Alicia Méndez Medina

Alicia Méndez Medina is a woman human rights defender from the Dominican Republic, focused on women’s rights, education, environmental issues and the rights of the Afro-descendant population. She has worked as a reporter, broadcaster, and has contributed to poetry anthologies, writing about social inequalities. Currently, she collaborates with an alternative media outlet with a focus on human rights in the country.

From an early age, Alicia joined social organisations, feminist groups, and spaces for the defence of human rights. She participated in Justicia Global, a Dominican organisation that fought against impunity. Alicia has also supported the Junta de Prietas Collective and the Socialist Movement of Workers, in the defence of Afro-descendant populations in the Dominican Republic.

She was also a spokesperson in demanding a halt to the mass deportations of Haitians, Dominicans of Haitian descent, victims of sentence 168-13 (legislation that denationalised Dominicans of Haitain descent), and black Dominicans – groups which have received numerous threats such as limits to their mobility and restrictions on work.