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In this short piece advocacy lead, Gail Petty, introduces Advocacy Awareness Week and how we can demonstrate impact in advocacy services.

We've pulled together some of the Advocacy Awareness Week 2022 content highlights from advocacy providers across the UK.

To mark the last day of Advocacy Awareness Week 2022 we hosted a free, online lunchtime learning session with Carlyn Miller, Head of Policy and Programmes at the British Institute of Human Rights. Read the slides.

This year's Advocacy Awareness Week highlights how advocates and advocacy supports people in relation to their human rights. Vital shares Rachel's story about the right to be free from discrimination.

Jacqui Jobson is an NDTi Associate and QPM assessor. In this short blog for Advocacy Awareness Week she explains how Article 14 of the Human Rights Act, the right to be free from discrimination, should play a key part in any advocate's toolkit.

For 29 years, Dorset Advocacy has supported, empowered, and helped give a voice to vulnerable people. As part of Advocacy Awareness Week 2022, Rachael Dewhurst tells us more.

Article 8 of the Human Rights Act protects your right to respect for your private life, your family life, your home and your correspondence. In this short blog post from Advocacy Focus. Tyson shares his story as part of Advocacy Awareness Week.

A blog from V for Life explaining how #SelfAdvocacyWorks for older vegans and vegetarians as part of Advocacy Awareness Week 2022

Paul Marshall, CEO at NDTi, explains the importance of human rights in advocacy as part of Advocacy Awareness Week 2022 #AAW22 and what it means to him.

Advocacy Focus explores #HumanRightsAdvocacy and Right to Liberty by sharing George’s advocacy journey after a hospital admission and subsequent move into a care home where he did not want to stay.