Darlene Marquez-Caramanzana documents stories of Filipina survivors of human rights violations
Darlene Marquez-Caramanzana, a United Methodist deaconess and National Council of Churches executive in the Philippines, received an award for her work documenting the stories of women survivors of human rights violations, including how those women fought for justice.
The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s Studies and the UPCWS Foundation Inc. gave Marquez-Caramanzana a Lourdes Lontok-Cruz Award for her thesis, “Women Confronting State-Instigated Violence: Experiences of Female Relatives of Victims of Human Rights Violations in the Philippines.” She presented her thesis in a recent lecture series, Women in the Revolutionary Struggle, at the University of the Philippines.
For her research, she had interviewed women who are mothers, daughters, and wives of victims of extrajudicial killings and disappearances.
