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Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico
Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico promotes access to justice and the defense of fundamental rights through legal education, the development of civic capacities, and legal support for communities of low and moderate resources.
Ayuda Leag’s main work areas are coalition development, legal education, capacity development, community legal work, and social impact advocacy. It uses technology and public policy analysis to maximize its impact.
The passage of Hurricane Maria moved Ayuda Legal to implement the first legal support initiative after the disaster in Puerto Rico: Legal Help Hurricane Maria. The success of this program inspired much of the legal work after disasters in Puerto Rico. It demonstrated that the community legal education and support model serves to accompany, empower, and provoke changes in public policies.
Ayuda Legal’s current projects address issues of communities’ access to justice, the right to housing, and just recovery. Among its strategies are the deployment of community brigades in the wake of disasters to ensure that people have access to the resources to which they are entitled.
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- Grassroots International
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- Michael Kavate, Inside Philanthropy
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- Grassroots International
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- Center for Constitutional Rights andPalestine Legal
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- Seth Morrison
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- Sector de Mujeres
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- Funders For Ceasefire
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- Grassroots International
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES
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- MOVIMENTO DOS ATINGIDOS POR BARRAGENS / MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY DAMS (MAB)
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- CAMERON CALHOUN
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- LA VIA CAMPESINA
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- ALICE ROTHCHILD, MD
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- NZINGA MARIELLE ELEGUA
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- STATEMENT OF HAITIAN MOVEMENTS
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- COPINH
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Solidarity with Border Agricultural Workers Project
- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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Attorney General Reaffirms Rights of Those Affected by Brumadinho Dam Collapse
- MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY DAMS
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- Tarso Ramos
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Honduras: US Rights Groups Condemn Election Result as Not Credible
- JONATHAN LEANING
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Honduras: US Outrage Sparked at Risk of Election Theft: Rights groups issue a joint statement; rally to pressure US, Honduras governments for transparency
- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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Grassroots International Joins Call to Protect Haitians from Deportation
- MINA REMY
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90+ Celebrities, Actors, Artists, and NGOs Decry Attack on Brazil School
- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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Movements Refuse to Give Up Despite Parliamentary Coup against Democracy in Brazil
- CAROL SCHACHET
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- MARIA LUISA MENDONÇA & JOVANNA GARCÍA SOTO
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Movement Views Dilma Ouster as a Coup
- CAROL SCHACHET
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Black and Afro-Indigenous Farmers Share 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize
- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
Holding Up More than Half the Sky
- CAROL SCHACHET
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- CAROL SCHACHET
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- CAROL SCHACHET
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
2011 Food Sovereignty Prize winners announced
- CAROL SCHACHET
Indigenous Community in Chiapas
- SHANNON DUNCAN BODWELL
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- CLOC/LA VIA CAMPESINA
Call to Action for the International Community
- WENDY CRUZ
Grassroots International Among Signers on Honduras Statement
- CAROL SCHACHET
International Women’s Delegation Granted Entry to Gaza
- CAROL SCHACHET
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- CAROL SCHACHET
Solidarity Letter and Call to Stop the War in Gaza
- CAROL SCHACHET
Israel May Be in Violation of Arms Export Control Act
- CAROL SCHACHET
Grassroots International Condemns the Bombing in Gaza
- CAROL SCHACHET
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
Evicted South Africans Rally in Support of Immigrants
- NIKHIL AZIZ
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- CAROL SCHACHET
Stop Israeli Policy of Siege and Isolation of the Gaza strip
- CAROL SCHACHET
Massacre at Felizburgo
- JAKE MILLER
The Legacy of President Arafat
- HASAN BARGHOUTHI, DEMOCARCY AND WORKERS RIGHTS CENTER
Farewell Abu Ammar
- PALESTINIAN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (PCHR)
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- GAZA COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM (GCMHP)
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- PALESTINIAN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
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- PALESTINIAN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
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- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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- CAROL SCHACHET
Haitian Civil Society Organisations’ Declaration on the Interim Cooperation Framework Process
- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
Sustained Attention to Needs of Haiti Necessary
- INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF RELIGIOUS
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- CAROL SCHACHET