USHRF Global Advocates Convening A Great Success

The US Human Rights Fund hosted a Global Strategy Exchange in New Orleans, January 11-13, 2009, followed by a site visit to North Gulfport, Mississippi on January 14.

140 human rights advocates from 12 countries--spanning 5 continents-- gathered to share their domestic human rights work and to strategize together on promising opportunities to develop transnational advocacy projects. More than three dozen presenters addressed a broad variety of human rights issues, including racial discrimination, ongoing displacement after Hurricane Katrina, criminal justice system reform, workers' rights, gender and sexuality rights and immigration reform.

For more information, downloads of handouts, videos, and photos of the convening please visit our Global Advocates Convening page!