Like many law students, she dreamed of fighting for justice, making a name for herself in the legal world, and changing the world. However, it was a chance visit to the civil prison in Port-au-Prince that transformed this aspiring "master" and drew her into the world of human rights. "When I saw the appalling conditions of the detainees, something clicked inside me. I didn't know exactly how I was going to do it, but I wanted to spend time advocating for these people in detention," she recalls. She began working for t
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Rosy Auguste Ducena: "In the defense of human rights, giving up is abandoning the victims"
Lawyer and human rights activist, Rosy Auguste Ducena is currently the Program Director for the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) in Haiti. She has been involved in this fight for over twenty years and has no regrets. For her, it is first and foremost a calling, a way to fight for the country she loves to live in.