What Mr. Goldstein complained about, Justice Breyer wrote, may have been administrative but was nonetheless "directly connected with the prosecutor's basic trial advocacy duties" in that it concerned whether and when to make information available to defense lawyers.
All NIDs' supporters, including members of the social mobilization sub-committees, need training on the basics of advocacy, interpersonal communication and key messages, if they are to plan and carry out social mobilization activities effectively.
Forgetting a basic rule of advocacy, he asked a witness a question without knowing the answer, which turned out to hurt his case.
With the adoption of the millennium development goals, an approach to development that focuses on the fulfilment of basic needs, all advocacy that challenging systemic forms of injustice became virtually redundant.
It's a basic principle of advocacy, but it can get lost when activists are focused on more immediate matters, like getting people resettled in a new country.
Most international funded civil society development programs provide local CSOs with basic management and advocacy skills, as well as a vision of what their society should look like, i.e. an active and engaged civic sector with a transparent and accountable government.
They do this by learning the scientific and regulatory foundation of environmental health issues affecting New Yorkers, as well as by learning basic organizing and advocacy skills to address health disparities in environmentally influenced health outcomes.
Television commercials that include them represent the most basic form of "express advocacy," or advertisements that explicitly urge votes for or against a specific candidate.
The growing practice of product placement was criticized yesterday as "an affront to basic honesty" by an advocacy organization, which asked two federal agencies to insist that television shows disclose all such deals.
Colleagues speak highly of Mr. Annan's engaging personality, ability to convey empathy and forceful advocacy of basic human rights during a United Nations career that started in the 1960s with positions at the World Health Organization and the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, and later in roles at the United Nations headquarters in New York, including under secretary for peacekeeping.
