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Organization: Global Brigades in Canada
Organization: Global Brigades USA
Organization: Global Medical Brigades USA
Organization: SQUADS ABROAD
Chapter: D'Youville University Medical Brigades Chapter
Chapter: St. Francis Xavier University Legal Empowerment Chapter
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St. Francis Xavier University Legal Empowerment Chapter
Organization: Global Brigades in Canada
Program: Human Rights Brigades

About Us

St. Francis Xavier University is a chapter of Global Legal Empowerment Brigades, an international year-round movement of students and local professionals. We work in Greece where together, with local staff and as international students, we empower local community members and secure access to basic human rights. In Greece, our focus is on providing students with a deep understanding of the refugee context in Greece and Europe in general. This is 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

St. Francis Xavier University Empowered Legal Consulting November 2025 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.