On February 28, the Warren Educational Policies Program (WEPP) office participated in the launch event of the “Panorama of Human Rights Education in Brazil: Agencies, Policies, and Actions” held by the Aurora Institute. The Panorama provides an unprecedented roadmap that offers the monitoring of policies in Brazil that the Aurora Institute – an organization from the south of Brazil that works with research and advocacy in favor of Human …
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On March 6-7, 2023, the Auschwitz Institute’s Mediterranean Basin Programs (MBP) team implemented a training program for future border police agents entitled “Strengthening Democratic Resilience in Border Spaces during a Global Migration Crisis” in Oradea, Romania, Implemented in cooperation with the Border Police Agents Training School “Avram Iancu” this customized program benefitted 240 students. Over two intensive days, participants discussed topics related to the current challenges of the global …
Read moreThrough our Profiles in Prevention series, the Auschwitz Institute highlights leaders who have emerged from programs like our Raphael Lemkin Seminar with an especially strong commitment to preventing genocide and other mass atrocities. These role models strive to create and shape policies, both at home and abroad, that focus on effective and sustainable prevention.
Irene Cabrera is a Professor at the Externado University in Colombia, where she leads research projects on mixed migration flows, armed conflict, and peacebuilding. She is also Co-director of the Barometer of Xenophobia, a platform to monitor and prevent expressions of xenophobia against migrants in Colombia. She has conducted research projects for the Colombian Truth Commission, as well as the national Office of the Ombudsperson and the UN High Commissioner …
Gérard Hakizimana is a Burundian activist whose work on conflict management has influenced the Burundian state in its search for peace and peaceful cohabitation in recent years. Mr. Hakizimana is a longtime Human Rights Defender and has collaborated with many national and international organizations, such as CNIDH, CVR, and ONPG. A prominent civil society actor in Burundi, he has served as the president of the organization “Force de Lutte …
Dr. Feride Rushiti is the founder and Executive Director of the Kosovo Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (KRCT). Through almost two decades of research and advocacy, Dr. Rushiti has secured access to healthcare and justice for civilian victims of Kosovo’s* 1998-1999 war. Her advocacy led to the recognition of the survivors of wartime sexual violence among other civilian victims of war in 2014 as well as the landmark decision in 2017 by the Cossack government to fund pensions for Kosovo’s victims of wartime sexual violence.
Dr. Ruth Meyre M. Rodrigues is a Portuguese-language Teacher in the Educational Public System of the Federal District of Brazil. In 2016, she became a public official, serving as Director of Rural Education, Human Rights, and Diversity issues at the Secretariat of Education of the Federal District. Dr. Meyre M. Rodrigues holds a PhD in Education from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where she was part of a …
Mauricio Coitiño (@mauricio_uy) is a specialist in public policy and communications from a human rights perspective. He holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the Catholic University of Uruguay with a specialization in Methods and Analysis. As a consultant, he has completed projects involving the research and design of public policy, trained officials on human rights and discrimination issues, and evaluated international social organizations. Between 2010 and 2011, …
Francisco Celso Leitão Freitas is a history teacher and the Pedagogical Director of the Respect and Attitude Association (AREA, for its initials in Portuguese) in Brazil. A a cultural producer and specialist in inclusive education, he is the creator of, and collaborator on, many educational and cultural projects aimed at empowering Black, poor, and marginalized youth in Brazil’s Federal District. The impact of his pedagogical-cultural interventions has been recognized …
Irinel Rotariu is a Colonel Magistrate and military prosecutor at the Military Prosecutor’s Office in Iași, Romania. He attended the Law Faculty at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași, Romania, where, since 2007, he has served as an Associate Professor. Currently, he is engaged in doctoral studies in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Political Sciences at the same university. From May of 2018, he has been …
Lokuto Bismark Simon works with the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization – South Sudan (CEPO) as a Project Officer and also acts as a member of the South Sudan National Committee for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and All Forms of Discrimination. He attended the November 2018 edition of the Global Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention in Poland.
Putri Maha Lima is the Director of Policy, Education and Publicity at the Secretariat of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) in Jakarta, Indonesia. Before joining AIPA, she was a Program Coordinator for Regional Cooperation for a German political foundation based in Indonesia and was also nominated by UNICEF to participate in Leiden University’s Short Course on Children’s Rights. Ms. Maha Lima attended AIPR’s Raphael Lemkin Global Seminar in Poland in …
Lillian Kobusingye currently serves as a Program Officer at the Uganda Association of Women Lawyers – FIDA-Uganda – a national women’s organization that advances the rights of women with the use of law as a social tool. An alumna of the University of Wales in the United Kingdom, she devotes her time as an activist toward issues concerning the rights of women and children in Uganda. Ms. Kobusingye attended …