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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!

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).
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.”

Monday, March 6, 2023

2022-23 Advocate Mari Kapanadze was invited to judge a round of the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition at the Cardozo School of Law School. 

Monday, March 6, 2023
2019 Advocate Wisdom Bebli was recently interviewed by Outright International. Bebli discussed the anti-LGBTIQ bill launched in the Ghanaian parliament. He is the Executive Director of Solace Initiative an NGO working for the promotion and protection of LGBTQ+ people in Ghana.