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Tribal Dress Code Tempts Mosquitoes

Progress Against Plastic

Pastoralist Women Nurture Peace As Fighting Flares In Kenya

Competing Visions Undermine the Resettlement of Afghans in the US

Competing Visions Undermine the Resettlement of Afghans in the US

Competing Visions Undermine the Resettlement of Afghans in the US

Understanding Cultures Beyond Assumptions

Therese McCarry

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Ebola Survivors and Covid-19 Global Pandemic Response

Climate change is knocking on our door: Wildfires in Turkey

How being isolated in the community reinforced stigma and resentment against persons and families affected by the 2014-2016 Ebola crisis in Liberia

What the US-Liberia Clinical Partnership for Research on Ebola Vaccines (Virus) in Liberia, PREVAIL sought to accomplish, and what Ebola Survivors expected, left them feeling short-changed

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

Corporate Social Responsibility and State Laws

The Palestinian (Sumoud) Resilience Quilt

COVID-19 hits Zimbabwe – and how we are responding

Refugees, Resettlement and Racism

World Refugee Day 2020 – Refugees, Resettlement and Racism

US Agencies Struggle to Protect Resettled Refugees Against COVID-19

US Agencies Struggle to Protect Resettled Refugees Against COVID-19

Resilience

The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CECORE) – Uganda

Nepali Girls Will Use New Law to Resist Menstrual Banishment

Residents and Refugees Collaborate on Leros and in Amman

With Storytelling Comes Great Responsibility

Wastepickers Quilt – Chintan Environmental Action and Research Group

Preserving the Rainforest Quilts – Sarstoon Temash

The Rio Negro Massacres in Guatemala (2000)

New Accessible Toilet Inspires Ugandan School Authorities

Reflecting on… Resettlement

Success stories: introducing Ekaman Shrestha

Advocating for the sexual and reproductive health rights of women: the challenges of addressing the underlying cause of uterine prolapse in Nepal

School Rescues Children from Work in the Brick Kilns of Nepal

Remittances, dreams or nightmares?

Let’s discuss “Basic Resources”

Settlement expansion, closures in West Bank

Schools Rescue Children from Brick Bondage in Nepal

Initial Thoughts and Impressions

FIRES IN BITOLA

Adventures in Laundry

Presente

An Intercontinental Partnership to Address Agent Orange

First Impressions Video Log

GUNS WERE A TERRIFYING PRESENCE IN OUR HOME

Our Quilting Adventures

A Work (Still) In Progress: Handicap Accessible Toilet Facility

Arrival in Ain Leuh, first impression and first lesson

THE WOMEN UPON WHOM EVEREST SMILES

CULTURAL RESISTANCE: JENIN FREEDOM THEATRE

PERSONAL PROFILE: AN INTERVIEW WITH YASODA (JASI) PARMAR – PRESIDENT AND JUDGE OF NARI ADALAT WOMEN’S COURT

WOMEN’S PROGRESS IS HUMAN PROGRESS

An Azerbaijani Story Part I: The Arrests

APPENDICITIS IN BANGLADESH – AN INTERESTING WEEK

“THE ARAB WITH A CAMEL, IN AN ALI-BABA DRESS”: WHAT ISRAELI SCHOOLBOOKS SAY ABOUT PALESTINIANS

FEMMES EN DÉTRESSE

UPDATE ON PROGRESS

Ink and Color: Maasai Girls’ Lives Expressed Through Writing and Art

First Impressions: Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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

DRC Elections: A Ticking Time Bomb as Congo Awaits Results of it’s Tense and Flawed Polls

Pre-election Unrest and Pre-empted Expulsion: Precarious Times for Congolese at Home and Abroad

Speak. Encourage. Move. Curb. Understand. RESPECT.

The Story of Eve: Terror, Stigmatisation and Silent Resilience

What is sustainable community forestry? Two advocates explain

Presentation on social media, its influence, and Nepali journalism

Glenn Beck on Restoring Courage

MOISTURE, MILDEW, AND MAPPING MGAHINGA GORILLA NATIONAL FOREST

81 Members of Congress to Visit Israel on Sponsored Trip

Do You Love My Meat? Adventures in Bosnia’s Language

“Con Nuestra Memoria, Resistimos la Impunidad”

IDF Attacks the Freedom Theatre in Jenin. Is violent resistance ever justified?

A Letter to the President

Adventures in Cooking?

PROGRESS, SLOWLY SLOWLY

Palestinian Theatre as Resistance

Who are the “rescued” girls?

Counselor Caroline’s crusade to rescue girls

Cultures of Southern Belize

Adventures in Cooking

ADVENTURES IN COOKING

Roma, Ashka…what? A primer in progress

First Impressions of Kathmandu

MONUSCO response to the Kikoze mass rape

Dale Farm resident, Viviana (age 4) tells her story through photography

“Morphology and Resentment”

Ahadi Quilt Part One Officially Put to Rest

Thanks for Your Support/WordPress for Human Rights

The Challenge of Uterine Prolapse: Addressing a Human Right

Impressions from the Field

Adventures in Masai Mara

“We do not just want to have our presence serve purely as a symbol”

Freedom of the Press: How do Czech media fare?

Introducing: Marguerite Limagnack Miko, President of CBWN

First Impressions in Lima

Persons with Disabilities in Gulu! Heroes and Failures.

Czechs’ Response to Rising Extremism: Prevention through education?

Ghana Scores!

Resilience in the Face of Segregation: Slovak Roma Settlements

Chixoy Negotiations Underway with President Colom

San Antonio Panec: An INDE Resettlement Village

Arrival in Huamanquiquia: First impressions

MY IMPRESSIONS OF SERBIA

An Advocacy Project interview with the President of Fundación ArcÁngeles

En direct du “balcon des femmes”, des histoires de menaces de mort…

Preparing Future Forestry Professionals

Dale Farm Residents and Supporters Protest Against Eviction

Des vides juridiques très couteux pour les femmes

Statistical Significance: Meeting with the Women’s Directorate of Buenos Aires

Expression without violence: Iledephonse Masumbuko Sangolo

Des mères seules plus jamais seules…

Said Matinpour arrested and serving 8 years at Evin Prison

Serbian NGOs Condemn Arrest of Srebrenica Survivor

Addressing Questions / Canada Day

From an interview with Conciudadania’s Territorial Director, Benjamín Cardona…on results of Collective Action for Reconciliation project 5/8/09 in Santa Fe de Antioquia.

an unparalleled first impression

Civil Unrest in the Islamic Republic

Resurrection

Broken Windows and Burning Tires: Just Another Bandh

Touchdown Buenos Aires!

Forensic Team Urges Restraint as Tensions Grow in Peru

Nairobi: a balancing act with patience, papayas and live wires

Update: No Arrest in Beating of Dalit Woman Accused of Witchcraft

First Impressions

Motorbikes and Markets – First Impressions of HCMC

Bosnian Advocates Win Passage of US House Resolution

AP Presents Guatemalan Quilt at University of Maryland

Congresswoman Urges Clinton to Do More in Bosnia

AP Partner Urges Support for Congressional Resolution on Bosnia

Serbian NGOs Press for Commemoration of Srebrenica Genocide

Traveller Families Plan for Homelessness, Prepare to Resist

Peace Fellow to Present Quilt Made by Guatemala Massacre Survivors

Israeli Human Rights Groups Press Top Officials on Gaza

Israel Rejects Gaza Ceasefire Despite Pressure from Jewish Civil Society

President Colom Signs New Political Accord to Finalize Reparations on Chixoy Dam in 2009

WPIO Presents Findings at African Development Forum

EPAF Presents Images of Putis at Photo Exhibition

Return to Putis: EPAF resumes exhumations of mass graves

“Il faut sonner l’alarm…”-Agence France Press article, 14 October 2008

Beit Sahour Residents Take Action to Save Ush Ghrab

Bosnian Advocates and AP Launch New Petition to Arrest Ratko Mladic

Civilians in Crisis as Combat Resumes in Congo

Village in Nepal Declares Itself “Untouchability-Free”

Dalit boy hailed as hero after daring rescue

Demographics and Resources

News from the Vice President’s Office

The Resurgence of Fascism

TRIP Day 4: President of Bangladesh American Chamber of Commerce

Resettlement on de-mined land and a new advocacy campaign

Mobilize! Organize! Resist!

Residents of Pacux Deal With Poor Living Conditions in Shadow of Dam

In Palestinian Territories, Wall Divides More Than Just Cultures

First Impressions

Marinating in El Salvador, human rights research, outreach, and travel logistics…Only 3 weeks left till I am officially pickled…

Facts and Figures

Facts and Figures

Tea and Human Futures

TEA AND HUMAN FUTURES

Suresh Kewat

Suresh Kewat

(Even More) Arrested Developments

Arrested Developments

Karuna, Resham and Krishna

Peer pressured into poverty

Fires in Bitola

The Rest of the Story

Heat waves, power outages and forest fires

War Criminal Radovan Karadzic Arrested in Serbia

Making My Presence Known

Quiet Resignation

First impressions

Resam Phiri Ri

UNSC Resolution 1820

(Restricted) Freedom of Movement

We are Present!

First Impression 1

First Impression 2

Defiance of Ban Imposed by Government and Mass Arrests

Manisha, Teresa and Peter

Teresa, Laura and Peter

Peter and Teresa

Peter, Laura and Teresa

Adventures in Transportation

Labneh with a Side of Oppression

First Impressions

Time in the Tropical Rain Forest

In the Presence of Ghosts

Good Press for Good Work

Carnaval Adventures

Ramallah Responds

No Wall, However Tall: Imneizel Residents Protest the Inner Barrier

Settlement expansion, closures in West Bank

Trees Falling in a Forest

First Impressions…

First Impressions

Responses From the World Bank and IDB to Date

Initial Impressions

Tea, Oppression, and Other British Leftovers

Making Your Presence Known

First Impressions

In the Presence of Ghosts

First Impressions

First Impressions

Oppression, scorched red

Simbo Elected as ECPAT Youth Representative for Africa

A Lesson on Freedom of the Press

Small Acts of Resistance

Rethinking First Impressions

First impressions

Dirt Storms and Cloudy First Impressions

Annie Levy

Julia Davatzes

Olivia Landau

The Raven McGurll

High School Students Bear the Brunt of Enforcing a State Ban on Food Waste in Rhode Island

ADVOCACYNET 404, March 25, 2024

Madeleine Schneider

Adin Becker

Rohit Samal

The Greening of Kibera

Maddy Pound

Composting Empowers the Worm Ladies of Kibera

ADVOCACYNET 403, March 8, 2024

ADVOCACYNET 402, March 7, 2024

Sahasra Thokala

A Foe of Forced Marriage Ties the Knot in Zimbabwe

ADVOCACYNET 401, January 8, 2024

2024 Peace Fellowships

2024 Start-ups and Projects

ADVOCACYNET 399, November 28, 2023

Ruby Meador

Building North-South Connections

The COVID Stitch

Sand Painting and Wall Art Help the Fight Against Malaria

Chariot of Awareness

My Summer at Clean Ocean Access

ADVOCACYNET 398, October 4, 2023

Monsoon Nemesis

ADVOCACYNET 367

Raibari Singh – Perseverance and Hope Amidst Adversity

Humming to the Periwinkles

Witchcraft and Malaria

Bringing Green into the Settlements and Vice Versa

Passions Can Lead to Change

Textiles Are a Woman’s Best Friend

Oh, How I Love Being a Woman

Dolphin Clean-Up!

The Many Faces of Nairobi’s Informal Settlements

Diversifying Diets in Kibera

ADVOCACYNET 397, June 29, 2023

The Value of Persistence in School Composting

Composting at Barrington High School, RI

Composting at Barrington High School, RI

Fight to the Finish

Composting at Portsmouth High School

Families Of The Disappeared Challenge Human Rights Watch In Nepal

The Contents of My Pocket

Maggie Lauder

Bella Quiroa

Advika Agarwal

ADVOCACYNET 396, June 12, 2023

Cry of the Crashing Metals

Lions and Tigers and… Giraffes?!

Burke Everett

Karibu Kenya!

Maryam Rayed

COVID Quilts

Ugandan War Survivors Describe Forced Pregnancy and Marriage

ADVOCACYNET 395, May 10, 2023

ADVOCACYNET 394 May 3, 2023

ADVOCACYNET 393, February 27, 2023

ADVOCACYNET 392, February 13, 2023

ADVOCACYNET 391 January 9, 2023

2023 Start-ups and Projects

ADVOCACYNET 390 December 8, 2022

Maria Downey

ADVOCACYNET 389 November 7, 2022

ADVOCACYNET 388 October 3, 2022

ADVOCACYNET 387 September 12, 2022

Uganda COVID Quilt

ADVOCACYNET 386 August 30, 2022

Gill Rebelo

Aimee Benitez

ADVOCACYNET 385 August 25, 2022

Winding Down and Maintaining Hope Amidst Political Chaos

Saying Goodbye— My Experience with The Advocacy Project & WAP

The Importance of Storytelling: Sharing my Experience with DACA at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans

Daniel Gurevitch

Kyle Aloof

2022 Peace Fellows

Power Sharing In A Deeply Divided Place

Latrine Handover Ceremony: A Day to Remember

Opening Ceremony & Goodbyes…

Thank You and Goodbyes

Bards In The Square

Two Stickers for the Price of One

New and Improved Case Packaging

ADVOCACYNET 384 July 29, 2022

Pandemics, Instagram, and Ethical International Support

Finding a Way to Recycle and Reuse

Materials, Mangoes, and a Monkey

Handover Ceremony Preparations: Cow Shopping

The Tharu Cultural Museum

Day Five and Counting…

Coping Mechanisms to Combat Economic Challenges

Unexpected Religious Experience in Uganda

Toilet Upkeep: Preparing For the Handover Ceremony

Cow Camp: A Weekend Out in the Fora

Farewell But Not Goodbye

Pastoralist Businesswomen as Agents for Peace

Main Market: Forever Changed

The Big Dig: Engagement of Parents and the Power of Community

The Wash Challenge at Awach and GDPU’s Goals

Choice of Schools: On to Awach!

From Pokot Warrior to Peace Ambassador

Uganda: A Contrast in Style and Spirit

Hope Amidst Challenges – Reflections on Field Experience in Baragoi

In Zimbabwe Colors Matter

Women’s Work and Theories of Change

The Power of Advocacy and Solidarity

“I want to go home. I want my brother”

Behind the Scenes: Building the Women’s Entrepreneur Network

Master Trainers and Post-Training Reflection

Climate Change is Already Impacting Our Most Vulnerable

Adapting to Peace

The Dang Embroidery Training

Feelings are real. Feelings are helpful. Feelings are neither good or bad.

The Future of the Bardiya Embroidery Cooperative

Challenges of Setting Up a New Facility

Sparking Flames of Peace

ADVOCACYNET 382 June 23, 2022

How Many Hours On a Bus?

Disappearances and Stories Without an End

The Uganda COVID Quilt

First Week in Recap

ADVOCACYNET 381 June 13, 2022

Hello from an AP Peace Fellow in Nepal

Conflict, Climate Change, and CPI Kenya

Dancing, Posho, Desserts, and Sign Language

Installing Accessible Toilets in Northern Uganda – the Story Up to Now

“We’ll Go Back and Tell Our Families They’re Just Like Us!”

River Gypsy Artists Tell their COVID stories

River Gypsy Artists Describe the Impact of COVID-19 on Women Through Stitching!

The Mzungu in Kagumo

An Unforgettable Flight

ADVOCACYNET 374 January 3, 2022

Evan Cranmer

Blogs

Albinism Quilt

The Practice of Being a Student

Aimee Benitez

ADVOCACYNET 375 February 14, 2022

ADVOCACYNET 380 May 17, 2022

Vaccination Heroes

The New Gilded Age

Srijana Uprety

Daniel Gurevitch

ADVOCACYNET 376 February 25, 2022

Julia Holladay

Kyle Aloof

2022 Start-ups and Projects

The Bangladesh Covid Quilts

ADVOCACYNET 379, April 19, 2022

ADVOCACYNET 378 April 15, 2022

The Ugandan War Survivors Quilts

US Disdain for the International Criminal Court Weakens the Prosecution of War Crimes in Ukraine

Jonathan Bramell

ADVOCACYNET 377 April 4, 2022

LRA Survivor’s Quilt

Rubpan’s Fish Curry

Savannah Kopp

Duong Thi An and her children update

Duong Thi Hue and Her Daughters

Phan That and Hoang Thi Que

Sister Artists 2 (Kenya)

The Senegal Migrant Quilt

Khady Mbengue

Introduction to Mayadip

I Almost Died of COVID-19

Texas: Reproductive Rights in Crisis

Anna Braverman

Returned Migrant Raps Experience – Diardiarou Mbeugeumeu

History does not repeat, but it does rhyme.

Afghan Betrayal – How We Broke A Promise to Women and Girls in Afghanistan

Aissata Ndiaye

Hailing their confidence: Liberian women Ebola survivors conclude AP-supported embroidery storytelling project in Monrovia

Joint Ownership of Suffering from COVID-19

The Kenya Covid Quilt

Fighting Ebola and Covid-19, a Liberian health worker’s experience on both fronts

Two Women of Women in Action for Women in Northern Uganda Advocate for ICC Reparations

Pape Moussé

The Disease-Related Stigma: HIV, Ebola, and COVID-19

OPEN SARL Helps Women & Youth Create Opportunities in Thiaroye

Uganda Approves Herbal Supplements in the Fight Against COVID-19

Refugees: A Forgotten Population in the Pandemic

The Risk of Withdrawing Troops from Afghanistan

Vietnam’s New COVID Rise and What it Means

The Wilmington COVID Quilt

Improving Nutrition in Kibera One Kitchen Garden At a Time

In Memoriam: Ms. Dolly Oryem

School, Art, and Covid 19

Waive Vaccine Patents: The Antidote to COVID-19

Should Liberia, and probably West African countries affected by the 2014-2016 Ebola crisis consider paying reparations to Ebola Survivors?

European Policies Put Migrants in Danger

2021 Start-ups and Projects

How stigma has manifested among Liberian Ebola Survivors, and what the emergence of covid-19 means for them

How a “trade in human kidneys” disinformation campaign during Liberia’s Ebola Crisis meant fatal consequences even for “innocent” people

Share your Spare Vaccines; Don’t let these expire.

The Effects of COVID on Uganda and the US’s Poor

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

“Barsa wala Barsakh”

Are we really at the end of the pandemic?

Is it Ethical to be Working Abroad?

Covid-19 in Senegal: When is it the right time to travel?

“Liberia may have moved on from EVD; but we never did,” Ebola Virus Disease survivor tells me.

Georgia’s Step in the Wrong Direction

From one Outbreak to Another: What Should We Expect From a Post-Pandemic World?

My Forced Marriage

Start of an Exciting Journey

Conservation or Colonialism?

A Comedy of Errors: Travel in the Time of COVID

A New and Familiar Place

Ethical Considerations of Travel to Uganda During COVID-19

Jeremiah Gatlin

Matthew Nyanplu

Saliha Gozel

Sarina Maini

Nina Thakur

Anna Braverman

Dan Alpert

The 19th Amendment Quilt

The Student Loan Crisis

Being Asian in America

The Right Hates Cancel Culture… Until It Benefits Them

The Gamification of March

The Plastic Potato

WAP for the WIN

Vaccine Distribution Highlights Inequalities of the Pandemic

Blogs (New Fellows)

Not Enough: the United States Climate Change Policy

The Eurocentric Tendencies of Climate Change Analysis: It Is Time to Pass the Mic

A Renewed Hope

2021 Zimbabwe Peace Fellow

American Quilters

The True Costs of the D.C. Riots and What Happens Now

It’s Time to Come to Terms with What America has Always Been.

Dan Alpert

Ryan Pham

Cara Adams

The Arlington COVID Quilt

Grace McGuire

Abby Hack

Campaigns landing page

How we support partners

Women’s Rights Reaching a Climatic Cliff

The Nepal COVID Quilt

The Inequalities of Online Learning

What’s In A Name?: Kamala Harris and Non-English Names in America

Our 2021 Work Plan

Every Day Is Election Day

She Persists

The Nepal Tiger Quilts

Quilts by Topic

Middle Eastern Refugee Quilts

The Rio Negro Memorial Textile

The Ugandan Butonde (Nature) Quilt

Forever Haunted By The Disappeared

Malien Tingpalpong

Abby Stuckrath

The Maasai Rehema Widows’ Quilt

The Maasai Girls Quilt

The Zimbabwe Girls COVID Quilt

A Huge Part of My Identity is…

Ezoza Ismailova

The Tiger Bags of Bardiya

Reflections on a Remote Fellowship

Perfect Pitch and Other Misleading Assumptions About Disability

Let’s Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable

So Much More than a Blanket!

The Overlooked Perpetrator and the Unsung Heroes: How Climate Change Drives Violence Against the Land Rights Defenders who are Protecting Us All

Ode to Quilting

Challenges in the labor force for Americans with disabilities

A Global Playbook to Invest in People with Disabilities

COVID-19: My Experience of COVID-19

2020 Start-ups and projects

My Ability is What Defines Me

My Father’s Dream

International Development, Anti-racism and Black Lives Matter – Part 2: Reparations

“I Could Not Attend My Uncle’s Funeral”

Mask of Empowerment

Mary Ellen Cain

Grace McGuire

Taylor Rudtner

Ezoza Ismailova

Brigid Smith

The COVID 19 Pandemic – the disproportionate burden on PWDs

“I have no doubt you’re a very nice person. However…..”

My Journey Towards Anti-Racism

Climate Change and Conflict in Meta, Colombia: Coca Cultivation

Dear Highschoolers…