Advocacy
Up one levelAdvocacy is the skill to promote ideas, issues or causes. Advocacy can be used to persuade people to change their behaviors, pressure governments to adopt better policies, or convince non-state actors to reconsider their actions. This section of BurmaGuide.Net includes resource summaries that include toolkits and training materials from groups engaged in advocacy for promoting democracy, safeguarding the environment, raising public health standards, protecting human rights, and other areas.
Facing the Future
This website features a listing of curriculum possibilities for issues related to the future of our environment, population, consumption, peace and ...
Earth Institute News
This site contains a listing of environmental news items, and environmental projects related to water, energy, urbanization, hazards and risk, global ...
Writing and Editing for the Web
This site contains a listing of issues related to developing text on web sites and writing for the internet.
UN: UN: Economic and Social Development
This site features the UN’s Economic and Social Development programme areas, the global dialogue on development, the organizational units working ...
What is being done on … Internet and Other Media to Promote Democracy?
This site highlights organizations that utilize the internet and other media as effective tools for conducting their democracy-building activities ...
Violence against Women
This site features a range of topics related to violence Committed against women during time of war and conflict These include, rape as a war crime ...
Continuing Violations of Women's Human Rights
This site highlights an address given by Louise Arbour connecting gender discrimination with the HIV-AIDS pandemic. A link to the full statement by ...
The Tip of the Iceberg; Global Impact of HIV/AIDS on Youth
This site contains information about the impact of HIV/AIDS on young people around the world using a variety of sources and studies. It includes ...
The Irrawaddy News Journal
The Irrawaddy provides information, analysis and news reporting for Burma and the region- This site contains online news alerts, editorial, ...
International Criminal Court
This site features the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court which was entered into force on July 1, 2002.
Facing the Future