Posts Advocacy campaigns from January, 2016
Blogger and Online Activist Network
After the killing of several prominent bloggers in Bangladesh, Bloggers and online activist network, launched a campaign to protest the murders and to raise more awareness on blogging. This campaign gathered the blogger's community for writing blogs against the injustice for the mass population in Bangladesh
Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan (Movement for Land Rights)
Country India Campaign Description Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan is a coming together of different groups and struggles to protest against the proposed amendment to the law on land acquisition that would take away the rights of disenfranchised farmers and people whose land is taken away for big projects. Connected to this is...
Against Beef Ban in India
In 2015 under the regime of Narendra Modi, there was an attempt to once again introduce laws that ban the selling of beef and slaughter of cows. The reasons are that as a HIndu majority nation, the religious feelings of the Hindus for the cow should be respected. The irony is that a majority in the nation rely on beef for cheap protein source and most of these people belong to either lower castes or the Muslim minority.
#FreeKhadija
#FreeKhadija is a campaign that began shortly after the arrest of prominent investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova in Azerbaijan. Her arrest was a blow to many of the friends and her family but also a sign that the government of Azerbaijan was ready to cross the red lines for the sake of silencing its key critics.
Advocacy Campaigns You Need to Know About
GVeX core team has been involved with many advocacy campaigns all over the world, below are some of the campaigns that took both an online and offline aspect. If you want to share with us information about campaigns you've worked on, please fill this form. Data from globalvoicesexchange.silk.co
