Coletta Youngers, a Senior Associate with the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), is an analyst of human rights and political developments in the Andes and of U.S. foreign policy toward the Andean region. She is also the Project Director of WOLA's "Drugs, Democracy and Human Rights" project, a major research and advocacy effort. Youngers travels regularly to the Andean region, is frequently interviewed by Latin America and U.S. media, and writes and speaks widely on these issues and U.S. international drug control policy. She is currently completing a book to be published by the Instituto de Estudios Politicos in Lima, Peru on the history of the human rights movement in that country.
As a former Project Manager in the Peru-Chile office of Catholic Relief Services, Ms. Youngers monitored and evaluated rural and urban development and human rights projects by Peruvian NGOs. She has also worked with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (Western Hemisphere Division) and the editorial staff of Latinamerica Press/Noticias Aliadas in Lima, Peru. She is a graduate of the University of the South and holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
WOLA is a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote United States and multilateral policies toward Latin America that advance human rights, democratic institutions, citizen participation, and equitable economic development.
Articles written by this Advisory Committee Member for FPIF
Beyond the Drug War
Nov 25, 2008
Drugs and Democracy in Latin America
Nov 1, 2004
The U.S. and Latin America After 9-11 and Iraq
Jun 6, 2003
The U.S. and Latin America After 9-11 and Iraq
Jun 6, 2003
Bush's Foreign Policy in Latin America: Colombia and U.S. Drug Policy
Jan 1, 2001
Peru: Democracy & Dictatorship
Oct 1, 2000
Into the Quagmire: Colombia and the War on Drugs
May 2, 2000
Peru’s Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos: A Case Study of Coalition Building
by Coletta A. Youngers and Susan C. Peacock (November 2002)
Venezuela Crisis: A Joint Statement by the Washington Office on Latin America and Human Rights Watch
(October 9, 2002)
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