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Regional Workshop on Women and Minority Human Rights Defenders 16 | P a g e Some of the EHAHRDP network members at the workshop
Regional Workshop on Women and Minority Human Rights Defenders Day Two 13 October 2009 The facilitator welcomed participants for the second day of the workshop and allowed new members to introduce themselves. She then invited the next presenter to commence. Mr Arjan Van Der Waal I. Regional Advocacy and Lobby Campaigns on Women Human Rights Defenders and Minority Rights Defenders - Practices Mr. Arjan Van Der Waal, Coordinator of Africa Human Rights Defenders Program, Amnesty International shared some of the common practices of advocacy. He begun by imploring the participants to have a good advocacy plan as the key to effective advocacy. Advocacy in this case was defined as a project designed to achieve specific responses of a particular audience. The presenter illustrated this by dissecting the famous ‘Lubna Ahmed al Hussein’ case concerning a Sudanese journalist who was arrested and charged for wearing trousers in public in contravention of Sudanese indecency laws, and in which Amnesty International intervened. Through this, participants were able to evaluate different types of advocacy strategies. He outlined the core steps of an advocacy plan to incorporate the following; � Identification of the problem 17 | P a g e
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