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A child named Joel Olupot, from Uganda, displaying a panel he created that depicts a scene from his life.

 Handmade quilts created in 14 different countries across the world featuring the daily lives and struggles of various communities.

The Advocacy Project’s quilt exhibition at Kean University was also featured in Sunday’s New York Times. Read here:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/nyregion/insights-from-survivors-of-abuse-sewn-together.html?_r=0

Inside the Center:  Now equipped with rooms for legal advocates, psychiatrists and computer classes, now funding is the main struggle for success at BOSFAM’s Srebrenica Center.  The BOSFAM center in Srebrenica has over 70 women on its list of weavers. However, due to low funding a low sales only a handful of them are able to generate income from the center. Srebrenica remains a shell of its former self, yet BOSFAM continues to search for new ways to breathe life into this high mountain town.  Photo taken by: Claire Noone, Advocacy Project Peace Fellow Bosnia-Herzegovina 2012
Floral decorations for Ramadan criss-cross the streets.  Thayer Hastings, 2012 Peace Fellow, Alternative Information Center, Beit Sahour/Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine
The BOSFAM center in Srebrenica has over 70 women on its list of weavers. However, due to low funding a low sales only a handful of them are able to generate income from the center. Srebrenica remains a shell of its former self, yet BOSFAM continues to search for new ways to breathe life into this high mountain town.  Photo taken by: Claire Noone, Advocacy Project Peace Fellow Bosnia-Herzegovina 2012
Curious and Skeptical
Matthew Becker, 2012 Peace Fellow, Subornogram Foundation, Sonargaon, Bangladesh 
Cages
Thayer Hastings, 2012 Peace Fellow, Alternative Information Center, Beit Sahour/Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine
Candies unsuccessfully tempt the fasting faithful.
Thayer Hastings, 2012 Peace Fellow, Alternative Information Center, Beit Sahour/Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine
Eels!  Matthew Becker, 2012 Peace Fellow, Subornogram Foundation, Sonargaon, Bangladesh
Dale Farm child’s reflection in the water.
A Dale Farm caravan at night.
Riot police and media look on as activists chant against the removal of Gypsies from Dale farm. 
Irish Traveller, Rhianna, showing off her new dress. Dale Farm Traveller site, Essex. 
Appleby Horse Fair, 2010-11. An annual gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in the town of Appleby in Cumbria, England.
An activist poses with a cross outside the burning caravan, set on fire as riot police surrounded residents and activists.