Vaishnavi Sundar, country contact for WHRC India, in conversation with Raquel Rosario Sánchez.
Raquel is a writer, campaigner and researcher from the Dominican Republic. She specialises in ending male violence against girls and women. Raquel is a columnist for Dominican newspaper El Caribe and a featured writer for Spanish platform Tribuna Feminista. On an international level, and aside from her work as an anti-violence advocate, Raquel campaigns for the protection and/or strengthening of sex-based rights. In recent years, she has campaigned for these protections in legislation and public policy initiatives in the Dominican Republic, the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom. As a researcher, she is currently pursuing a PhD with the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the University of Bristol. Her MA and PhD work focuses on men who pay for sex.
For more information: https://www.womensdeclaration.com/en/country-info/india/