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The Advocacy Project has been working since 1998 to strengthen the capacity of organizations that are working for human rights and peace in societies in conflict. Your financial contribution will help us support our partners’ efforts to build just societies. You can make your donations online or by mail. We accept donations from all ...
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Caste discrimination continues to blight the lives of Nepal’s Dalits. The Jagaran Media Center (JMC), an AP partner, is using its national network of Dalit journalists to expose discrimination in the villages of Nepal. Since the beginning of the partnership, AP has used its Peace Fellows to help organize and train the reporters. ...
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Dale Farm is located in the district of Basildon in southeast England. Four hundred travelers reside in the area, but since 2000 they have been denied permission to plan on their land by the local Basildon Council, siting that DF lies in the "Green Belt," an area of land around London that is protected from development. If the High Court rules...
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Working through Peace Fellows, AP has been working with survivors of the notorious 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia to produce a memorial quilt, and use the quilt to promote an agenda of social justice and reconciliation. In the past year, the Srebrenica Memorial Quilt, which was created by weavers from Bosnian Family (BOSFAM), an AP ...
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Thousands of children in Nairobi live on the streets and are exposed to abuse and poverty. AP Fellows have helped 17 of these children to post their blogs and express themselves on the World Wide Web. This has created huge demand among other children. In 2009, the Udugu Society will help more children participate in this exciting Digital Storyte...
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600,000 women in Nepal have been marginalized by the debilitating and humiliating condition of uterine prolapse. Working through Peace Fellows, AP has been drawing attention to the condition for over a year – and the results are encouraging. The government is promising to greatly expand surgeries and has allocated funding for 12,000 surger...
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Help massacre survivors in Guatemala to launch a memorial quilt and develop a handicrafts cooperative among affected indigenous communities Survivors from the 1982 Rio Negro massacres in Guatemala have followed the example of the Srebrenica survivors in Bosnia and woven a quilt commemorating the massacre victims. In 2009, AP will work wi...
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AP’s partner in Delhi, the Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, is helping wastepickers to organize, recycle and claim their rights - and in the process offset emissions of carbon that are produced by landfills and garbage. In 2009, with the help of two Peace Fellows, AP and Chintan will help a wastepicker community to take...
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The Blind Education and Rehabilitation Organization (BERDO), an AP partner in Bangladesh, helps people with disabilities to become full members of their community through microcredit and education projects. Working through Peace Fellows, AP has invested heavily in BERDO, by visting beneficiaries, promoting the microcredit model, launching an app...
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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...
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Peace Fellows help give a voice to community-based groups around the globe. They train partners to produce, disseminate and use information, and in the process strengthen their advocacy efforts. AP’s fellowship/internship program has grown fast since it began in 2003 with eight students from three universities. This year, AP hopes to sen...
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Help the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) identify the remains of Peru's missing persons and work with their relatives In the summer of 2008, AP and its Peace Fellow helped EPAF exhume the largest mass grave ever uncovered in Peru. AP is now helping EPAF to promote its work in the United States and to help relatives of the disappea...
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