It’s been less than a year since Suyén Barahona was released from a Nicaraguan prison and exiled to the United States for daring to speak out against her government.
But the pro-democracy, human rights activist said she will not be silenced. Rather, she is taking her advocacy for feminist politics global as the new head of a $25 million fund sponsored by Open Society Foundations to advance women’s political leadership, particularly in the global south.
The fund will support feminist political leaders such as Barahona “at every stage, helping them to enter politics, succeed in governance, and sustain their influence in formal electoral and other political settings,” OSF said in a statement to Devex.