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Front Line Defenders Meets with HRAP Participants
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

SIPA alum Ana Cutter Patel returned to Columbia University in her new role as the US representative of Front Line Defenders (FLD), an international human rights organization founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders (HRDs) at risk.

Advocates Chosen to Participate in LGBTQI+ Activism Summit at Harvard
Monday, May 1, 2023

Four of the advocates participating in the 2022-23 HRAP were chosen to participate in the International LGBTQI+ Activism Summit at Harvard University. The one-day summit included sessions with  Professors Timothy McCarthy, Marshall Ganz, Cornell Brooks, Matthias Risse, and Kathryn Sikkink on topics ranging from Transnational Activism Networks and the UN to  Speaking to People of Faith to Public Narratives.

Advocate Highlight
Ana Maria Belique
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Advocate Ana Maria Belique is currently participating in the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP). She is the Founder member of the reconoci.do movement in the Dominican Republic.

Why did you apply to HRAP?

When I saw this call, I felt that this was just what I needed. It is just what my movement needed.

Advocates Participate in Release of Report on Exploitation of Indigenous Communities in Peruvian Amazon
Friday, April 21, 2023

At a side event during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 2022-23 Advocate Isabel Flota moderated a discussion with Indigenous women including fellow HRAP participant Dayana Blanco Quiroga on the report Between Neglect and Exploitation: The Case of Indigenous Communities in the Peruvian Amazon by the DC-based NGO Free the Slaves. 

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.  

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