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HRAP Advocate and Students Strategize on Advocacy for Dominicans of Haitian Descent
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Ana María Belique, a participant in the 2022-23 Human Rights Advocates Program at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights,  spoke to Professor Jo Becker’s Human Rights Skills and Advocacy class on April 14th. As a founding member of Reconocí.do, an organization that mobilizes and empowers Dominicans of Haitian descent, Ana María leads education campaigns on citizenship laws and the rights of Dominicans of Haitian origin.  

HRAP Participants Raise Awareness about their Work in DC
Monday, April 3, 2023
During the last week of March, the participants in the 2022-23 Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) visited Washington, D.C. Free the Slaves hosted the advocates for a breakfast networking event. Bukeni Waruzi, the executive director of Free the Slaves, and Stephanie V.
CEDAW Adopts Recommendations Made by Advocate Larissa Arroyo Navarrete
Thursday, March 16, 2023

As part of the Grupo de Trabajo de Agenda CEDAW in Costa Rica, 2021-22 Advocate Larissa Arroyo Navarrete recently coordinated and presented the platform’s shadow report at the 84th session of CEDAW in Geneva in February. Larissa shared: “The Committee mentioned in the final observations to Costa Rica almost all the issues that we raised. I cannot tell you how happy I am and the impact that this will have over the years. All the learning [in the Human Rights Advocates Program] on advocacy, communications, funding, etc. was definitely put to use!

Advocate Highlight
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

2022-23 Advocate Antonia Moreira was interviewed by the magazine Piauí of Folha de São Paulo.

Click here to read the interview (in Portuguese).
Advocate Contributes to “The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated”
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

2005 Advocate Alejandra Ancheita of Mexico is one of the 25 lawyers who contributed reflections from their work on the frontlines to the book “The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated”. Ancheita said: “We share inspiration for the way movements can use the law–and must sometimes break it–to achieve justice.”

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