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Lydia Alpízar Durán
Former Executive Director, Association for Women's Rights in Development · Canada
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Lydia Alpízar Durán is the CEO of Association for Women's Rights in Development. Durán is based in Canada. Durán was born in 1950.
Costa Rican feminist activist who served as Executive Director of AWID since 2007. Co-founder of multiple youth networks for reproductive and sexual rights in Latin America and co-founder of IM-Defensoras. Graduate of Columbia University's Human Rights Advocacy Training Program.
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- 1950
- Citizenship
- Costa Rica
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