A Voice For the Voiceless

MISSION

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

2008

July

• Women Advocates Place Gender and Guns on the UN's Agenda, July 23, 2008
• Women in Bosnia and Serbia Hail the Arrest of Radovan Karadzic, July 22, 2008
• Grieving Relatives Seek Closure as University Massacre Victims are Reburied in Peru, July 18, 2008
• Srebrenica Memorial Quilt Visits the U.S. Capitol as Massacre Victims are Reburied in Bosnia, July 14, 2008
• True Love Collides With Caste Discrimination in Nepal's Villages, July 9, 2008

• Heroism of Conflict Survivors Inspires New Program in Central Africa, June 30, 2008
• Wastepicker Children Face Discrimination from Private School in India, June 20, 2008
  
• Justice is Bittersweet as Killers are Sentenced for 1982 Massacre in Guatemala, June 16, 2008
• Women on the March as Global Action Week Targets Gun Violence, June 6, 2008
• Relatives Seek Justice as Peru’s Largest Mass Grave is Exhumed, June 4, 2008

• 34 Peace Fellows to Tackle Landmines, Gun Violence and Injustice in 21 Countries, May 29, 2008
• Israeli-Palestinian Advocacy Group Protests Detention of Palestinian Activist May 23, 2008
• Forensic Team Seeks to Exhume 120 Victims of Peru's Dirty War May 21, 2008
• Britain's High Court Lifts the Threat of Eviction from the Dale Farm Travellers, May 13, 2008
• Defiant Travellers Open Community Center as Britain's High Court Prepares to Rule on Their Eviction, May 5, 2008

• Nepal Women and Dalit Ride into Parliament on Maoist Coattails, April 24, 2008
• Women, Dalit Seek Change From Historic Elections in Nepal, April 9, 2008

• The Washington Post Features AP's Coverage of the Dale Farm Eviction Crisis, March 12, 2008
• Serbian Government Bans Peace March Commemorating International Women's Day Amidst Kosovo Backlash, March 10, 2008
• Advocates Draw on Communities to Free Enslaved Pygmies in Eastern Congo, March 6, 2008

• Srebrenica Memorial Quilt Doubles in Size, Inspires International Arrest Campaign, February 19, 2008
• Dale Farm Eviction Crisis Reaches the British High Court, February 14, 2008

• Advocates On Wheels Take Their Campaign Against Disappearances to the Nepal Countryside, January 22, 2008
• Successful Holiday Appeal Exceeds Target, Raises $15,555 for Survivors, January 18, 2008
• 2007 Round-up: AP Partners Struggle for Social Justice on Five Continents, January 2, 2008