A Gullah/Geechee Child’s Life at Risk: Saving Ariana-Leilani

Gullah/Geechee Nation

by Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation

Since 1999, I have been blessed with the opportunity to walk the halls and contribute to the global dialogues in the United Nations both in Genevé, Switzerland and New York City in the USA.   When I became the first Gullah/Geechee to speak in this world arena on behalf of my people, the Gullah/Geechees, it was during a time when very few people around the world seemed to know that we existed much less to know about the human rights abuses that we had to endure.  In addition to that, many Gullah/Geechees then and many still do not understand their connection to international law and human rights.  They have fought time and time again to have their civil rights protected and to react to local laws that caused their displacement and destructionment, but they did not believe that taking our issues beyond…

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