Film: The importance of human rights in advocacy
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.
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George's Story
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.
Carol’s story
Today's human rights theme is Right to Liberty. The Advocacy People have shared Carol's story, highlighting how advocates work to support people to have a say in how and where they live.
Guest blog: Ruth, what advocacy means to me as a young person
Ruth is a young person with lived experience of using formal and informal advocacy to get through a number of challenging situations in their life.
How advocate Toby uses human rights in his work
Toby has been an independent advocate sine 2018 and currently works with Voiceability. Read his story.
Advocacy: The importance of listening is essential in upholding people's rights
Advocacy Awareness Week 2022: Upholding Human Rights through independent advocacy. Kate Mercer from Blackbelt Advocacy talks about the importance of being heard and taking the time to listen.
How can advocates use human rights to help get your voice heard?
In this short film Katrin McEntee, Senior Human Rights Officer at the British Institute of Human Rights and former advocate, tells us how her advocacy work involved the Human Rights Act.
Blog: The importance of human rights in independent advocacy
Welcome to Advocacy Awareness Week 2022. This is our 5th year of spending a week celebrating and raising awareness about independent advocacy and this year our focus is on advocacy and human rights.