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

2006

November

• Traveler Evictions in the UK are "Hazardous to Environment and Children's Health" Claim Advocates
• Dzeno-NYU Partnership Provides Model for Year-Round Internship Programs
• Israeli-Palestinian Advocacy Group Calls for Immediate Release of Detained Colleague

• Afghan Women's Network Deplores Murder of Prominent Women's Advocate and Expresses Resolve
• Afghan Women Denounce 'Un-Islamic' Attcks Against Women and Launch 13-Point Plan to Improve Security in Afghanistan
• Liechtenstein Government Pledges $20,000 to Train 60 Afghan Teachers and Support Girl's Education
• New Survey Finds Roma Parents Enthusiastic About Secondary Education in the Czech Republic

• Dalit Diaspora Calls for 20 Percent Dalit Representation in New Nepal Government
• Technology Helps Disadvantaged Malaysian Women to Fight Discrimination and Work from Home
• Protest Rally in Nepal Follows Beating of 60 Dalit Trying to Worship in a Hindu Temple
• Human Rights Group in Sri Lanka, Accuses Government and Rebels of More than 1,000 Extrajudicial Killings

• New Regional Women's Peace Lobby Calls for Speedy Vote in Kosovo
• Dalit Advocacy in Nepal Spurs the UN to Investigate Discrimination at the Water Pump

• Srebrenica Weavers Mark Massacre Anniversary with Grief and a New Sponsorship Program
• Home for Human Rights Helps Families Identify Headless Bodies in Sri Lanka
• AP Interns Delve Deeper into Local Cultures
• New Israeli Barrier Seeks to Circumvent Supreme Court Ruling, Claim Advocates

• Serbian and Kosovor Women Call for an End to 'Religious Ownership' of Kosovo's Churches and Mosques
• Roma Advocactes Sue the Danish Red Cross, Claim that Detention of Asylum Seekers Violates the UN Torture Convention
• US State Department Ignores Trafficking to the United States, Say Nigerian Anti-Trafficking Advocates
• AP Interns Confront the Challenges of their Assignments
• Disadvantaged Malaysian Women Use Eco-Baskets to Take their Message to the World
• Israeli-Palestinian Advocacy Group Condemns Gaza Invasion

• Palestinian Unions Criticise “Blackmail” by Donors and Call on Hamas to Protect Worker Benefits

• Human Rights Monitor Beaten and Disabled People Detained as Nepalese Regime Seeks to Suppress Democracy Protests
• The West's strategy in Palestine Will Weaken Civil Society
• Death in Nepal - A HUMAN RIGHTS MONITOR BLOGS FROM THE FRONTLINES

• Kosovar Women Call for Inclusion in Peace Process
• Russian Roma Face Eviction in the Arctic as Eviction “Epidemic” Spreads in Europe
• US Must Join UN Rights Council and Change Detention Policies, Says Editorial

• Dalit Women Accused of  Witchcraft, Forced to Eat Excrement
• Mass Arrests as Nepal Slips Back into Repression and Violence
• Tsunami Relief Effort Seeks to Reach Women in Sri Lanka as Violence Grows

The Advocacy Project
1326 14th Street NW
Washington DC 20005
phone: +1 202-332-3900
fax: +1 202-332-4600