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MADRE Human Rights Delegations
MADRE sends Voyages with a Vision delegations to the communities of our sister organizations to gain a firsthand understanding of human rights struggles and facilitate an exchange of friendship and support between delegates and women and youth activists in the countries where we work.
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Nicaragua
Meet with Indigenous communities on the North Atlantic Coast about their efforts to protect the region's biodiversity and defend Indigenous Peoples' rights and resources. Enjoy a trip along the Rio Coco to learn about the use of medicinal plants in traditional healing practices and women's health care. And explore the region's unique system of autonomy with community groups who are working to equip local people with the skills for self-government, resource management, and human rights advocacy.
Read reflections from a recent MADRE delegate!
Guatemala
Meet with women in Guatemala City fighting to end abusive labor conditions in sweatshops and Indigenous activists and educators in the highlands working to promote Indigenous Peoples' rights. Learn about current human rights struggles in Guatemala, meet with members of an emerging sexual rights movement, and discover the creative ways communities are responding to free-trade agreements like CAFTA.
View photos from a recent MADRE delegation to Guatemala.
Kenya
Visit Indigenous Maasai and Samburu communities, and meet with local activists about their work to promote environmental sustainability in the face of climate change and attacks on Indigenous Peoples' resources. Learn about women's community-based strategies to combat threats to health and human rights like HIV/AIDS and female genital mutilation (FGM). And join MADRE's partners for a special safari on their ancestral lands!
View photos from a recent MADRE delegation to Kenya.
Argentina
Meet with LGBTI, faith-based, and community activists and learn about the burgeoning sexual rights movement in South America.
Chiapas, Mexico
Visit communities and learn directly from Indigenous women activists about the dangerous consequences of militarization and free trade in Mexico and beyond.
Peru
Learn from Indigenous and Afro-Peruvian activists about Latin America's thriving social movements and experience the beauty of Peru.
Cuba:
MADRE is currently unable to bring delegations to Cuba. For years, MADRE has organized semi-annual delegations to Cuba. These delegations have provided thousands of people with the opportunity to gather first-hand information about Cuba, witness the impact of the decades-long US embargo on women and families and learn about Cuba's public health system, one of the best in the world despite the crisis posed by the embargo. Recently, the US Administration tightened restrictions on legal travel to Cuba. As a result, MADRE has not been issued a new license from the US Department of the Treasury, preventing us from bringing delegations to Cuba.
We will keep you posted of any changes and will notify you as soon as we are able to organize educational trips again to Cuba. For more information about MADRE's Cuba program and the US embargo, which restricts legal travel to Cuba, please visit our Cuba page.
All trips feature experienced guides and translation.
