David leads IRRI’s Sudan Programme which focuses on enhancing, defending and promoting human rights in Sudan, particularly in the country’s conflict areas. The programme focusses particularly on strengthening capacities of local civil society to monitor and document human rights violations. It also conducts awareness raising among communities on their human rights so that they are…
Bronwen Manby is an independent consultant and visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics Centre for the Study of Human Rights. She previously worked for the Open Society Foundations and Human Rights Watch. She has written extensively on statelessness and the right to a nationality in Africa, and leads the development of the…
Tigranna Zakaryan began her work in Uganda as a US Fulbright Scholar in which she researched the flight histories of settlement-based Congolese refugees through an ethnographic lens in order to inform the challenges they face in establishing socioeconomic livelihoods and integration in Uganda. She worked with host communities and local government structures to gauge their perspectives on…
Nejla has an LLM in International Human Rights Law from University College Cork, Ireland, where she examined EU efforts to provide protection to asylum seekers in the aftermath of revolutions in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Syria, while simultaneously preventing the arrival of irregular migrants. She has written on the rights of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, in particular in North Africa,…
Taylor is a PhD Candidate in the Media, Communications and Sociology Department at the University of Leicester. The central focus of her research involves understanding the current nationalist and nativist sentiment surrounding undocumented immigration, the border wall and deportations in the United States. Taylor completed an MSc in International Development (Poverty, Inequality and Development) in…