Our coalition recently developed a joint submission to the UN Human Rights Council before the USA’s upcoming 4th Universal Periodic Review. This submission focused on the significant deterioration of sexual and reproductive rights and justice across the country since the elimination of a federal right to abortion and amid a broader undermining of rights in the USA.

Anna Braverman is a Legal Intern at the Global Justice Center, studying at NYU School of Law. She is also a legal intern with the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, in which capacity she represented the Commission at the ICRC Regional Conference for the Americas in Mexico City and moderated a side event during International Law Week in New York. Last summer, she interned at the Center for Justice and International Law, where she worked on litigation before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights regarding forced sterilizations in Peru. Prior to law school, Anna graduated with a Master’s Degree in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School. During her time at Fletcher, she interned with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, and the UN Executive Office of the Secretary-General. She was also a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico.

Natasha Bashore-Walker is an undergraduate senior at Bard College studying human rights. Her academic interests include gender equity, transnational solidarity movements, and transitional justice. For the first two years of her undergraduate degree, she studied abroad at Bard College Berlin, Bard’s international satellite campus, which has informed her commitment to addressing social and political inequalities between the Global North and South. On campus, Natasha has served as a counselor in the peer-to-peer counseling program, providing 24/7 counseling services and mental health resources to students. She has also interned at the New School’s Global Mental Health Center to provide culturally appropriate and scalable mental health interventions for displaced refugee and migrant populations in Switzerland. After graduation, Natasha plans to pursue graduate studies in a program that focuses on human rights from a global and feminist perspective.

Evan Rossi is an undergraduate senior at Columbia University studying English and Comparative Literature. He is driven by a passion for human rights, gender equality, and social equity, which has informed his past community organizing in New Jersey and New York City. On campus, he is involved with local volunteering for housing and reproductive justice, academic and political publications, and various performing arts organizations. After graduation, he plans to pursue a career in nonprofit law, tackling contemporary issues concerning civil rights on a national and international scale.