Category Archives: Equitas blog

The 2012 International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP) has begun. On Sunday June 3, participants from 56 countries, many still recovering from long journeys and jet lag, gathered for the registration and were welcomed by Equitas staff, interns and volunteers. Over the course of the next three weeks, the 108 human rights defenders and educators […]

Yesterday, I was reminded once again of the courage and commitment it takes to be a human rights defender and educator when we learned that Asma Jahangir, recipient of the 2012 Equitas Award for Human Rights Education and alumnus of our International Human Rights Training Program in 1990, is receiving very serious death threats in […]

Our International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP) began on  Sunday, June 3. Over 30 staff and interns are focused on nothing but – and over 106 participants have arrived in Montréal for a three week program that will change their lives and work. The participants are truly a varied group, coming from all the corners […]

Equitas is excited to welcome you to its new blog. It will be yet another way to share news with you, update you on our ongoing activities and to share some of  the dynamism of our programs and of our incredible alumni and partners. In the coming days we will be welcoming over 100 human […]

A truly amazing woman from Tanzania is transforming the lives of women and children and entire communities. Aginatha Festo Rutazaa, is a community worker who lives in the village of Moshi, near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. In 2009, Aginatha  participated in Equitas’ International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP) in Montreal in 2009 where she came […]

Raising awareness of the rights of women exercising non-traditional professions Joséphine Yameogo has been fighting for her rights her entire life. At the age of one month, she was promised in marriage to a man over 40 years her senior. At the age of 17, she was taken to meet her 60 year-old future husband. […]