A Voice For the Voiceless

The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change.

We are currently recruiting graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.

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"I look at myself as having the potential to be as strong and caring as the amazing women I met in Kenya."

Kate Cummings (Tufts University) volunteered in 2009 as a Peace Fellow for Vital Voices in Africa.

For more 2009 feedback click here.

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Help Free Badja (Slaves) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

With support from Peace Fellows, AP has publicized the efforts of WPIO to campaign for the scandalous slavery of pygmies in the Congo and Uganda. These efforts have begun to bear fruit. Using an innovative, community-based approach, WPIO doubled the number of slaves free in 2008 - a significant increase over previous years.

WPIO has asked AP for help in meeting specific targets for 2009, and is considering a campaign to target specific mines and estates where pygmy slaves are forced to work. WPIO is also seeking to take its message to the United Nations. 

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AP Peace Fellow Juliet Hutchings (left) with a group of Batwa (pygmies) from Uganda. The Batwa have long suffered discrimination and enslavement in the Great Lakes region. WPIO works to empower indigenous people like them in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.





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