Gina Nespoli

New to the U.S. Campaign for Burma, Gina Nespoli currently attends American University in Washington, D.C., and will be traveling to the Thai-Burma border in December to study the democracy movement and human rights violations in Burma.

Building Solidarity with Burma's Nonviolent Resistance

Monks in Burma

For over two decades, campaigners around the world worked for the freedom of a man who has come to symbolize human rights. At many times the struggle to free Nelson Mandela and all the people of South Africa seemed bleak. South Africans faced an unyielding apartheid government, while international campaigners dealt with intransigent governments that placed narrowly defined geopolitical interests above self-determination for the people of South Africa.