Meet Erin Greene- Advocate for Human Rights

Meet Erin Greene- Advocate for Human Rights

Released Tuesday, 16th March 2021
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Meet Erin Greene- Advocate for Human Rights

Meet Erin Greene- Advocate for Human Rights

Meet Erin Greene- Advocate for Human Rights

Meet Erin Greene- Advocate for Human Rights

Tuesday, 16th March 2021
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Erin Greene is a Bahamian human rights activist. She is considered a leading advocate for LGBT rights in the Bahamas, having been described as "arguably the country’s most outspoken LGBT activist. Greene is a longtime advocate for human rights, including for women, immigrants, and the incarcerated, but particularly for LGBT Bahamians. She began her work as an activist in earnest in the late 1990s and early 2000s, helping organize the first Pride event in the country in 2001 In 2000, she joined the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA), becoming its Bahamas representative in 2002 and eventually becoming regional chairperson. When the Rainbow Alliance of the Bahamas coalesced in 2003, Greene became the organization's spokesperson, eventually serving as the group's president before it shut down in 2008.

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