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Organization: Global Brigades in Canada
Organization: Global Brigades United Kingdom
Organization: Global Brigades USA
Organization: SQUADS ABROAD
Chapter: Legal Empowerment at SOAS University of London
Chapter: Athena Empowered Business Consulting
Chapter: Business Academy by Global Brigades
Chapter: Business Brigades at Brooklyn College
Chapter: Business Brigades at Florida International University
Chapter: Business Brigades at Michigan State University
Chapter: Business Chapter at University of Massachusetts Boston
Chapter: Business Consulting Brigades at Western University
Chapter: Business Consulting Chapter at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting at Florida A&M University
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting Program at Case Western Reserve University
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting at Brigham Young University Idaho
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting at University of Georgia
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting at University of St Andrews
Chapter: Empowered Business Consulting Program at University of St. Andrew's
Chapter: Engineering Consulting Chapter at Florida State University
Chapter: Florida A&M University Legal Empowerment Chapter
Chapter: Legal Empowerment Brigades at Queen Mary University of London
Chapter: Legal Empowerment Brigades at San Diego State University
Chapter: Legal Empowerment Brigades at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Chapter: Legal Empowerment Brigades at University of Pittsburgh
Chapter: Medical Brigades at Athena
Legal Empowerment Brigades at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Website: https://www.globalbrigades.org/

Phone: 001 (206) 489-4798

Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Human Rights Brigades

About Us

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is a chapter of Global Legal Empowerment Brigades, an international year-round movement of students and local professionals. We work in Honduras and Greece where together, with local staff and international students, we empower local community members and secure access to basic human rights. In Honduras, we focus on supporting remote, rural, and under-resourced communities that have limited or no access to legal services. In Greece, our focus is on the students’ deep understanding and knowledge of the refugee context in Greece and Europe in general. This an amazing opportunity to prepare tomorrow’s human rights defenders! In conjunction with our Legal Empowerment Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with healthcare, economic development, and clean water and sanitation projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.




Upcoming Initiatives

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Legal Empowerment Brigade May 2026 Greece

 Global Brigades offers 7-day Legal Empowerment Brigades throughout the year in Honduras and Panama. Legal Empowerment Brigades primarily work with rural communities that are under-resourced and largely unaware of their own legal rights. Throughout the week, Legal Empowerment Brigades volunteers shadow Honduran lawyers to provide pro-bono legal consulting to rural communities. A free legal clinic provides opportunities for volunteers to not only receive experience with Honduran legal professionals but also experience first-hand the obstacles to justice and the culture of legal misinformation in rural communities. Volunteers also work to provide capacity building and education-based workshops on various legal concepts to empower communities through education. Additionally, volunteers continue shadowing Honduran lawyers while they gather important information to initiate the process of resolving family legal cases, many of which have been stalled in the Honduran legal system through institutional inefficiencies and the prohibitive high costs of legal services. Between brigades, Global Brigades’ in-country staff works to secure legal outcomes and provide follow-up to the community.