2009 Global Advocates Convening

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.

International and domestic human rights advocates attend dinner at Mulate's on January 13, 2009 in New Orleans, LA.