UC Irvine Human Rights June 2014 Panama

Start Date: Jun 17, 2014 12:00 AM
End Date: Jun 23, 2014 12:00 AM

Global Brigades offers a 7 day Human Rights Brigade for volunteers to participate in throughout the year in Panama. Human Rights Brigades volunteers work with Panamanian lawyers to provide pro-bono legal consulting to rural communities. Volunteers offer services through a free legal clinic, where volunteers shadow and assist lawyers as they provide legal consulting to community members. Volunteers also work to incorporate unregistered communities to empower them with rights and government benefits that they would not have received otherwise. Human Rights Brigades primarily works with rural communities that are under resourced and largely unaware of their legal rights. Additionally, volunteers provide legal capacity building workshops on various legal concepts to empower communities through education. Between brigades, Global Brigades’ in-country staff works to secure legal outcomes and provide follow-up to the community.