Event Dates & Times:
- Start Date:January 13, 7:30 pm
- End Date:January 13, 9:00 pm
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About The Event:
Mary Durran was raised and educated in the UK and had her first experience of international development work while volunteering with Claretian missionaries in Yhu, Paraguay in 1985.
She began her career with CAFOD, Development and Peace’s sister agency in the UK, working on an education campaign on land, debt and slavery in the Global South. She then moved into human rights work with the London based Central America Human Rights Committees, accompanying study tours and MP delegations to El Salvador. This work inspired an 18 month stint as a freelance journalist based in El Salvador, covering Central America for several publications and radio. After El Salvador, she began a lifelong fascination with Haiti, where she worked as a human rights monitor with the UN, returning several times to the Caribbean nation both as a journalist and human rights worker.
In 2002, she started her career with Development and Peace as research and advocacy officer, drawing on her experience in Central America with social and human rights organizations to enhance the campaign that called on Canada to regulate its mining companies in their overseas operations. Working on a joint campaign with CAFOD, in 2007, she led a delegation of Canadian and UK MPs to Honduras, to gather information on the human rights and social impact of mining in the Central American country. In 2012, she moved from work on the campaign in Canada to become Latin America programs officer and is today responsible for Haiti, Honduras and Peru.