U.S. Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Lisa Johnson with Erin Greene during courtesy call at the U.S. Embassy.
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Nassau, Bahamas - On
August 22, Ms. Erin Greene, Director of Advocacy at SASH Bahamas, a
local Non-Governmental Organization met with U.S. Chargé d’Affaires a.i.
Lisa Johnson to discuss her recent participation
in a U.S. State Department sponsored professional exchange “Human
Rights for All.” The role of SASH Bahamas is to work with the lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender communities and to support persons
infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Ms. Greene also serves
as the regional chairperson of the Caribbean Association for Feminist
Research & Action (CAFRA).
Ms.
Greene was among a group of NGO and community leaders from Barbados,
Belize, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, and Suriname to
participate in the three-week professional exchange.
The program took them to Washington, DC, Memphis, Tennessee Little
Rock, Arkansas, Des Moines and Iowa City, Iowa and San Francisco,
California. The participants engaged American counterparts on values
and principles that shape the United States’ human rights
policies.
Ms.
Greene discussed with Chargé Johnson how she plans to apply her
experience to human rights initiatives in The Bahamas, while noting some
of her most memorable experiences, “The informational
activities like Memphis Black Pride, the Little Rock Memorial and the
Clinton Library tour affirmed for me the ways in which American and
Caribbean stakeholders can work together to ensure human rights for
all.”