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Description: André Dambi (Angola) worked at the Instituto Politécnico N'Galula Tonet as Director of the Legal Department from 1999 to 2000. In 1999, he also attended courses on computer science and on international contract law in Cuba. Currently, Mr. Dambi works at an NGO called Mãos ... Read on

Description: José Patrocínio (Angola) began working with human rights issues in 1995, when he worked for a media group taking signatures for the defense of displaced people. Since 1998, he has worked for Okutiuka—Acção para a Vida focusing on the rights of street children. Through ... Read on

Description: Manuel Bartolomeu da Costa (Angola) has spent the last four years working for the Angolan government and writing reports on human rights violations. He also worked two years as the editorial coordinator of a radio station and four years as a freelance journalist for Voz de ... Read on

Description: Aida Gevorgyan (Armenia) fulfilled a 3 months internship in the Strategy Unit/Director General's Office in the area of Health and Human Rights at the World Health Organization, in Geneva. One of principal responsibilities during this period was to write a paper for WHO entitled ... Read on

Description: Liana Haroyan (Armenia) graduated from law school in 1998. In 1999, she started to work at the Free Legal Aid Center of the Bar Association of the Republic of Armenia (BARA) as a Legal Assistant and from 2000 to 2003 as a Legal Adviser. In 2003 she was offered and accepted a ... Read on

Description: Anar Kazimov (Azerbaijan) Contact information Organization: Azerbaijan Lawyers Association Email: anarkazimov@azeronline.com Fellowship information University: Washington College of ... Read on

Description: Elnur Nasibov (Azerbaijan) graduated from the Baku State Universtiy aculty of International Law and International Relations in 1998. In the same year, he joined the Children Rights Protection League (CRPL) and started to work for the joint OSI/CRPL project monitoring and ... Read on

Description: Mahir Mushteid-zada (Azerbaijan) is a graduate of the Baku State University International Law Department. He is currently an LL.M. candidate for Human Rights at the Central European University. Mr. Mushteid-zada is the co-founder and has been head of the International ... Read on

Description: Alesya Vidruk (Belarus) graduated from the Belarussian State University Law Faculty in 1999. Since 1998, she has worked as a lawyer at the Independent Society for Legal Research, presently known as the Foundation for Legal Technologies. Ms. Vidruk's major duties at the ... Read on

Description: Contact information Organization: Central European University Occupation: MA Candidate Phone: +36705439405 Email: L03KRA01@student.ceu.hu, an4a@tut.by Fellowship information University: ... Read on

Description: Achieng Maureen Akena, Botswana is Activism Program Officer at DITSHWANELO—The Botswana Center for Human Rights. DITSHWANELO is an advocacy organization working to promote and protect human rights in Botswana, specifically for marginalized and powerless communities. Its ... Read on

Description: Antoanela Pavlova (Bulgaria) currently works as an Associate Minority Rights Officer for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, Office of the Returns and Communities. Her work includes legal research and counseling on various human rights and minority rights issues. Ms. Pavlova completed her ... Read on

Description: Daniela Mihailova (Bulgaria) Contact information Organization: Romani Baht Foundation Email: mihailova@hotmail.com Fellowship information University: Columbia University School of ... Read on

Description: Dilyana Giteva (Bulgaria) is the Legal Defense Program Director at the Human Rights Project in Sofia. The Human Rights Project, established in 1992, monitors Roma rights in Bulgaria and provides legal defense for Roma victims of human rights violations, including ethnically ... Read on

Description: Fatme Myuhtar (Bulgaria) is a member of the Muslim-Turkish minority in Bulgaria. She had pursued studies in both Psychology and Journalism at two universities in Bulgaria, the South-Western University and the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), before enrolling at the CEU ... Read on

Description: Ivan Ivanov (Bulgaria) Contact information Organization: European Roma Rights Center Email: ivanov@errc.org Fellowship information University: Columbia University School of Law ... Read on

Description: Theodora Krumova (Bulgaria) plans to start her work as a lawyer with the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee in September 2003, where she will establish a new gender program that will support anti-discrimination lawsuits and other test litigation in promoting women's rights. Prior to ... Read on

Description: Vesselina Vandova (Bulgaria) graduated from the Sofia University Faculty of Law in 1995. Between 1996 and 1997, she participated in COLPI's Human Rights Advocacy Training Programme at the American University Washington College of Law. Upon her return to Bulgaria in 1997, she ... Read on

Description: Ines Bulic (Croatia) Contact information Organization: Amnesty International Croatia Email: ines.bulic@zg.htnet.hr Fellowship information University: Central European University ... Read on

Description: Ivna Bajsic (Croatia) started working for GONG in 2000, after finishing Law School at the University of Zagreb. GONG is a non-partisan and independent organization that encourages transparency in law making and empowers Croatian citizens and independent organizations to ... Read on

Description: Barbora Bukovska (Czech Republic) is a staff attorney and project coordinator at the Centre for Citizenship/Civil and Human Rights in Prague, an organization that litigates the discrimination of (mostly, but not exclusively) Roma in the Czech courts in the areas of housing, the ... Read on

Description: Lucie Ripova (Czech Republic) Contact information Organization: Kolumbus NGO Email: ripova.lucie@seznam.cz Fellowship information University: Columbia University School of Law ... Read on

Description: Monika Ladmanova (Czech Republic) is the director of the Open Society, Public Benefit Association, where she works on advocacy programs for women, including a joint initiative of Czech NGOs to enforce equal opportunities through legislation, a joint Czech-Slovak Women's Fund, ... Read on

Description: Fitsum Alemu (Ethiopia) Contact information Organization: Law Office of Mikre Ayele Email: Fitsumalemu@hotmail.com Fellowship information University: Washinton College of Law ... Read on

Description: Akaki Minashvili (Georgia) is a lawyer at the Liberty Institute, a Georgian human rights nongovernmental organization. He provides free legal counseling to victims of human rights violations, focusing on freedom of expression and freedom of information issues. He is currently ... Read on

Description: Giorgi Meladze (Georgia) works as a lawyer with the Liberty Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, a nongovernmental organization devoted to protecting civil liberties of all citizens of Georgia. Having recently returned to Georgia from his year at the Columbia University School of ... Read on

Description: Grigol Giorgadze (Georgia) works as a lawyer with the Center for the Protection of Constitutional Rights in Tbilisi. He is also Director of the Patients' Legal Clinic Project at the Center. Since 2001 Mr. Giorgadze has been working predominantly on patients' rights, in ... Read on

Description: Tatiana Pataraia (Georgia) Contact information Organization: NGO "Kidobani" Email: tatapat_ge@yahoo.com Fellowship information University: Columbia University School of Law ... Read on

Description: Tinatin Khidasheli (Georgia) is a founder, lawyer, and member of the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA). Ms. Khidasheli obtained her degree in International Law while in Georgia. She was later awarded an MA in Political Science from the Central European University. She ... Read on

Description: Balazs Denes (Hungary) is a staff lawyer of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. The HCLU is a non-profit Human Rights organization founded in Budapest in 1994. Mr. Denes received his law degree in 1998, from ELTE University, Budapest. From 1998-2001, he worked at the HCLU's ... Read on

Description: Edina Vinnai (Hungary) works for the Hungarian Helsinki Committee. Since July 2002, she has worked on a joint program with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) entitled "Effective Legal Counseling for Those in Need of International Protection." She has also been ... Read on

Description: Eszter Polgari (Hungary) graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law in 2003. Since 2000 she has been working for the Human Rights Information and Documentation Center (INDOK) as a legal assistant. Ms. Polgari coordinated a discrimination monitoring program ... Read on

Description: Renata Arianingtyas (Indonesia) became an Assistant Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Indonesia after graduating from there in 1996. During this time, she has also been active in research activities at the Laboratory of Political Science. She is finishing her ... Read on

Description: Cairo, January 25, 2006— Open Society Justice Initiative and the American University in Cairo, along with six partner organizations, announce the Open Society Institute (OSI)-Supported Human Rights Fellows Retreat. The retreat is being held in Cairo on January 26-28, 2006 and will ... Read on

Description: Tsering Topgyal (Tibet) Contact information Organization: House of Peace NGO Email: tsetop61@yahoo.co.in Fellowship information University: CEU / Justice Initiative practicing HR ... Read on

Description: Zahra Maranlou (Iran) started working as a journalist writing legal columns in an Iranian reformist newspaper after graduating with a law degree. In 1999, she was a candidate for Best Iranian Journalist in Society and Critics. As a legal advisor and researcher with the Iran ... Read on

Description: Vitaly V. Gromov (Kazakhstan) Contact information Organization: Special Olympics Email: Vgrom@mail.ru Fellowship information University: Columbia University School of Law ... Read on

Description: Elvira Habibulina (Kyrgyzstan) is a member of the Kyrgyz Bar Association and the Director of the Center for the Legal Assistance for Prisoners, a nongovernmental organization devoted to active protection of prisoners rights, assistance in penal reform and reduction of ... Read on

Description: Yury Shentsov (Kyrgyzstan) is the Executive Director of Legal Forum, an association of nine NGOs in Kyrgysztan that focus on the protection and promotion of human rights in the country. Mr. Shentsov is also a pro-bono lawyer for several human rights NGOs in Kyrgyzstan, ... Read on

Description: Dovile Juodkaite (Lithuania) works as an attorney with the Lithuanian Welfare Society for Persons with Mental Disabilities "Viltis," which represents people with mental disabilities, their families, their caregivers, and supporters. The organization seeks to protect the rights, ... Read on

Description: Jolanta Samuolyte (Lithuania) received a Bachelor of Law from Concordia International University of Estonia (CIUE) in Tallinn, Estonia. She majored in European Union Law and International Comparative Law and has a minor in Political Science. Since August 2002, she has pursued ... Read on

Description: Marta Villarreal (Mexico) is a human rights advocate at Sin Fronteras, I.A.P., a nongovernmental organization devoted to promoting and protecting the rights of migrants and refugees. She is responsible for legal representation in individual cases and participates in case ... Read on

Description: Patricia Hernandez Ruiz (Mexico) has collaborated for the past two years with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) in Mexico. The NCSC is an international, nongovernmental organization dedicated to judicial training and the optimization of court resources, with an ... Read on

Description: Natalia Mardari (Moldova) studied at the Moldavian State University Legal Department, specializing in International Law. Since 1998 she has worked at the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Republic of Moldova. The mission of the Moldavian Helsinki Committee is to ... Read on

Description: Contact information Organization: Mongolian Foundation For Open Society Occupation: Law program coordinator Phone: + 976-11-313207 Fax: +976-11-324857 Email: bayaraa@yahoo.com Postal address: XacBank ... Read on

Description: Enkhtuya Bavuu (Mongolia) Contact information Organization: Mongolian Women Lawyers' Association Email: Enkhuya1963@hotmail.com Fellowship information University: Washington College ... Read on

Description: Berta Chilundo (Mozambique) is natural of Zavala, Inhambane. She graduated in Law in 2003 at the University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique. She works for FECIV - Instituto de Educação Cívica (Civic Education Institute) and intends to participate in three different projects ... Read on

Description: Unaity da Costa Fortuna Jaime (Mozambique) is a human rights advocate at Muleide, the Women's Association of Law and Development, a nongovernmental Mozambican organization promoting a vision of a society respectful of gender equality. The association aims to promote a culture ... Read on

Description: Antony Nwapa (Nigeria) Contact information Organization: Africa Program of the Open Society Justice Initiative Email: anwapa2000@yahoo.com Fellowship information University: ... Read on

Description: Emelonye Uchenna Jackies (Nigeria) is a Gold Recipient of the Nigerian National Youths Award. He is a 1994 LL.B law graduate of Abia State University in Nigeria and was admitted to practice law as a barrister and solicitor of the supreme court of Nigeria in 1995. In 1998 he ... Read on

Description: Michael Utsaha (Nigeria) graduated from the Government College Makurdi in Benue State, Nigeria, in 1987. He obtained an LL.B at the University of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria in 1994, and was called to the Nigerian Bar and enrolled as Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court ... Read on

Description: Agnieszka Wardak (Poland) is a full-time attorney in the legal department of the family help organization "ERKA" in Szczecin, Poland. She provides free legal services to abused women and children, mostly from families with alcoholism and drug abuse problems. Prior to joining ... Read on

Description: Ireneusz Kondak, Poland Fellowship information University: Washington College of Law Year: ... Read on

Description: Katarzyna Czepelak (Poland) graduated in 2003 with a law degree from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, having completed a Master's thesis entitled "The creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and its impact on the development of ... Read on

Description: Łukasz Bojarski (Poland) is the Legal Officer and Project Coordinator for the Polish NGO, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw. Mr. Bojarski runs the Program on Access to Justice (Access to Legal Aid) and the Program on the Professional Responsibility of Lawyers. ... Read on

Description: Augustin Nicolae Varnav (Romania) graduated from the Law Faculty in Iasi, Romania, in 2000. That same year he entered the local Bar Association as a trainee lawyer. In 2001 Mr. Varnav joined the COLPI Fellowship Program. He graduated from the Central European University in ... Read on

Description: Constantin Cojocariu (Romania) is currently completing his LL. M. in Human Rights at the Central European University, in Budapest, Hungary. His basic degree is a BA in Law from the Al. I. Cuza University in Iasi, Romania. He also has an MA in Political Science from the same ... Read on

Description: Corina Leca (Romania) has worked in human rights education, education for democracy, and civic education since 1990. She ran various training courses (mainly workshop format) for teachers, principals, students, public servants on these topics in Romania and the Republic of ... Read on

Description: Cristi Mihalache (Romania) graduated from the Faculty of Public Administration of the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest, Romania in June 2002. He is currently pursuing an MA in Human Rights at the Central European University (CEU). He is a ... Read on

Description: Dezideriu Gergely (Romania), born into a mixed family (to a Hungarian-Roma father and Romanian mother), and has a BA in Law from the Babes Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania. At present he is a private lawyer, member of the Bucharest Bar Association, and Head of the Human ... Read on

Description: Horatiu Rusu (Romania) graduated from the Simion Batrnutiu Law Faculty in Sibiu, Romania, with a major in Public Administration in July 2002. In August 2002, he was accepted as an Open Society Institute Fellow in order to pursue an MA in Human Rights at the Central European ... Read on

Description: Ioana Emanuela Atasiei (Romania) received a BA in Law from the AL.I.Cuza University of Iasi in 2000. She is currently in her final year in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the same university. Her major is "Psychology for Children with Special Needs." ... Read on

Description: Meda Petronela Grama (Romania) Contact information Organization: Mures Bar / University of Targu Email: meda67@yahoo.co.uk Fellowship information University: Washington College of ... Read on

Description: Romanita Iordache (Romania) is a senior legal advisor to the nongovernmental organization ACCEPT and has served as an expert on the task force for the European Union program "Institutional Building in the Field of Anti-Discrimination." She also works with the Romanian U.N. ... Read on

Description: Anton Burkov (Russia) is a staff attorney and program manager with the nongovernmental organization "SUTYAJNIK" in Yekaterinburg, Russia, an organization that promotes the protection of human rights in Russia. During the second year of the fellowship program, Mr. Burkov ran a ... Read on

Description: Michail Kouzmitchev (Russia) Contact information Organization: Freedom of Conscience Society Email: michele@aha.ru Fellowship information University: Washington College of Law ... Read on

Description: Olga Shepeleva (Russia) Contact information Organization: Nizhny Novgorod Society for Human Rights Email: shepeleva@mail333.com Fellowship information University: Columbia University ... Read on

Description: Roman Javoronkov (Russia) is currently working as a lawyer with the Regional Public Organization of Disabled People Perspektiva, a nongovernmental organization in Russia that aims to protect the rights of disabled people and to provide disabled people with legal assistance. He ... Read on

Description: Nzovu Job Ruzage (Rwanda) graduated from the Rwanda National University in 1999 with an LL.B. He has published articles on the sexual harassment of Rwandan women at the workplace, and on reproductive health as a human rights concern. Having witnessed the 1994 genocide, Mr. ... Read on

Description: Souleymane Sagna (Senegal) holds an M.A. in Literature from the Dakar University Cheikh Anta Diop. A human rights activist, he has been a member of RADDHO, a local Senegalese nongovernmental organization (NGO) working for the promotion, protection, and defense of human rights ... Read on

Description: Diana Miladinovic (Serbia) completed law school in Belgrade in 1998. She is currently pursuing post-graduate studies in International Public Law. She also holds a degree in Gender Studies from the Center for Gender Studies in Belgrade. Since 2000, Ms. Miladinovic has been ... Read on

Description: Marija Lukic (Serbia and Montenegro) is a lawyer and coordinator of the Women's Policy Program at the nongovernmental organization Voice of Difference - Group for Promotion of Women's Political Rights in Belgrade, Serbia, where she works on women's political rights, monitoring ... Read on

Description: Mihajlo Colak (Serbia and Montenegro) is a legal advisor with the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Belgrade, Serbia, which works to promote the idea of the rule of law and the protection of human rights in the country. Currently, he is engaged in several projects of the ... Read on

Description: Nebojsa Vlajic (Serbia/Kosovo) plans to start his new position as a full-time consultant with the Center for Democracy and Law, an NGO that promotes democracy, rule of law and civil society values in Mitrovica, Kosovo, in September 2003. Before joining the PILI Fellows Program, ... Read on

Description: Sanja Milivojevic (Serbia and Montenegro) works as a researcher with the Victimology Society of Serbia and with the Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research, both in Belgrade. These organizations promote the rights of victims of crime, war, and human rights ... Read on

Description: Tea Gorjanc (Yugoslavia) Contact information Email: teagorjanc@yahoo.com Fellowship information University: Washinton College of Law Year: ... Read on

Description: John Bosco (Sierra Leone) Contact information Organization: Campaign for Good Governance Email: jballieu 2001@yahoo.com Fellowship information University: Central European ... Read on

Description: Mohamed L. Suma (Sierra Leone) holds a BA in History and Sociology (2002) from the University of Sierra Leone. His experiences of constant egregious abuses of human rights in the decade-long civil conflict in his country spawned his desire to join the campaign against ... Read on

Description: Paul James-Allen (Sierra Leone) holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Sierra Leone. He has been a human rights worker since 1996 during which time he co-founded Prison Watch - Sierra Leone, a local human rights nongovernmental organization working on ... Read on

Description: Valnora Edwin (Sierra Leone) is Program Manager for Human Rights Department at the Campaign for Good Governance, a Sierra Leonean nongovernmental organization, which focuses on governance, with a special emphasis on human rights, decentralization, corruption and elections. She ... Read on

Description: Dana Marekova (Slovakia) Contact information Organization: Center for Environmental Public Advocacy Email: marekova@changenet.sk Fellowship information University: Columbia ... Read on

Description: Bunafsha Gulakova (Tajikistan) Contact information Organization: Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law Email: bgulak@law.columbia.edu; sogno90@hotmail.com Fellowship information ... Read on

Description: Kalpalata Dutta (Thailand) has worked with a legal resource organization in India with the objective of promoting alternative approaches to law in the development activities of voluntary organizations. She has also worked on issues concerning women and law, engaging in ... Read on

Description: Sinan Gokcen (Turkey) has been working as a journalist for 18 years, first as a foreign news reporter covering mostly conflict and war zones, and then as a news editor. Throughout his journalism career, he has participated in several fellowships and study programs abroad on ... Read on

Description: Iryna Tustanovska (Ukraine) Contact information Organization: Ecopravo-Lviv Email: itustan@darkwing.uoregon.edu Fellowship information University: Columbia University School of ... Read on

Description: Nataliya Oliynyk (Ukraine) received her Masters in International Law from the Institute of International Relations at Taras Shevchenko Kiev State University, Ukraine. From Winter 2001 to summer 2002, she worked at a think-tank, the Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political ... Read on

Description: Gulzira Jumamuratova (Uzbekistan) worked as a staff attorney in the American Bar Association/Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative's Judicial Reform Program before joining PILI in August of 2003. Upon returning to Tashkent, she plans to start her work as a staff attorney ... Read on

Description: Sukhrob Ismoilov (Uzbekistan) received his Bachelor's degree in International Public Law at Tashkent University of World Economy and Diplomacy in 2001. His studies there were concentrated on the national legal system, international public law and human rights law. Mr. Ismoilov ... Read on