Lydia Alpizar is a Costa Rican/Mexican feminist activist based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is the Executive Director of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), and a member of the Board of Directors for the Global Fund for Women. She is a graduate of the Human Rights Advocacy Training Program at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University in New York.
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Published in: 50.50CSW: the vital need to defend women human rights defenders
We deserve that you put aside your ideological, political and religious differences and fully recognize and affirm...
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Published in: 50.50Redefining security: human rights and economic justice
Security is impossible without people’s freedom to organize and defend their rights, a cornerstone of the exercise...