Additional services include HIV/AIDS awareness, health interventions, recreational activities, nutrition, temporary shelter and advocacy.
Community gardens have always been temporary spaces, "social actions by advocacy groups during times of need," he said.
"As part of the inter-agency humanitarian response, UNHCR has been leading efforts to provide relief supplies, temporary shelter, protection, monitoring, and advocacy, as well as camp coordination and management," she said.
And American advocacy and support for temporary tribunals like the one trying Slobodan Milosevic would ring hollow.
The result of years of ardent advocacy and political wrangling, it allows temporary disability benefits for full-time home workers, and provides redress for workplace sexual harassment and discrimination.
The Health Department could have avoided moving Seaport residents to other troubled homes had it acceded to requests from some advocacy groups and appointed what is known as as a temporary receiver to manage the home.
Along with setting up temporary special measures and quotas, the programme also engaged the media in advocacy for gender equality, highlighting positive role models and helped amend discriminatory village rules that hindered women's political participation.
Carla's recollections are all too familiar to immigration lawyers and advocacy groups who have long complained about the brutal conditions in temporary holding cells for undocumented border crossers of all ages.
ChinaAid, a Christian advocacy group based in the United States, put the number of those under temporary house arrest at 500, although that figure could not be immediately verified.
Earlier this summer NGA joined forces with other worker and immigrant advocacy groups, including my project at the Institute for Policy Studies, to examine the full range of temporary work visa programs and recommend changes in policy that could help prevent human trafficking and exploitation.
