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6 steps to effective LGBT advocacy, 2010

06.04.2010

This advocacy manual has been written by ILGA-Europe to provide a logical structure and a set of methods, tools and skills which advocates can use in planning and implementing their advocacy work.

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It is primarily concerned with how and where LGBT human rights advocates in the domestic setting can employ international and regional human rights instruments to frame their arguments and achieve their advocacy objectives.

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