The first such network of its kind, Conectas’ Global South Program is distinctive for being created in the South, by a southern human rights group, to increase the individual and collective influence of human rights activists and scholars working throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia.  The program offers a one-of-a-kind forum to help them:

• Transcend the isolation in which many of them work
  
  
• Share comparative experiences and expertise
  
  
• Infuse their activities with information about the latest developments in the field
  
  
• Acquire the skills needed to professionalize their operations
  
  
• Extend their reach
  
  
• Increase their presence and influence within the United Nations system and
  
  
• Collaborate on issues, and develop alliances, where the potential exists to move shared advocacy agendas.