"Human Rights in the Virgin Islands: Why does it matter?"— Community Forum
A direct outgrowth of the leadership development work sponsored by Virgin Islands
Perinatal Incorporated with a grant from the Ford Foundation, the forum on human
rights was the first of its kind in the Virgin Islands and offered the over sixty
participants a change to explore the tenets of human rights, its application to the right
to health care and how it can shape health care policy in the Territory. Ms. Byllye Avery,
founder and president of the Avery Institute for Social Change, was the keynote,
followed by a panelist including Elise Donovan of International Affairs Secretariat in the
British Virgin Islands and Carlyle Corbin, international advisor on governance at the
University of the Virgin Islands.Read more in this newspaper article…
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