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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

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Hairston, vice president of institutional advancement and development at Miles College, said, “[This report] will be one of those seminal documents that will allow us to get in rooms we might have been excluded from.” Panelists from Brazil, Kenya, and Jamaica discussed the importance of empowering communities in the African diaspora.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

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Our Martus team trained two new partners focused on rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people : Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays , or J-FLAG and AIDS-Free World. We’re honored to support the process towards justice and accountability at this critical time in Guatemala’s history.