1.   In New Jersey, the relationship between private advocacy groups and the government has been less strained.

2.   Josh Greenberg, director of Covering Kids in Massachusetts, said state health officials are eager to work with private advocacy groups to expand coverage.

3.   Rather than being prepared by a private advocacy group, the report was the work of the parliamentary committee on human rights.

4.   The treaty itself was a unique agreement that grew out of the initiative of private advocacy groups and government leaders acting outside the U.N. system.

5.   Tom W. Smith, director of the General Social Survey at the University of Chicago, analyzed the poll for the American Jewish Committee, a private advocacy group.

6.   A companion meeting of private advocacy groups, including some international human rights groups, held its opening ceremony on Wednesday.

7.   An advocate of Japanese war compensation appeals to the United Nations to protect him against Chinese government attempts to bar him from an international meeting of private advocacy groups.

8.   Beijing hosts the Fourth World Conference on Women and a companion meeting of private advocacy groups in less than three weeks.

9.   Chinese officials decided this spring to move the forum for private advocacy groups from central Beijing to Huairou, a small town in the green hills outside Beijing.

10.   Grants have helped private advocacy groups and nonpartisan groups that want to dispatch poll watchers to assure honest elections.