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Marking a Milestone at FARUG
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Congratulations to 2019 Advocate Ssenfuka Joanita Warry “Biggie” and her colleagues at Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) on their organization’s 18th anniversary. FARUG is a women’s rights organization based in Uganda that advocates for and addresses issues of lesbians, Bisexuals and Queer persons (LBQ).

Twenty-five years after the Srebrenica Genocide
Accounting for the Missing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Beyond.
Monday, July 13, 2020
by Lara J. Nettelfield
This article was originally published in Kosovo 2.0. and OpenDemocracy
Alumni Highlight
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Shayna Halliwell, a Human Rights M.A. graduate, is currently based in Dakar working as a Partnerships Specialist for The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for francophone and lusophone West Africa and North Africa (17 countries in total). 

Advocate Highlight
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Kenedy Abor Owiti, 2017 HRAP participant, currently works as Support Assistant to the Office of the Co-Executive Directors at UHAI, the Eastern Africa Sexual Health and Rights Initiative. UHAI is the first indigenous and participatory African fund for Sexual and Gender Minorities and Sex Workers of Eastern Africa, and with over a decade of experience in the region.

Alumni Highlight
Thursday, July 2, 2020

Gaisu Yari, a 2018 Human Rights M.A. graduate, has been a diligent women’s rights pioneer since surviving Taliban rule and finishing high school by studying in secret, in defiance of the Taliban ban against girls’ education. Afterwards, she worked as a radio broadcaster, becoming one of the first Afghan women to work in the male-dominated media, and made time to campaign on behalf of Afghanistan’s first woman candidate for president.

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