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Interview with Marta Velásquez

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dc.contributorBrandvold, Neil
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dc.date.accessioned2020-11-23T20:20:23Z
dc.date.available2020-11-23T20:20:23Z
dc.date.created2020-02-10
dc.identifier.otherClip0025.MXF
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dc.descriptionVirginia Martes Velásquez is human rights defender in Choloma, Honduras. She founded Movimiento de Mujeres de la Colonia López Arellano (MOMUCLAA), which provides legal and psychological services to women survivors of violence, including filing restraining orders and filling out asylum applications. They also mediate community conflicts, collaborate with health centers, help fund childcare centers and night schools, and find workarounds to government inaction. In this interview she talks about growing into an activist and her experience living with violence. She also talks about MOMUCLAA, helping people heal from trauma, and the effects of gang warfare and politics on Hondurans.
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dc.format.extent01:19:04
dc.languageSpanish
dc.publisherGeorgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
dc.relation.urihttps://mediapilot.georgetown.edu/ssdcms/i.do?u=f112a93b29a84b7
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
dc.subjectHuman rights advocacy
dc.subjecthuman rights workers
dc.subjectCommunity activists
dc.subjectcommunity action
dc.subjectHonduras
dc.subject.lcshHuman rights
dc.subject.lcshWomen's rights
dc.titleInterview with Marta Velásquez
dc.typeOral History
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