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Human Rights Day 2022: Struggle, Resistance, and Healing
By: Cameron Calhoun | December 9, 2022On Human Rights Day 2022, we are focusing on the powerful ways communities are engaged in collective healing in their struggles against human rights abuses. These efforts are exemplified by the grantees of the Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing and Human Rights (MBI) at Grassroots International.
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Having KOURAJ to Make a Difference in Haiti
By: Rebecca Gonser | June 28, 2022Queer Haitians are organizing for their rights and dignity in a hostile environment. And Grassroots International, through our Martín-Baró Initiative, is providing resources for the community to organize, heal, and connect.
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Women Narrate Their Stories of Healing and Resistance
By: Grassroots International | March 29, 2022In honor of Women’s History Month, we are uplifting the work of the Martín-Baró Initiative (MBI) and the many ways that women have used their voices.
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Donate to the Martín-Baró Initiative
Support the Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing and Human Rights as it advances social reparation and support the collective power of communities to recover from experiences of violence, injustice and repression.
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Martín-Baró Initiative Releases Fall Newsletter
By: The Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing & Human Rights | November 5, 2021In their Fall 2021 newsletter, learn how the Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing & Human Rights is fostering psychosocial well-being and social change.
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Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing and Human Rights: 2021 Grantees
By: Grassroots International | September 8, 2021We are delighted to announce the first round of grants by the Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing and Human Rights (MBI). A vital initiative of Grassroots International, MBI integrates human rights with community health and wellbeing in response to political repression, structural violence and social injustice.
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Scrolling Through the Past: Collaboration, Communal Trauma, and Collective Healing
By: Sam Yoon | August 5, 2021Story-telling and art can be powerful tools for collective healing and resistance — as seen in AgitArte's “End the debt! Decolonize! Liberate Puerto Rico! Scroll" project.
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Liberating the Spirit in Palestine
By: Ayman Nijim | July 29, 2021Ayman Nijim, Ph.D. candidate in Liberation Psychology and Transformative Social Change and Grassroots International’s Solidarity Program Officer for the Middle East, writes how Liberation Psychology can support the healing and liberation of Palestine. This is the first in a multi-part series on psychology and liberation from Ayman.
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Liberation Psychology, Social Movements, and One Legacy of Ignacio Martín-Baró
By: M. Brinton Lykes | July 29, 2021Ignacio Martín-Baró's vision was to generate a “psychology of the people” — one grounded in the understandings of buen vivir from Salvadoran peasants.
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Healing Minds, Bodies and Mother Earth
By: Chris Morrill | July 21, 2021We live in a sick system, and people and the planet need healing. Our partners are leading the way with healing justice.
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Ex-Salvadoran Colonel Faces Charges for 1989 Killings
By: Carol Schachet | June 11, 2020Like many of my generation, my political awakening centered around three events in the 1980s: anti-apartheid activism, AIDS, and US intervention in Central America. It is with a real sensation of deja vu that I again see all three of...
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30 Years of Accompaniment & Solidarity Towards Social Transformation
By: M. Brinton Lykes | November 18, 2019Towards increasing the breadth and depth of our activism and solidarity, the MBF announces our transition to a new partnership with Grassroots International.
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Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing and Human Rights
Martín-Baró Initiative provides a way to integrate human rights with community health and wellbeing, particularly among those severely harmed by political repression, structural violence and social injustice. Working closely with a group of volunteers, including psychologists, academics and activists, the...
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Your Voice in My Memory
By: Carlos Martín-Baró | November 16, 2019Today, thirty years later, my memory has been dissipating that horror and now, in the midst of the confusion of having aged, I only seem to hear your voice, serene and vital, summoning me to an impossible new existence without limits of time and space.
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Commemorating Assassinations and Celebrating 30 Years of the MBF
By: Meredith Hawkins | October 18, 2019It was the hope of Nacho, and remains the hope of the Fund today as it transitions to an Initiative at Grassroots International, that through the fostering of psychosocial wellbeing and the pursuit of social reparations, society can begin to heal from its painful past and move towards a more equitable future.