A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

Pennsylvania and elsewhere as Minnesota Advocates may determine appropriate and feasible.
The Project also entails the taking of voluntary statements from Liberians now resident in
the United States of America; the compilation of such statements in a data base; the analysis
of such statements; the holding of public and confidential hearings; community hearings and
town hall discussions, workshops, seminars, etc on TRC thematic issues—women, children,
human rights violations, prosecution, institutional reforms, economic crimes and corruption;
and preparation of a Report to be submitted to the TRC responsive to the mandate of the
TRC and that addresses the subjects set forth herein above.
The Project is piloted in Minnesota and will be extended to other parts of the USA, as
envisaged, depending on the financial, material and human resource capacity of the parties.
6. Project Logistics The TRC bears ultimate responsibility for the leadership and implementation
of the project, while Minnesota Advocates is at liberty to mobilize any amount of resources
including logistics it deems appropriate or needed for the implementation of the project.
Already, Minnesota Advocates have secured the services of a consortium of pro bono lawyers
to work on the project as volunteers; Minnesota Advocates will establish a structure to provide
project leadership at the global national level while the local community advisory committees
will provide project leadership a the state/community level. Other resources already mobilized
by Minnesota Advocates include the Law Firm of Fredrikson & Byron which have agreed to
provide the technological support necessary to create and house the statement and thematic
hearings data base for the project; the law firm of Faegre & Benson have agreed to provide
meeting space for the Project training sessions and to take a first chair role in administering
the Project.
Minnesota Advocates has, in conjunction with the TRC, facilitated training programs and
will continue to do so as the project progresses and as needed. Working with the Community
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