On the occasion of International Child Rights Day, Save the Children welcomes a presentation by David Cohen, Co-Director of the Advocacy Institute, Co-Chair of the Advocacy Institute Board, and one of its two founders, based in Washington. The event is to host Save the Children’s response to the tsunami emergency was the largest in their 85 year history. To commemorate the tsunami’s second anniversary, In the first of these events on 20 November, David Cohen will address an audience made up of NGOs, INGOs, government officials, partners of Save the Children and the media. David Cohen counsels social justice movements to gain support for their public agenda. His work has helped social justice movements in the USA and in countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, the Middle East and Central and Eastern Europe to gain support for their public agenda. When not counselling others, David Cohen has also worked as an advocate and strategist on many of the major social justice and political reform issues in the USA since the early 1960s. These issues include civil rights, anti-poverty and reforming U.S. political processes by eliminating abuses of power and the corrupting influence of money on American politics. He played a leading role in the fight for Congress to end its support for the Vietnam War. From 1984-1992 David led the Professionals' Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control to stop the United States nuclear arms build-up by supporting arms control agreements and reducing the military budget. He served as president of Common Cause from 1975-81, the largest voluntary membership organisation in the United States working on government accountability issues and is also an active participant in the His most recent publication was a chapter in the ‘Non-Profit Lobbying Guide’ (by Bob Smucker). The chapter was called ‘Being a Public Lobbyist is something to write home about’. David is one of the three co-authors of Advocacy for Social Justice: A Global Action and Reflection Guide. For more information please contact:
He is going to lecture on Child and Community based Advocacy in Response to Natural Disasters in Chennai, addressing a gathering of NGOs, INGOs, government officials and the media. This will be followed by a three-day advocacy workshop for Save the Children's Tsunami Response Programme staff.
Save the Children is organising an art exhibition of paintings drawn by children affected by the disaster, an internal event on the benefits the organisation has taken from child participation in response to recent emergencies in India, and a state-level consultation on non-discrimination.
Institute’s Leadership for a Changing World Programme.
Save the Children: Kate Dancy, Media and Communications Manager
Email address: k.dancy@scfukindia.org
Tel: 098 1162 6122
Save the Children: Seminar on Community based Advocacy in Response to Natural Disasters
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