Four-day advanced training builds human rights activists’ advocacy skills
For immediate release
6 August 2014
Cambridge – Participants representing 12 countries across five continents are in Cambridge for the annual HREA Advocacy Institute. This year’s group includes educators, humanitarian and development workers, and advocates working on issues such as children’s rights, community and land rights, the rights of persons with disabilities and the right to health in marginalised communities from Boston to Phnom Penh.
“We are thrilled to be the facilitators of this training and to have such an interesting and committed group of advocates,” says HREA’s Director Frank Elbers. “The Institute will help strengthen their advocacy skills and better equip them with tools they will use to promote and protect human rights.”
The Institute consists of a series of four days of intensive workshops on advocacy planning and implementation for human rights work. In the afternoons and evenings, attendees will have the opportunity to network with colleagues, meet with advocacy and program staff of local non-profit organisations and universities, and present on their own work.
“This year’s group brings experience and knowledge from many different parts of the globe — Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States,” adds Valerie Miller, the Institute’s lead trainer. “We will be applying knowledge and analysis gained from this course to real life cases and campaigns. We will also provide opportunities for participants to use particular planning and analytical tools to address the advocacy issues and problems they face in their own organisations and contexts.”
For more information about the Institute, please visit www.hrea.org/advocacy-institute.
HREA is one of the leading organisations worldwide dedicated to education and training in and for human rights. Each year HREA trains thousands of development and humanitarian workers, educators, human rights defenders, staff of (inter)governmental agencies, law enforcement, legal and media professionals around the world.
For further information, please contact:
Nate Weisenberg, Training Coordinator