellow for Peace, will be working with the Chintan Environmental Action and Research Group in Delhi, India: an organization which advocates for the rights of informal waste recyclers. Paul hopes to help...

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Heidi McKinnon

Heidi McKinnon is volunteering in Rabinal, Guatemala as a 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow with AP's partner organization, the Association for the Integral Development of the Victims of Violence in the Verapaces, Maya Achi (ADIVIMA). Part of...

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Raka Banerjee

Raka Banerjee is a 2008 Advocacy Project Fellow for Peace working with the Nepal Social Development and People's Empowerment Center (NESPEC) in Gaighat, Nepal. Raka will be working to expand NESPEC's outreach among the surrounding community, as...

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Janet Rabin

Janet Rabin will be working as a 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow with the Women in Black Network from Serbia. She will be contributing to their mission of nonviolent resistance to militarism, war, sexism and nationalism through ICT support...

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Rebecca Chon

Rebecca Chon is working with eHomemakers as a 2008 Advocacy Project Fellow for Peace. She will spend six months with eHomemakers helping them improve the lives of disadvantaged women in the community, where she will also assist with outreach...

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Jennifer Sc

Jennifer Scott will be working with the Women's Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) in the Port of Spain, Trinidad as a 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow. WINAD promotes gender equality, small arms control, security, political...

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Shubha Bala

As a 2008 Advocacy Project Fellow for Peace, Shubha Bala will work with the Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP) this summer in Baglung, Nepal, promoting human rights through radio.

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Colby Pacheco

Colby Pacheco, a 2008 Advocacy Project Fellow for Peace, will be working with the Dženo Association, to improve the organizations’ network of communications to better inform the public of Romany issues. He will help produce publications in...

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Icon 2008 Advocacy Project Peace Fellow: Shweta Dewan

This summer, Shweta Dewan will be working as a Fellow for Peace with Bosnian Family (BOSFAM), an Advocacy Project partner organization.

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Icon 2008 Adovacy Project Peace Fellow: Jes Therkelsen

As a 2008 Peace Fellow with The Advocacy Project, Jes Therkelsen will be working with the Jagaran Media Center for three months this summer. Therkelsen's main task will be to use his media experience to help Dalit activists and journalists to...

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Icon Advocacy Project Blogs

The Advocacy Project sends out Peace Fellows to work with community-based organizations around the world. This blog lists their most recent individual blog entries.

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Icon 2008 AP Peace Fellow: Juliet Hutchings

Juliet Hutchings joins The Advocacy Project as a 2008 Peace Fellow for the World Peasants and Indigenous Organization (WPIO) based in Kampala, Uganda. Working with WPIO Director, Freddy Wangabo, in a small office housed by Amnesty International,...

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