Karla is a powerhouse! It’s an honor to support such a strong woman doing such important work for human rights and women’s rights. 

**Donate Today to Help Introduce Puerto Rico’s First Victims’ Rights Bill**

BACKGROUND

The Vivo Alliance Advocacy & Accountability Project was born from the lived experience of **Karla Hernández**, who faced endless roadblocks in her pursuit of justice after surviving a violent sexual assault in December 2020. Despite her bravery and persistence, the justice system failed her — her case was closed without resolution, and her assailant was never held accountable.

As Karla and her husband Gerald came to understand, her experience was not unique. Survivors across Puerto Rico are being retraumatized by a **broken and unaccountable justice system**. In response, they co-founded **Vivo Alliance**, a survivor-led nonprofit focused on reforming Puerto Rico’s legal and institutional response to sexual violence.

OUR PROJECT

Since 2023, Vivo Alliance has built a multi-phase campaign with national partners, researchers, and legal professionals to tackle this crisis.

With your help, we have:

- **Raised over $128,000 in our first year and a half**
- Partnered with faculty and students at the **University of Puerto Rico Law School**
- Conducted an in-depth **comparative legal analysis** of victims’ rights in all 50 U.S. states and 21 countries
- **Drafted a full legislative proposal** for a Victims' Bill of Rights for Puerto Rico
- **Published two reports** of our findings in the UPR Legal Journal
- Formed strategic partnerships with national and local allies including **RAINN**, **The Joyful Heart Foundation**, and **Coordinadora Paz para la Mujer**
- **Been featured in several local and national media pieces**
- **Begun strategic outreach to local government agencies and legislators**

This year, we are preparing to **introduce the bill in Puerto Rico’s Legislative Assembly** — and your support will help us get it to the floor.

WHY WE’RE RAISING $68,700

We are now in the most critical stretch of the campaign.

Our goal is to raise **$68,700** to:

- Secure a **legislative sponsor** and introduce the bill during the second regular session (Aug–Nov 2025)
- Lead a survivor-centered **public awareness campaign**
- Build a **coalition** of survivors, experts, NGOs, and public officials
- Maintain a small, full-time campaign team to coordinate these efforts

With this funding, we will be able to **introduce the bill, build political will, and elevate the voices of survivors** in the legislative process.

YOUR IMPACT

This is about more than just one bill — it’s about **changing the system** so that survivors are no longer ignored, retraumatized, or discarded.

Your donation today makes it possible to:

- Bring survivors to the table where laws are made
- Hold public institutions accountable
- Push forward the first survivor-led victims’ rights legislation in Puerto Rico

Vivo Alliance is proudly partnered with **Integro Foundation**, a 501(c)(3)/PR 1101 nonprofit organization, which serves as our legal and fiscal sponsor. All donations made here are **fully tax-deductible**.

ACT 20/22/60 DONORS:

Your donation qualifies under Act 60 requirements. After donating on this page, you will receive a receipt from Every.org. **Integro Foundation will also send you an official qualifying receipt** for your tax exemption.

**Thank you for helping us transform pain into purpose — and justice into law.**

Visit our website: [www.vivoalliance.org](https://www.vivoalliance.org)
Contact us: [**vivoalliancefoundation@gmail.com**]()

Donate Today to Improve Victims' Rights in Puerto Rico

A joint project between VIVO Alliance and Integro Foundation to advocate for victims' rights. 

Background:
The Victims' Rights Advocacy & Accountability Project was inspired by Karla Hernandez-Rosario's exhausting legal battle for justice after she was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted in December, 2020. Her plea for basic human rights was overtly denied by continuous roadblocks in the Puerto Rican justice system, which unequivocally favors the perpetrators of such heinous crimes. It's been nearly two years since her horrific ordeal, and yet no progress has been made to incriminate her assailant. After consulting with several legal professionals, multiple assault victims faced with similar challenges, as well as many non-profit organizations battling the scourge of gender/sexual violence, Karla and her husband came to the conclusion that the problem is indeed systemic. In Puerto Rico, victims of crime such as gender violence and sexual assault have no constitutional rights in the criminal proceedings against their offenders. It is common knowledge that the Puerto Rico Criminal Justice System, for decades, has shown callous disregard toward victims of these types of crimes in their fruitless pleas for justice, leaving them to suffer relentless personal, emotional, and financial wounds.

Vision of Project:
To rectify the severe imbalance between the rights of criminal defendants against the absent rights of victims, VIVO Alliance must raise the necessary funding to collaborate with a team of legal and research professionals, whom Karla and her husband, Gerald, have connected with on their own personal battle for legal justice. These professionals, along with the help of the University of PR, shall implement a work-study program for students from the UPR Legal and Journalism departments. Together, they shall harvest critical information to create an in-depth, on-demand database that clearly defines the severe imbalance of Puerto Rico's legal justice

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