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  • Home
    • The story of WLD
    • About Women, Law and Development
    • About the Website
    • About the Author
  • Beginnings
    • First Initiatives
    • Central America Legal Services
    • Nairobi Forum
  • Organizing
    • Early regional linkages
    • Asia
    • Latin America
    • Africa
    • Interregional connections
    • WLD International
  • Research
    • Clarifying issues and strategies
    • Participatory Research Project
      • Intro Freedom from V
      • Intro Legal Literacy
    • Step by Step
      • Step by Step Acknowledgements
  • Advocacy
    • Agenda setting with NGOs and UN bodies
    • Claiming Our Place
    • Support of the Special Rapporteur
    • Basic Needs Basic Rights
  • Capacity Building
    • Capacity Building
    • Human Rights Training
      • Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union
      • Nigeria Human Rights Training
    • International Advocates Course
    • Russian Lawyers
  • Publications
  • Chronology
  • Reflections
  • Network Links
  • Website Map
© Margaret Schuler
WLD HISTORY

Becoming an Advocate Step by Step
 in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States

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Molly Reilly, Margaret Schuler (eds.)
Women, Law and Development International
2000
  • ISBN-10: 1890832014
  • ISBN-13: 978-1890832018
​162 pages

This book is about the struggles and strategies of women grappling to become human rights advocates capable of effecting changes in law and practice to uphold women’s basic rights. In Becoming an Advocate Step by Step, champions of women’s rights from Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States tell their own stories about the opportunities and challenges they faced as they engaged their governments in the profoundly democratic process of human rights advocacy. This book is as much about their experience and “step by step” learning as it is about the policy changes effected through advocacy. It is about both product and process.

  • "In spite of the difficult political and economic situation in the country; I am still very motivated to work on women's human rights because I see that I can achieve the goal if I walk step by step,”  An advocate from Yugoslavia
  • “We trained women and opened their eyes to the fact that their destiny is in their hands, that they have to fight for their rights instead of sitting and waiting for the government to help them,” An advocate from Kyrgyzstan
  • “Before I thought that one had to have a special education in order to be involved in advocacy. But now I understand that the main thing is strategy and the other very important is a team. ”


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Becoming an Advocate
Women, Law & Development 
Its history and contributions to the global women's rights movement. 
by Margaret Schuler 

Women, Law and Development

In these pages, Margaret Schuler, the initiator and director of WLD for many years, shares the story of its development and the contributions it has made to the international movement.