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Analysis and Reports
6 Points in regards to the U.S.-Mexico Migration Agreement as well as the border that is latest Apprehension Numbers
WOLA Podcast: The El Paso-Juarez Border
WOLA Documentary: 40 many years of Advocacy for Human Rights within the Americas
Statements and Pr Announcements
Ivan Marquez Rearming is just A wake-up call: efforts to completely Implement the Colombian Peace Accords Need to be Escalated
Visa Imposed by Ecuador on Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees Goes Against Overseas Human Rights responsibilities
Overseas and Civil Society Organizations Celebrate the Accomplishments associated with the CICIG
Pathways Away From Crisis: Views from Venezuelan Civil Community
Due to the fact governmental, financial, and social crisis in Venezuela deepens, civil culture businesses are playing an important role in resisting.
Thursday, 12 September 2019
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Woodrow Wilson Global Center for Scholars
Protecting Peace: Progress and Challenges when it comes to Comprehensive utilization of the 2016 Colombia Peace Accords
The Washington workplace on Latin America (WOLA) cordially invites one to: WOLA’s Colombia that is annual Peace a bit more than.
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Holeman Lounge, The nationwide Press Club 529 St that is 14th NW Washington, DC 20045
Our staff are leading professionals on Latin America
Matt Clausen
Matt Clausen is WOLA’s President. He brings to WOLA several years of leadership experience with the sector that is non-profit where he’s built effective multi-sector engagement methods that span across boundaries.
Geoff Thale
Vice President for Tools
Geoff Thale could be the Vice President for products during the Washington workplace on Latin America (WOLA), a research that is leading advocacy company advancing peoples rights into the Americas. He follows trends that are hemispheric well as U.S. policy toward the spot,…
Adriana Beltran
Director for Citizen Protection
Adriana Beltran leads WOLA’s Citizen Security Program, concentrating on physical violence prevention, and authorities and judicial reform in Central America. As well as her work with citizen protection, Ms. Beltran spent some time working extensively on individual legal legal rights and organized criminal activity, especially in…
Marguerite Rose Jimenez
Director for Cuba
Marguerite Rose Jimenez joined up with WOLA in 2016 as Director for Cuba having spent the last 12 years taking care of Cuba within NGOs, think tanks, educational organizations, & most recently in the national government.
Adam Isacson
Director for Defense Oversight
Adam Isacson spent some time working on protection, protection, and peacebuilding in Latin America since 1994. He now directs WOLA’s Defense Oversight system, which monitors U.S. cooperation with Latin security that is america’s, and also other safety styles.
Maureen Meyer
Director for Mexico and Migrant Rights
Maureen Meyer directs WOLA’s Mexico system by having a unique give attention to analyzing U.S.-Mexico safety policies and their reference to arranged crime-related physical physical violence, corruption, and human being liberties violations in Mexico. She encourages justice for individual legal rights violations in Mexico and also…
Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli
Director when it comes to Andes
Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli is the Colombia that is leading human advocate during the Washington workplace on Latin America (WOLA). Ms. Sanchez is a professional on comfort and unlawful armed teams, internally displaced people, human being legal rights and minority that is ethnic. Her work has…
John Walsh
Director for Drug Policy therefore the Andes
John Walsh has coordinated WOLA’s Drug Policy system since 2003, meant for more humane and effective medication policies when you look at the Americas. Respected for their mixture of careful policy analysis and advocacy that is effective Mr. Walsh has helped establish WOLA as…
Jo-Marie Burt
Senior Fellow
Jo-Marie Burt is just a senior other at WOLA devoted to Peru. She shows science that is political George Mason University, where this woman is presently acting co-director of this Center for Global Studies. Her research is targeted on governmental physical violence and state energy,…
David Smilde
Senior Fellow
David Smilde is really a fellow that is senior WOLA devoted to Venezuela. He’s the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations at Tulane University and moderates the WOLA Venezuela Politics and Human Rights web log. Their research concentrates…
Coletta Youngers
Senior Fellow
Coletta Youngers is an expert that is leading worldwide medication control policy and medication policy associated developments in Latin America. She’s got over thirty many years of experience working on peoples legal rights and developments that are political the Andean Region and U.S. foreign…
Elizabeth Leeds
Senior Fellow
Elizabeth Leeds is a fellow that is senior WOLA’s work with resident protection and peoples liberties in Brazil. She actually is a leading expert on police reform along with other dilemmas of resident protection in Brazil, having carried out substantial research and industry work…