Rosanna Marzan
The annual Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk was established in 2005 to honour the work of HRDs who are courageously making outstanding contributions to the promotion and protection of the human rights of others, often at great personal risk to themselves.
Rosanna Marzan is a woman human rights defender, lawyer and social educator from the Dominican Republic who adopts an intersectional and intergrational approach to her work. She has dedicated her career to advancing the rights of the LGBT+ community in Dominican Republic and in 2012, she established the non-governmental organisation Diversidad Dominicana (Dominican Diversity), with the purpose of promoting the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex people in Dominican Republic and throughout the region.
