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US Campaign For Palestinian Rights
The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), formerly known as the US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation, is a Palestine lobby in the United States, pro-Palestinian advocacy group advocating for the State of Palestine, rights of Palestinians. The organization was founded in 2001 after the second Intifada and is now made up of more than 300 member groups in the US working for Palestinian advocacy. USCPR was created with the goal to focus on "denied human rights" instead of focusing explicitly on Palestinian statehood. Activities USCPR advocates for multiple campaigns, including BDS campaign, BDS, providing a "BDS toolkit" and "Divestment toolkit" on its website. It also advocated for Prison abolition movement, prison abolition during COVID-19 and called for a ban of US funding of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, imprisoning of Palestinian children in the Occupied territories of Palestine, occupied territories. USCPR has also helped organize pro-Palestinian protests, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advocacy Group
Advocacy groups, also known as interest groups, special interest groups, lobbying groups or pressure groups use various forms of advocacy in order to influence public opinion and ultimately policy. They play an important role in the development of political and social systems. Motives for action may be based on Politics, political, religious, morality, moral, or commerce, commercial positions. Groups Methods used by advocacy groups, use varied methods to try to achieve their aims, including lobbying, media campaigns, consciousness raising, awareness raising publicity stunts, Opinion poll, polls, research, and policy briefings. Some groups are supported or backed by powerful business or political interests and exert considerable influence on the political process, while others have few or no such resources. Some have developed into important social, political institutions or social movements. Some powerful advocacy groups have been accused of manipulating the democratic syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
