Student Advocacy
The Student Program is committed to providing the resources, connections and support needed to boost our student chapter's passion and effectiveness in advocating for health and human rights. In this PHR Student Chapter Toolbox, you will find the following:
- Information on Physicians for Human Rights, the Student Program and PHR campaigns (pdf)
- A Guide for Becoming an Effective Leader in the PHR Student Program (doc)
- A toolkit with program information and 12 organizing guides on starting the 2007-2008 year, chapter development, and promoting issues on your campus.
-Guides for starting your student chapter
-Host an Introduction Meeting (doc)
-Sample Chapter Constitution (doc)
-Start and Strengthen the Student Chapter (doc)
-Guides for maintaining a student chapter
-Collaborate (doc)
-Develop Resources (doc)
-Facilitate a Meeting (doc)
-Publicize (doc)
-Recruit new Members (doc)
-Guides for moving an issue on campus and in the community
-Host a Speaker (doc)
-Meet with Elected Officials (doc)
-Plan an Event (doc)
-Using the Media (doc)
- A list of different ideas for taking action (doc)
- Ready-for-use PHR educational PowerPoint (coming soon)
- A calendar of national activities for this academic year
- 25 Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights from the World Health Organization (pdf)
