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Advocacy gone wrong: The Miss Landmine beauty pageant

Gun Rampage in Slovakia Sends a Shock Wave of Fear through Central Europe

a pageant tangent

The Worm Ladies of Kibera 2

The Worm Ladies of Kibera

A Foe of Forced Marriage Ties the Knot in Zimbabwe

ADVOCACYNET 401, January 8, 2024

2024 Peace Fellowships

2024 Start-ups and Projects

Building North-South Connections

The COVID Stitch

ADVOCACYNET 398, October 4, 2023

ADVOCACYNET 367

ADVOCACYNET 397, June 29, 2023

COVID Quilts

ADVOCACYNET 394 May 3, 2023

Uganda COVID Quilt

Competing Visions Undermine the Resettlement of Afghans in the US

Competing Visions Undermine the Resettlement of Afghans in the US

ADVOCACYNET 385 August 25, 2022

2022 Peace Fellows

Pandemics, Instagram, and Ethical International Support

The Uganda COVID Quilt

Understanding Cultures Beyond Assumptions

ADVOCACYNET 374 January 3, 2022

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Albinism Quilt

ADVOCACYNET 375 February 14, 2022

Vaccination Heroes

2022 Start-ups and Projects

The Bangladesh Covid Quilts

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Jonathan Bramell

2021 Peace Fellows

Sister Artists 2 (Kenya)

The Senegal Migrant Quilt

Heroes of Kangemi

Introduction to Mayadip

The Kenya Covid Quilt

The Wilmington COVID Quilt

Waive Vaccine Patents: The Antidote to COVID-19

2021 Start-ups and Projects

Liberia may have been creating its own covid-19 ticking time-bomb; is it exploding now?

WASH at St. Martin’s Primary School: Addressing the Accessibility Gap

The 19th Amendment Quilt

Project Name (Can Be Longer)

Blogs (New Fellows)

American Quilters

The Arlington COVID Quilt

How we support partners

The Nepal COVID Quilt

Our 2021 Work Plan

The Nepal Tiger Quilts

Quilts by Topic

Middle Eastern Refugee Quilts

Forever Haunted By The Disappeared

The Maasai Rehema Widows’ Quilt

Ezoza Ismailova

Sister Artists 1 (Mali)

“Where are you from?” to “Where is your place?”

Conception to Implementation

A Seed for Prosperity and Family

Joseph the Artist

Immediate friends

The Bardiya Memorial Quilts

The Glorious View Ahead

Nathan Charles

Remembering the Disappeared in Nepal

Ain Leuh Weaving Cooperative – Morocco

Peace Fellowship Application

2019 Openings

Supporting Innovation

The Subornogram Foundation – Bangladesh

The Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indeginous Management (SATIIM) – Belize

Chintan – India

East and Central African Association for Indigenous Rights (ECAAIR) – Uganda

The Dale Farm Housing Association – United Kingdom

The Jagaran Media Center (JMC) – Nepal

Home for Human Rights (HHR) – Sri Lanka

National Network of Families Disappeared and Missing in Nepal (NEFAD) – Nepal

Leros Solidarity Network (LSN) – Greece

The Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR) – Greece

The Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center (DWRC) – Palestine

The Alternative Information Center (AIC) – Israel

Blind Education and Rehabilitation Development Organization (BERDO) – Bangladesh

Association for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (AEPD) – Vietnam

Gulu Disabled Persons Union (GDPU) – Uganda

Gideon Foundation Against Child Sacrifice – Uganda

The Oruj Learning Center – Afghanistan

The Kakenya Center for Excellence (KCE) – Kenya

Backward Society Education (BASE) – Nepal

Sini Sanuman (“Healthy Tomorrow”) – Mali

SOS Femmes en Danger (SOSFED) – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Care Women Nepal (CWN) – Nepal

The Kosova Women’s Network (KWN) – Kosovo

Centre for Agro-Ecology and Development (CAED) – Nepal

The Women’s Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON) – Nigeria

The International Roma Women’s Network (IRWN) – Europe

The Association Bosnian Family (BOSFAM) – Bosnia

Afghan Women’s Network (AWN) – Afghanistan

The Coalition for Gun Control – Canada

Citizens’ Constitutional Forum (CCF) – Fiji

Ending Tribal Conflict in Kenya

Middle Eastern Refugee Quilts

Advocacy Quilts landing

Kushma Chaudhari

Belmati Tharu

Installing Accessible Toilets at Schools in Uganda

Partners

It’s All in the Details

Bringing Peace to warring pastoralists in northwest Kenya

Ain’t I a Refugee?

GDPU

Fellowship #11: Leros

Awach Project Update

About Us

Looking Back on Ten Weeks at Peace Labs

Fellowship #8 CONCERN

Fellowship #7 CRP

Fellows for Peace landing

Love Blankets – BASE

Henna Pride Quilts – Vikalp Women’s Group

Wastepickers Quilt – Chintan Environmental Action and Research Group

River Gypsy Quilt – Subornogram Foundation

The Moroccan Amazigh Quilt – Ain Leuh weaving cooperative

Alafia Quilts- Sini Sanuman

Srebrenica Memorial Quilts – BOSFAM

The Gulu Disability Quilt – GDPU

The Ahadi (Promise) Quilts – SOSFED

Srebrenica Dispatches (2000-2008)

Global Movement for Children archives (2002)

Youth and HIV/AIDS in Africa (2001-2002)

Embroidery Training

Soap Training

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Empowering Survivors of Sexual Violence in Mali

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Annual Reports

Reflecting on my time working with CONCERN-Nepal

A Quick Word on Agent Orange

Creating Allies and Advocates at Ogul

Advocacy Quilting: A Labor of Love by CPI’s Beneficiaries

Ambiguous Grief

Success stories: introducing Ekaman Shrestha

Landslide

Voices of the Opposition: Fighting for Change & Hoping for Peace in Kenya

Supporting Agent Orange Caregivers in Vietnam

Quilt Exhibitions

“It’s our right to know where they went.”

Checking In with Mai Thi Loi

Destination: Kathmandu (and a couple of layovers)

Travesty of Justice in Nepal

Inshallah: A Final Dispatch

How Isaiah Sees Violence – Including that of his own Father

Microblog & Podcast: The Importance of Hearing

Podcasts

Poverty Worse Than Terrorism in Mali: C’est La Misère Ici!

Exhausted

The Stories We Tell

War

A Glimpse into a Life with Uterine Prolapse

Back to the Start

Investing in Our Future

Memory, activism, and quilting in Bardiya

The Wait

Goats, Soaps, and HTML: Pro-Tips for Peace Fellow Prep

Peace Fellowship Training: A Week of Firsts

Mr. Xoan’s story (Part I)

“We Don’t Have a Problem; We Live in Peace”

Good Morning, Vietnam

Using SEO Link Building Gives You A Major Advantage Online

June 20: World Refugee Day and Mali Peace Deal

When 8,372 is not enough.

Preparations and Expectations

NESPEC CELEBRATES AND EDUCATES ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS

News from Bamako

Huallhua

WOMEN AT WORK

KIWOI Executive Director Recognized in Top 40 Most Inspirational Women in Uganda

Status Update

An Intercontinental Partnership to Address Agent Orange

Those (un)timely words on Moroccan women…

Gratitude.

MAKING NOISE FOR NI’LIN

Fighting the culture of impunity in Nepal

GUNS ARE MORE DEADLY

FINAL REFLECTIONS

THANK YOU!

Issue 6: Gender, Youth and AIDS

On the Record against AIDS in Africa

Youth Against AIDS old partner draft

Meet Shiva, JMC Social Media Coordinator

SWAN’s song: A meeting with a potential partner NGO

Our Quilting Adventures

A Land of Stories

Hello, Kathmandu.

Heading to Gujarat, India

Incredible India

Indigenous Rights

2013 – SOSFED/War Rape in DRC

Home OLD

THE WOMEN UPON WHOM EVEREST SMILES

SO MUCH FOR THAT CUSHY DAY JOB

CHANGEMAKERS: WHO DRIVES WRRP AND WHAT DRIVES THEM

QUILTER PROFILE: LONG NGRU

QUILTER PROFILE: CAO THI MEN

MAKING THE MOST OF MY TIME…AND AN INTERVIEW WITH SHAHED KAYES

CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS: MY THOUGHTS FROM NEPAL

WOMEN’S PROGRESS IS HUMAN PROGRESS

B’SALAMA AIN LEUH

COMPUTER LITERACY IN AIN LEUH

A BEDTIME STORY

A TYPICAL DAY AT THE COOPERATIVE

IT IS FINISHED!

“TRIANGLING” WITH YOUNG PALESTINIAN ENTREPRENEURS

TRIBAL CULTURE IN RURAL GUJARAT

So… Why Vancouver?

FIRST DAYS IN VIETNAM

Following My Heart: Stopping Child Sacrifice in Uganda

Future KCE Pilots Dream to be Connected to the Rest of the World

Election Day Plus One

Sud Kivu Election Diary IV: Joseph Kabila comes to town

Fighting Indifference one Conversatorio at a Time

A Few Words on Ethics and Advocacy

Grassroots Advocacy: Interview with Anju Rai

BACK TO SCHOOL

Ciro Castillo and the Unrelenting Search for One Disappeared

UNFPA data-mapping: Where’s the Beef?

Sweet Soweto

81 Members of Congress to Visit Israel on Sponsored Trip

Hope for the Future

Hope for the Future

Anatomy of an Advocacy Journalism Project

A Child Club Unites To Support A Former Child Laborer

Tanzania, Ndovu, and Marketing

Meet the Volunteers of the Gideon Foundation Against Child Sacrifice

“Gypsy Taxi” driver

A Visit to the Museum of Romani Culture

A Visit to the Museum of Romani Culture

Partners: AP and Hakijamii

Veterans, Tattoos, and Bonsai Trees

Wretched Travel

Advocacy Quilt, the Beginning

There are many ways to protect the green belt. Evicting Dale Farm Travellers is not one of them.

Counselor Caroline’s crusade to rescue girls

Quilting for Advocacy: The Beginning

Quilting for Advocacy: The Beginning

Support Dale Farm Travellers

A (Brief) History of the Railroad Expansion and Its Woes

Education and Religion

First Day of School

Adventures in Cooking

The King Beekeeper of Quang Binh

Bureaucracy and Bolsheviks

The elephant in the room, screaming for attention: South Asia’s environmental problem

U Tuzli (In Tuzla)

Funding a Country

Namaste!

Maze of Housing Rights

A Different Media Landscape

STORY BEHIND THE STORY

Back in Kathmandu

First Impressions of Kathmandu

Easter with Siew Lian

Goodbye Canada

CHILD LABOR: DID YOU KNOW?

Why is local prejudice against Dale Farm Travellers so acceptable?

Start your engines

One Month in Enoosaen

Kikoze 3-26-11 [post modified on 5-22-11]

Qing Ming

Tragedy at the Towngate

Latest about the Dale Farm situation in the news

“They are making us look like some sort of aliens…”

Big Fat Gypsy Weddings

Return

Romea: Countering Stereotypes and Building Bridges through Media and Education

Goodbye and thank you all

Last Lessons from Nepal

Farewell Kenya!

Quilting With a Mission

American Neocon-Christian Right Ideology Makes Inroads into Czech Politics with PM’s Advisor Choice

140-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOR IRANIAN MINORITY

Working to Stop Evictions in Kibarani Settlement, Mombasa, Kenya

Applying Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach to BASE’s Child Friendly Village Model

Sabita and Sima

Is an opportunity an opportunity?

South Kivu Travel Agency

Seizing the Opportunity: An Interview with Romani News Anchor Richard Samko

Matters of the Heart: A conversation with Romani radio personality Iveta Demeterová

A Hotbed of Innovation

CBWN reaching out to members

Hope for lasting memory

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS

Do we need advocacy on behalf of activists?

From global to local: Survivor Corps Vietnam becomes the Association of Empowerment for Persons with Disabilities (AEPD)

Katiba ni sasa (the constitution is now)

Gun Control in Canada: A History (Part 1)

Czechs’ Response to Rising Extremism: Prevention through education?

Dale Farm: A Community in Transition

patience is a virtue…

Sri Lanka Voices: M.I.A.

Much preparation and few expectations

Contrast of Settings… Keeping the heart open.

Pre-departure notes

AP Summer Fellowship: Here we go!

Getting to know Tuzla/LSN Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH)

Exploring Sarajevo

Return to Srebrenica

Words to action: the humanitarian umbrella

State of Baluchis

Dr. Kaveh Farrokh

Breaking the Wall of Silence and National Reconciliation

Asgharzadeh Interview (Part 2)

Dale Farm Residents and Supporters Protest Against Eviction

More blogs!

Authorities speak about armed domestic violence…

Ethnologue quick update

Despanfletizate Festival in Aguablanca

“At least 82 women were killed by gender-based violence in the first half of this year in Argentina”

BUKAVU, ANY DAY

Welcome

I am Helen Ruth Akello!

The Root of Kenyan 2007-2008 Post-Election Violence

“A voice for the voiceless”, local, feminist-style

“You have made us go boom”

ENOUGH traveling…

Rio Negro Memorial Textile Displayed for Adoptive Families

But What About the Youth? [Part 2]

DDV Campaign: The enormity of the issue

Bonjour Bujumbura!

A Veteran of the Women and Child Protection Unit

PROFILE: The Chairman and the treasurer in RFH Eldoret Mentorship Program

Sustainable Ingenuity

Envisioning the Light at the End of the Plan

Some links I liked

From Trauma to Training: Meet Adelite

Accusations of Pan-Turkism

La violence domestique, une maladie de société qu’il faut diagnostiquer

Jump aboard.

Silvia Lagos

Breaking the Wall of Silence

Said Matinpour arrested and serving 8 years at Evin Prison

What is a Survivor?

Assessment Phase: Understanding Women Traders’ Needs

Microprojects in the Country

No romanticisation. No condemnation.

Two new bloggers…

Recap on Disarming Domestic Violence Campaign Launch Activities

Sur le Terrain~ On the Ground (Part 2)

an unparalleled first impression

Pre-Departure “Sensibilisation” and Intro Video

The Lament of the Demobilised

All Eyes on Iran

Introducing Survivor Corps’ Partners: THARS – Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Services

La Mia Sfida

Lindsey, meet Bogotá. Bogotá, Lindsey.

Resurrection

NON VENIRE – GLI ITALIANI VOGLIONO DISTRUGGERTI

Basildon Council to Negotiate with Travellers

Armed domestic violence: “ Oh yeah, that SERBIAN issue…”

Transitional Justice Summary

Time Flies

Touchdown Buenos Aires!

IBUKA Means Memory

Blogging is cool

Update: Basildon Council Takes Steps Toward Dale Farm Eviction

Out of the Darkness

First Impressions

Where The Streets Have No Name

You’re going WHERE?!

New Srebrenica Mass Grave Discovered

Molto emozionata!

Onward to Ramallah

My bags are packed and I’m ready to go…

The First Blog Thing

And So it Begins!

So Excited!

AP Joins Push to Double International Volunteers by 2010

AP Welcomes New Board Member

Travellers Face Eviction after Lords Reject Appeal

Interviewing Landless in the Terai

Gearing up for India

Drops in the River

Tabula Rasa

Mt. Holyoke Chapter Hosts Forum on Educating Afghan Girls

Donate to put Flip Cameras in the hands of all 2009 Fellows and their Partners

Mass Grave Exhibit Travels to Denver

Civil Society Marks Genocide Prevention Month

AP Presents Guatemalan Quilt at University of Maryland

AP’s Mount Holyoke Chapter Hosts Discussion on Gaza

First Victims of Peruvian Massacre Identified

Nepali Photographers Debut Work in Washington

Más Una Mirada Crítica

Peace Fellow Organizes Event to Help Disabled IDPs in Uganda

Nepal’s Dalit Need Affirmative Action, Advocate Says

Che Casino!

What a Mess!

My Challenge

DON’T COME – THE ITALIANS WANT TO DESTROY YOU

Going Public

EU Parliament Officially Recognizes Srebrenica Genocide

Tragic Landslide near Chixoy Dam in Central Guatemala Kills Dozens

Palestinian Women Appeal to UN, Sarkozy for Gaza Ceasefire

Women in Nepal Face Delay for UP Surgeries

ADIVIMA and AP Launch ‘One More Loom’ Fundraising Campaign

Photo Exhibit Portrays Lives of Nepali Women

BOSFAM Founder Joins Call to Prevent Genocide

Srebrenica Quilt Displayed in Massachusetts and Washington

AP Fellow Raises $1,170 for Blind Students in Bangladesh

AP Launches End-of-Year Fundraising Appeal

Three More Victims of Accomarca Massacre Exhumed

Advocacy Project Welcomes New Board Members

Digital Storytelling Project Featured at Kenyan Youth Forum

Wastepickers’ Livelihoods Threatened at Ghazipur Landfill

Caribbean Countries Push for Arms Trade Treaty

EPAF Experts Testify at Fujimori Trial

UN Meets With Civil Society to Discuss Arms, Sustainable Development

Civilians in Crisis as Combat Resumes in Congo

Women in Black Condemn Attacks on Queer Festival

Bosnian Film Highlights Art as a Means Toward Reconciliation

EPAF Director Featured in Washington Post Article

Village in Nepal Declares Itself “Untouchability-Free”

Clothing Exhibition Helps in Identifying Putis Victims

Singing Competition Highlights Women’s Issues in Nepal

Bosnian and Malaysian Women Expand Businesses Online

Israeli Human Rights Organizations Demand Justice in Ni’lin

Rural Radio Program Celebrates One Year on the Air

Jagaran Media Center Launches 25-part Television Series to Lobby for Dalit Rights

European Court OKs Separation of Roma Students in Croatia

Czech Nationalist Party Unveils Plan to Forcibly Remove Roma

Blind students get surgery, chance to see better

The First Rio Negro Memorial Textile

Small-Scale Efforts for a Worldwide Problem

TRIP Day 3: Villages, health care, weather

Thoughts and Preparations

Parting Thoughts

Women at Work

TRIP Day 1: “I remember green, blue and red”

Reflections, returns.

Heading Home

Anticipation

Working with the Uterine Prolapse Alliance: Keeping the faith

Czech Nationalists Conjure Hitler with a ‘Final Solution’ to the “Gypsy Problem”

Story in the Baton Rouge, LA newspaper: part II

The Birth of a New Settlement ?!

Headscarves and Debut Interviews

Voices of Kenya’s Vulnerable Children and Youth

Me? A Teacher?

Mobilize! Organize! Resist!

A Site of Their Own

Welcome to Addis Ababa

Starting work with the Uterine Prolapse Alliance

Is El Salvador Really Mine Free? June 30, 2008: “Explosion hurts four children in Chalatenango…”

What’s News In Peru – Take Two

The downward spiral begins

Children Scream “Zoooooo”!!!!!

Why Care About Women’s Rights?

Making Noise for Ni’lin

Pascal, Freddy and their Mission: The Beginning

And the work begins…but not before a little fun!

Eurovision in Belgrade: Camp and Contradiction

Closer to Reality

Ready for Take Off!

Getting Ready for India

Episode One: Predeparture

Attempts at preparation..

Standing to Participate

STANDING TO PARTICIPATE

NESPEC Celebrates and Educates about Human Rights

Gone, And A Cloud In My Heart

one world

Eat to struggle

The Dichotomy of Development Slaps You in the Face

War Criminal Radovan Karadzic Arrested in Serbia

Victory

The pitfall of quick and easy ICT

First blog entry

So you wanna know more about sex trafficking?

sweating under occupation

Kosovo’s Constitution and the Political Situation

Bush v. Rajapaksa

Seasick