A Voice For the Voiceless
The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.
- Abisola Adekoya and Vital Voices – Nigeria
- Adrienne Henck and BASE
- Annika Allman and Vital Voices – Uganda
- Brooke Blanchard and The Undugu Society of Kenya
- Christine Marie Carlson and the Gulu Disabled Persons Union
- Christy Gillmore and Hakijamii
- Dara Lipton and Vital Voices – Kenya
- Josanna Lewin and Vital Voices – Ghana
- Joya Taft-Dick and Vital Voices – Cameroon
- Karin Orr and the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF)
- Kate Bollinger and the Women's Reproductive Rights Program
- Laila Zulkaphil and BOSFAM
- Louis Rezac and Hakijamii
- Oscar Alvarado and The Coalition for Gun Control
- Peju Solarin and the Association for the Defense of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners in Iran (ADAPP)
- Simon Kläntschi and Landmine Survivor's Network - Vietnam
- Sylvie Bisangwa and SOS Femmes en Danger
- Tereza Bottman and the Dzeno Association
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Laila Zulkaphil and BOSFAM
Georgetown University
Laila Zulkaphil will be an Advocacy Project Peace Fellow in Bosnia during the summer of 2010. She will work with BOSFAM, a Tuzla-based organization that provides economic and psychosocial support for the widows of Srebrenica. She will focus her fellowship on the Srebrenica Memorial Quilt project, in which the women of BOSFAM weave traditional Bosnian carpets to commemorate the more than 8,000 men and boys killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. These quilts help to keep the memory of the massacre alive, serve as a human rights advocacy tool around the world, and provide income generation for the weavers of BOSFAM.
Laila was born and raised in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and her family originally comes from Kazakhstan. She is pursuing a MA in Conflict Resolution with a concentration in Human Rights at Georgetown University. She was awarded a full Arrupe Scholarship for Peace to undertake her graduate studies at Georgetown. In addition to her master’s degree, she is pursuing a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. Laila graduated the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) as a salutatorian in 2009 with a BA in Political Science and International Relations and a minor in European Studies. She received a full Soros Scholarship for her four years of study at AUBG. Laila was honored for her senior thesis, “Institutional Approach to United Nations Peacekeeping Failures: A Comparative Study of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda.”
Laila is currently interning at the Advocacy Project and researching on the genocide survivors in Bosnia and girls’ education and women’s rights in Afghanistan. Her research interests are international human rights and humanitarian laws, refugees and internally displaced persons, post-conflict peacebuilding and reconciliation, and Islam and terrorism. She speaks English, Russian, Kazakh, Mongolian, and Bulgarian.
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