Launch Event: An Introduction to Effective Lobbying & Campaigning

Launch Event: An Introduction to Effective Lobbying & Campaigning

As a sequel to Working with the Media guide released in 2008, this is the second in a series of training manuals produced by The Cordoba Foundation. The guide provides the targeted readership with practical guidelines and tips to ‘up-skilling’ with the necessary information, tools and guidance to become not just active but proactive citizens – and ultimately to play a better and more effective role in society.

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Forum: After the Riots

Forum: After the Riots

Initiatives of Change-UK, together with the Civil Society Forum and The Cordoba Foundation, are holding a one-day forum on the !st of February 2012 to understand and respond to the Summer 2011 Riots in England. The forum will understand different perspectives on the underlying civic, moral, political and social challenges and explore what we can do individually and collectively in response.

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News Release: 10 Years of Guantanamo

News Release: 10 Years of Guantanamo

On 11 January 2002, the first of nearly 800 prisoners was sent to the US military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Images of these men kneeling and shackled, wearing orange boiler suits, goggled and masked, shocked the world. Ten years on, 171 prisoners still remain in captivity – all without due process and without a feasible end to their suffering in sight.

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