In the run-up to March 8th, International Women’s Day, Lawyers for Lawyers will highlight the important work of five inspiring female lawyers in a new podcast series. In our podcast series, we will talk to five female lawyers from all over the world. We will address the challenges they face as women in the male dominated legal profession, who inspires them and the development of the position of female lawyers in their respective countries.

For our fourth episode we have interviewed Czarina Musni. Czarina she is a member of the Union of Peoples Lawyers (UPLM) in Mindanao, and the National Union of Peoples Lawyers in the Philippines. Czarina mostly handles cases of national minorities, such as the Lumad people, as they exercise their rights as indigenous people, but also of workers who demand fair wages, and peasants calling out for land reform.

Episode 4: Czarina Musni

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