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  2. Advocacy - Wikipedia

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    Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to influence public policy, laws and budgets by using facts, their relationships, the media, and messaging to educate government officials and the public.

  3. Advocacy group - Wikipedia

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    Advocacy groups also exert influence through channels that are separate from the government or the political structure such as the mass media and through public opinion campaigning. Advocacy groups will use methods such as protesting, petitioning and civil disobedience to attempt to exert influence in Liberal Democracies. Groups will generally ...

  4. Policy advocacy - Wikipedia

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    Policy advocacy is defined as active, covert, or inadvertent support of a particular policy or class of policies. [1] Advocacy can include a variety of activities including, lobbying , litigation, public education, and forming relationships with parties of interest.

  5. Methods used by advocacy groups - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, the campaigns of advocacy groups have included letter-writing, petitions and marches.For example, in the mid-1980s, LIFE compiled a petition of more than 2,000,000 names opposed to abortion, organised a "Mail MPs a Mountain" campaign in 1987 and employed postcard campaigns in 1989 and 1990 against the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.

  6. Annenberg Public Policy Center - Wikipedia

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    The Annenberg Center is a political advocacy group that owns FactCheck.org.The Annenberg Center conducts research, convenes panels of experts, hosts lectures and conferences, [2] and publishes reports on five main areas: Political communication, information and society, media and children, health communication, and adolescent risk.

  7. List of advocacy groups in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The JCC was the main advocacy group for the Jewish community in Canada from 1919 to 2011, advocating for human rights, social equality, Canadian immigration reform and civil and political rights in Canada. [9] [10] Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee political; Canadian Radio League political; Canadian Snowbird Association political

  8. Human Rights Campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is an American LGBTQ advocacy group.It is the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization within the United States. [2] Based in Washington, D.C., the organization focuses on protecting and expanding rights for LGBTQ individuals, including advocating for same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination and hate crimes legislation, and HIV/AIDS advocacy.

  9. Advocacy journalism - Wikipedia

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    Advocacy journalism is a genre of journalism that adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose. Some advocacy journalists reject the idea that the traditional ideal of objectivity is possible or practical, in part due to the perceived influence of corporate sponsors in advertising .