Advocacy Project Website Launch

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Advocacy Project Website Launch


Advocacy Project Announcements - http://www.advocacynet.org

Washington DC (USA) and Geneva (Switzerland)
 
January 11, 2001
 
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THE ADVOCACY PROJECT WEBSITE IS NOW OPEN FOR VISITORS
 
The Advocacy Project announces the opening today of its new web site,
aimed at supporting advocates who are working on the frontlines for
peace and human rights.
 
The site can be visited at: http://www.advocacynet.org
 
The site has been designed by AeroNet Communications (www.aeronet.net)
under the supervision of Teresa Crawford, technical director of the
Advocacy Project.
 
The Advocacy Project is a virtual organization that was created in
June of 1998 to provide e-mail coverage of the Rome conference on the
creation of an international criminal court. Since then it has evolved
into a more general effort to help advocates get their message out and
to lobby on their behalf with donors. As the website notes: 'advocates
are an excellent investment - they make a huge impact on tiny
budgets.'
 
The Advocacy Project has worked with eleven major grassroots campaigns
since 1998. Three are profiled on the new web site:
 
* The coalition of activists who have come together in Nigeria to stop
the trafficking of Nigerian women to Europe;
 
* The campaign by the Guatemalan Indigenous community of Rio Negro to
claim compensation for massacres that destroyed the community in 1982;
 
* The struggle by civil society in Kosovo to make its voice heard
during Serbian repression, war, and the 1999 invasion by humanitarian
aid agencies.
 
Among its features, the website carries back issues of the Project's
e-mail newsletter 'On the Record,' which is distributed free of charge
to thousands of subscribers. Thirteen volumes have been produced since
1998. Visitors will also find a photo archive and background material
linked to the individual campaigns.
 
As part of its goal of helping advocates, the Advocacy Project has
started to branch out into technical and other forms of support. Last
year, the Project put together an 'advocacy package' for the Women's
Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON). The AP technical director has also
worked with the US Institute of Peace to link community leaders in
Kosovo up to the Internet. More details about the services on offer
are available on the new site.
 
The Advocacy Project only works at the express invitation of
advocates, and in partnership with nongovernmental organizations. It
has received funding from a variety of foundations, NGOs and
governments.
 
The Project is currently reviewing over twenty projects for 2001,
which have been suggested by partners. These include invitations to
cover the proceedings of the special session of the UN General
Assembly on children; to profile the work of Palestinian groups that
are responding to the current violence; and to support indigenous
communities in Ecuador that have been affected by oil exploration.
 
For more information, visit the website at: www.advocacynet.org or
contact us at: [email protected].
 
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