Physicians for Human Rights Advocacy Toolkit

This toolkit describes advocacy techniques and activities geared toward the health professions and health professional students. It aims to support health professionals to advocate for human rights by accessing "their specialized skills, ethical obligations, and credible voices". For students, the website strives to advance understanding and lifelong investment in health and human rights activism, and to cultivate their contributions as advocates promoting health and human rights through local chapters of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), as well as blog posting, action alerts, and campaign organising. The advocacy toolkit includes such aids as templates, phone scripts, sample letters, and other downloadable tools.

Advocay Toolkit Contents:

• Toolkit Home
• Contacting Government Officials
• Event Planning
• Student Chapter Organising
• Recruitment
• Fundraising
• Coalition Building

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The student toolkit contains the resources, connections, and support needed to boost student effectiveness in advocating for health and human rights. This PHR Student Chapter Toolbox contains following:

• Information on Physicians for Human Rights, the Student Programme and PHR campaigns (PDF format);
• A Guide for Becoming an Effective Leader in the PHR Student Programme (MS Word format):
• Guides for starting the 2007-2008 year, chapter development, and promoting issues on campus, including Host an Introduction Meeting, Sample Chapter Constitution, and Start and Strengthen the Student Chapter (MS Word formats);
• Guides for maintaining a student chapter, including Collaborate, Develop Resources, Facilitate a Meeting, Publicise, and Recruit new Members (MS Word formats);
• Guides for moving an issue on campus and in the community, including Host a Speaker, Meet with Elected Officials, Plan an Event, and Using the Media (MS Word format);
• A list of different ideas for taking action (MS Word format);
• A calendar of national activities for this academic year (2007 - 2008)(MS Word format); and
• 25 Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights from the World Health Organization (PDF format).

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