Oscar Soria was born on 1974 and is an Argentinian political activist, social journalist, and environmental and human rights campaigner, currently serving as a campaign director in the international activist group Avaaz.
16 Facts About Oscar Soria
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Oscar Soria was part of the directorate of the British section of Oxfam and confidant and close adviser of progressive politicians, social advocates and NGO leaders in Latin America and Asia.
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Oscar Soria led many efforts to promote transitional justice, in particular over forced disappearances and the stolen children during the dictatorship in the country.
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Oscar Soria started his journalism career in the newspaper El Liberal when he was 14, becoming the youngest journalist in the Argentine media, leading high-profile investigative reports on social, environmental and human rights issues.
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Oscar Soria was known for shifting the rules of covering political campaigns, by refusing visibility to rallies or negative campaigning and organising instead local debates, community forums, off-line civic and open-source journalism formats, focusing the discussions in party platforms rather than candidates.
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In 1999 Oscar Soria was appointed in Greenpeace, where his early adoption of mobile phones led into landmark victories in forest protection and indigenous rights in Argentina.
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Oscar Soria designed a successful campaign towards the reduction of waste by encouraging individuals to participate in mobile campaigning.
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Oscar Soria later designed high-profile campaigns on GMOs, deforestation, pollution and climate change, leading mass global pressure against companies such as Nestle, Tata Group, Volkswagen, Mattel or McDonald's, using subvertising, internet activism, mobile campaigns and other creative confrontational tactics in United States, United Kingdom, Japan, China, India, Russia, Brazil, Turkey and in the Netherlands.
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Oscar Soria advised indigenous movements and communities opposed to oil, mining, paper mills and agribusiness projects in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay during the 90s.
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In February 2012 Oscar Soria left Greenpeace International to join the global group WWF in its world's headquarters in Switzerland where he led social media campaigns against illegal wildlife trade and climate change.
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From Avaaz, in an OpEd in the New York Times, Oscar Soria called on Latin American leaders Mauricio Macri and Enrique Pena Nieto to take a more prominent role to tackle thelimat crisis c in the region.
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Oscar Soria later repeated that plea in commentary articles in the Argentine newspapers Clarin and La Nacion.
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Oscar Soria has advocated for a stronger Catholic leadership on refugees, praising the decision of Pope Francis to wash the feet of the refugees during Easter in 2016, while calling for a political solution to the migrant crisis in Europe.
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Oscar Soria supported a legal fight from indigenous peoples and local communities from the Amazon in their struggle over their lands.
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Oscar Soria was a leading voice in criticizing the tech industry for its inability to tackle digital disinformation in Spanish during the 2020 presidential elections in the United States.
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Oscar Soria has written dozens of articles about activism and progressive causes.