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2010 Advocate Joins Anti-Slavery Activists at Aurora Summit
Monday, May 12, 2025

2010 Advocate Bakary Tandia joined fellow anti-slavery activists Biram Dah Abeid, the founder of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (Mauritania), and Sean Tenner, who co-founded The Abolition Institute (USA) with Tandia, on a panel discussion at the 2025 Human Rights & Humanitarian Forum sponsored by the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative. The forum brings together leading humanitarians, legal advocates, scholars, and students to explore how we can work across sectors to build a more resilient and just world.

2018 Advocate Pepe Onziema on Legal Advocacy for LGBTQI+ People
Monday, April 28, 2025

2018 Advocate Pepe Onziema spoke at the University of Paris-Nanterre (France) in April at the invitation of ADUH and STOP Homophobie. His talk focused on the criminalization of homosexuality and the legal challenges surrounding the persecution of LGBTQI+ individuals by states. Pepe emphasized the importance of grounding legal advocacy in the lived experiences of queer people on the ground. He underscored that queer communities should be empowered to choose their own legal representation, rather than having lawyers select their clients.

2024-25 Advocate Authors New Book
Friday, April 25, 2025

In the recently released book Anti-Gender Human Rights: The Legal Reasoning on Bolsonaro's Administration on LGBTI+ Policies (2019-2022), 2024-25 Advocate Gustavo Coutinho analyzes how the Bolsonaro government operated a legal and symbolic offensive against the LGBTI+ movement - not by chance, targeting gender and sexuality as central targets in its cultural war.

2022-23 Advocate Ana Belique participated in several public events on the need for reparative justice for Afro-descendant communities across the Americas
Thursday, April 24, 2025
2022-23 Advocate Ana Belique of Reconoci.do in the Dominican Republic recently participated in a number of public events on the need for reparative justice for Afro-descendant communities across the Americas. She shared the following updates on the events:
Meet the 2024-25 Advocates
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

This week we are pleased to introduce you to the following three participants in the 2024-25 Human Rights Advocates Program at ISHR: Wanja Ngure of UHAI EASHRI in Kenya, Kutlwano Magashula of The Other Foundation in South Africa, and Kathia Carrillo of Comunes in Peru.

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