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2009 Rabat FellowsNaima DjemaiAlgeria Naima Djemai volunteers at the DJAZAIROUNA association whose mission is to combat all forms of violence against women and children who were victims of terrorism. She has been involved, at the association, in the development of projects in the area of education, citizenship, democracy and human rights. She has also participated in training programs in human rights, and has attended several workshops and platforms related to transitional justice. Ms. Djemai is a member of the support unit for victims of terrorism. Lydia NgarukoBurundi Documentary film-maker Lydia Ngaruko obtained a master’s degree in 2002 in communication and information (Cinema and Audiovisual Arts) from the University of Liège in Belgium. She worked as an independent audiovisual producer in Belgium, and is now director of the Institut Iriba in Burundi which attempts to raise public awareness regarding transitional justice mechanisms through cinema. With her basic training in communication, anthropology and sociology, she has made popular fiction films, documentaries and advertisements intended to encourage the population to adhere to the transitional justice process in Burundi. Ms. Ngaruko also teaches Film at university. Donatien NkurunzizaBurundi Colonel Nkurunzia is a trained lawyer, as well as a magistrate and teacher. After obtaining a law degree from the University of Burundi, he worked for the police and then in the public prosecutor’s office as a magistrate in training before beginning a career as a military magistrate, alternatively as an officer of the public prosecutor and a judge. He interrupted his career to continue his studies in Belgium at the Catholic University of Louvain, where he obtained a degree in specialized studies in human rights in 2003. Since his return, he has contributed to promoting justice that is fair, sound, independent and respectful of human rights. Parallel to his professional activities in the military judiciary, Colonel Nkurunziza has been active in the NGO sector and in education. In the area of education, he is a member of the teaching team at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy, and teaches public international law at the University of Lake Tanganyika. He also teaches a course in international humanitarian law at the Burundi Military Academy and goes on missions regularly as an expert and consultant for the ICRC in the area of humanitarian law. He is also an active member of a number of NGOs, including the Rotary Club and the Burundian League for Children and Young People, and also works with national and international NGOs such as Lawyers Without Borders and ACAT Burundi for the promotion of human rights. Alain TolmoCentral African Republic In 1996, Alain Tolmo obtained a master's degree in private law majoring in legal careers and became a magistrate in 2000. Since then, he has worked as a judge, president of the court of first instance, and public prosecutor of the republic. He is currently chief examining magistrate in the court of first instance in Bangui, examining magistrate in the permanent military court of the CAR, and first examining magistrate of the financial pole in the court of first instance in Bangui. In 2001, he obtained a doctoral degree in fundamental rights at the University of Nantes. In March of the same year, he participated in training sessions and international seminars on human rights and international criminal justice at the Académie internationale de Vichy in Strasbourg, The Hague Academy of International Law, the Grotius Centre in The Hague and the Legal Training Centre in Cairo. Mr. Tolmo is an active member of the Central African Observatory for Human Rights and the Central African Coalition for the International Criminal Court, and teaches human rights. Fatimé ToumléChad Since 2001, Fatimé Toumlé has been the national coordinator of the water and sanitation program at the Red Cross in Chad. She is currently working on the implementation of the program in selected areas and in particular in public primary schools. Before then, as a civil servant working for the ministry of social action and the family, her activities were focused on community development with economic interest groups in centers, women, the management of social centers and mixed or women’s associations, the supervision and evaluation of projects financed by the 6th EDF, the creation of steering committees in the framework of the program’s continuation, the follow-up of activities, and the mid-term and final review of the program. Ms. Toumlé is also vice-president of the Association des Victimes des Crimes et Répressions Politiques in Chad (AVCRP), providing assistance to the president in the daily management of the organization’s activities. At the same time, she provides support to widows and orphan girls by helping them set up women’s projects and consider activities of a feminine character, as widows represent the majority in this organization. Moise NoudjingarChad Mr. Noudjingar, magistrate by profession, is currently employed by the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) as a legal affairs adviser (NPO). He used to work as public prosecutor of the republic in the court of first instance in N’Djamena, and at the same time was the coordinator of the population and HIV/AIDS unit of the Ministry of Justice. He is a judge in the court of first instance in N’Djamena and coordinator of the urban program for children requiring special protection. Mr. Noudjingar obtained a law and legal methods degree from the Faculty of Law and Legal Methods of the University of Chad. Later, he studied human resources management at the Centre d'Etudes et de Formation pour le Développement (CEFOD) in N'Djamena, and completed a traineeship in education, training and reintegration of children requiring special protection at the Direction de l'Education Surveillée et de l'Action Sociale in Dakar, Senegal. He was admitted to the magistrature section of the legal division of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration et de Magistrature (ENAM) in N’Djamena, received advanced military training at the Ecole des officiers Interarmées (EOIA /GEMIA) in N’Djamena, and received additional training for judges’ assistants at the Ecole Régionale Supérieure de la Magistrature (E.R.SU.MA), Porto-Novo (Republic of Benin) in the framework of OHBLA. Djimrabaye BourngarChad Mr. Bourngar has been a magistrate by training and profession since 11 June 2001, and underwent military training at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration et de Magistrature (ENAM), obtaining a degree in Préparation Militaire Supérieure (PMS) and the title of reserve officer. After becoming part of the Chad magistracy in 2001, he worked as an assistant magistrate in the directorate-general of the ministry of justice from 2001 to 2003, as a judge at the court of first instance in N’Djamena from 2003 to 2004, as second assistant public prosecutor of the republic at the court of first instance in N’Djamena from December 2004 to March 2005, and as assistant public prosecutor of the republic at the court of first instance in N’Djamena from March 2004 to the end of November 2008. Since December 2008, he has been working for the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) as a judicial affairs officer (JAO). During his practice, he benefited from a grant from the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) for distance learning in fundamental rights (DUDF) with the University of Nantes, France, for the 2004-2005 academic year. Clara Angelica Garcia OrozcoColombia Clara García is currently studying law in Colombia, as well as working towards a master's degree in international relations at the Graduate Institute for International Studies (IUHEI) in Geneva, majoring in public international law. In 2003, she graduated from the Human Rights International Program at the Raoul Wallemberg Institute in Lund, Sweden, and received a certificate for the second specialized course for civil servants on the use of the Inter-American Human Rights System, issued in Costa Rica. Ms. García is in charge of the International Office of the Colombian Presidential Program on Human Rights. In a difficult context of violence, with the state tightening its control throughout the country, Ms. Garcia must ensure the follow-up and application of international decisions and recommendations with respect to human rights. These decisions and recommendations include reparative and protective measures, as well as other types of assistance provided to victims of human rights violations. In 2008, she became a member of the inter-institutional working group in charge of preparing the Universal Periodic Review of Colombia for the United Nations Human Rights Council. Godefroid MpianaDemocratic Republic of Congo Godefroid Mpiana is currently in charge of the training and capacity building program at the ICTJ office in Kinshasa. He has a degree in education, and before joining the ICTJ worked as a human rights activist for a local NGO in eastern DRC for 8 years. He has participated in several training programs in human rights (International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France) and in international crimes documentation techniques. He also participates in inquiries for communications sent to the office of the public prosecutor of the ICC, and others regarding human rights violations in eastern DRC. Mr. Mpiana directs the network of human rights NGOs in Ituri (RADHIT) and the Ituri branch of Pax Christi, and has conducted research on transitional justice in eastern DRC. He is a member of the Congolese Coalition for Transitional Justice. Charles MushiziDemocratic Republic of Congo Charles-Mugagga Mushizi is a barrister, human rights defender and journalist, as well as a member of an international press agency and of several international organizations for the promotion of the freedom of the press in Africa, including MISA (Media Institute for Southern Africa) and FAIR (Forum for African Investigative Reporters). He is active in DRC civil society, mostly giving expression to the defence and promotion of human rights in press analyses (some of which are published in his blog), conferences and cases which he defends as a barrister. Mr. Mushizi is the author of several reports of consultations with national and international organizations as well as United Nations agencies including UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), HCHR (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights), CORDAID-BAS, Institut Panos Paris, OFPRA, PREFED (Programme Régional de Formation et d’Echange pour le Développement), Carter Center Human Rights House, etc., on issues related to justice and human rights. In addition to modest political experience as adviser in the political cabinets of his country, as well as his lobbying and defence activities for the high political authorities of several countries in the Great Lakes Region, Mushizi is the author and co-author of several books, press analyses, various reports related to the state of the freedom of the press in some central African countries, as well as a mapping of serious and massive human rights violations and international crimes committed in the DRC. Mr. Mushizi obtained a law degree in 2001 from the University of Kinshasa (Campus) in the DRC, and has undergone additional training in journalism, defence of human rights defenders and inquiry methods. Bibiche SalumuDemocratic Republic of Congo Bibiche Salumu has a degree in political and administrative science and is a teacher and researcher at the University of Kisangani. She has had training (in transitional justice, among others) at national and international level in the area of human rights, and participated in the regional consultation of Pax Christi International in 2007. As a human rights defender (basic training in fundamental rights in Switzerland in 2008), she makes an important contribution to the process of materialization of women’s leadership and to the anti-establishment role which Congolese civil society must play in an environment in which the public authorities seem to have resigned. Her background enables her to promote the social justice and peace which her country depends on, considering the major challenges faced by the Democratic Republic of the Congo these past years in a context of globalization. She is currently the coordinator of a local NGO called Actions et Réalisations pour le Développement (ARED), which is based in Kisangani in the Eastern Province, and an international writer on human rights for CODAP, an organization providing support to young defenders of human rights. Foromo Frédéric LouaGuinea Mr. Foromo Frédéric Loua is founding president of the Mêmes Droits pour Tous (MDT) organization, the only Guinean non-governmental organization (NGO) which provides legal assistance to prisoners who are of age in the Maison Centrale in Conakry, the biggest prison in Guinea, as well as many other Guinean prisons. MDT also works towards reducing the prevalent use of torture during investigations. As a practicing lawyer, Mr. Loua works with Human Rights Watch on its reports on Guinea, in particular on torture and the excessive use of force by the Guinean security forces. He is an active member of the Guinean human rights commission and has collaborated with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to provide legal assistance to refugees in Guinea. He acts as legal consultant for the Agence Adventist pour le Développement International (ADRA) in Guinea and for Guinean civil society. From September 2008 to February 2009, he acted as “resident expert” for the Forum International des Etudes de Démocratie at the Fondation Nationale pour la Démocratie (NED), where he conducted research on the legal system reform and the democratization process in Guinea. Béthie CastyHaiti Béthie Casty has a law degree from the Haiti State University (1996), a degree in graduate studies in development (DES-University of Geneva/IUED, 1998) and several certificates in human rights (Strasbourg) and international law (The Hague), among others. She currently works as a legal affairs officer in the Professionalization Unit of the Justice Section of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) on the capacity building of Haitian legal stakeholders. She also provides technical support to the presidential commission responsible for the justice reform. During her professional career mainly in NGOs and international institutions (Inter-Aide, MICIVIH, UNICEF, IFES, PADF, etc.), she has worked as a consultant, adviser, coordinator and program manager in areas related to institutional reinforcement, legal assistance, public legal education, promotion of human rights, and integrated assistance provided to victims of organized violence and children who are victims of trade. She teaches civics education and peaceful conflict resolution, and has participated in research and studies on women's rights and juvenile justice, leading workshops on these subjects. Parallel to her academic training (1989-1995), she worked as a journalist and community worker, and appeared in educational films about STIs/HIV/AIDS regarding prevention and communication for changing behaviors. Ketty LuzincourtHaiti In 2000, Ketty Luzincourt began her career teaching marketing and international relations at the Centre D’études Diplomatiques et Internationales (CEDI), and education and development at the Centre de Formation et de Développement Economique (CFDE). Between 1991-2000, Ms. Luzincourt worked in the area of community development and capacity building of civil society organizations for the European Union delegation and the Lutheran World Federation representation in Haiti. In 2004, she received the Hubert H. Humphrey fellowship from the US Department of State, obtaining a specialized degree in conflict resolution and peacebuilding from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Ms. Luzincourt also has a master's degree in diplomatic science from the Académie Nationale Diplomatique et Consulaire and an advanced technical certificate in management accounting. She is currently president of the Association des Anciens Boursiers Fulbright d’Haïti (ABFHA), secretary of the Observatoire Citoyen de l’Action des Pouvoirs Publiques et Parapubliques (OCAPP), and adviser for Partners of Americas/Haiti-New Jersey, as well as being a member of Women in International Security (WIIS) at Georgetown University and the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Ketty Luzincourt is the director of the Institut Haïtien de la Paix, where she teaches alternative methods of conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Haiti. In recent years, she has participated in the implementation of conflict resolution and peacebuilding programs, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the community security project, curriculum development at the University Notre Dame of Haiti, the feasibility study for the establishment of the Chambre de Conciliation et d’Arbitrage d’Haïti (CCAH), where she also acts as arbiter, and in the drafting of documents with American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Collaborative For Development Action (CDA) and United States Institute of Peace (USIP), where she is a resident researcher, thus allowing her to examine the role of education in conflict generation in Haiti. Traore DrissaIvory Coast Traore Drissa is a lawyer at the Abidjan Court of Appeal (Bar of Ivory Coast). Since June 2007, he has also been president of the Mouvement Ivoirien des Droits Humains (MIDH), president of the board of governors of the Regroupement des Acteurs Ivoiriens des Droits Humains (RAIDH) and communication secretary of the Union Interafricaine des Droits de l’Homme (UIDH), whose headquarters are located in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He is also a member of the Commission Nationale des Droits le l’Homme de Côte d’Ivoire (CNDHCI). Mr. Drissa has participated in various seminars and training sessions in Ivory Coast and abroad and, in August 2008, organized an international conference on transitional justice in Abidjan with the MIDH. He is currently setting up a coalition for transitional justice in Ivory Coast with the MIDH. Khadijetou CheikhMauritania Khadijetou Cheikh Oudraogo has a doctoral degree in population development/environment. She is a specialist in participative approaches, gender and the evaluation of development programs. She has a bachelor’s degree in French and Arabic, a primary school teaching certificate and a secondary school teaching certificate (CAPES) in social science (philosophy/sociology). In 1993-1994, she began her post-graduate training at the Centre International de Formation et de Recherche en Population et Développement in association with the United Nations (CIDEP) at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium where she obtained a doctoral degree in population and development with honors. In 1998-1999, she began studying at the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, Department of Population and Development Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain. She graduated with a degree in advanced studies in development/population/environment with high honors. Ms. Cheikh is an independent consultant who has participated in several missions and studies in the area of development in Mauritania and in the sub-region. She has been involved in several socio-professional activities: general rapporteur for several conferences and workshops, and teacher of female political leadership and gender. She is also a contributor and author of several research works and prospective studies. She is an active human rights militant, and is currently the coordinator of an initiative gathering women from all ethnic groups in Mauritania and militants in favor of peace, unity and national concord, called Initiative Femme, Paix, Unité et Concorde Nationale (IFPUCN). Hassane MadigouhNiger Hassane Madigouh Kanembou is from Bilma in the northeast of the country, and studied law at the University of Niamey. After obtaining a master's degree in 2000, he was admitted to the magistrates competitive examination to be trained at the center in Dakar, Senegal. When he obtained his degree and returned to his country, he became part of the magistrature in 2003 and was appointed judge in the court of Agadez. After four years of practice during a period of insecurity due to the Tuareg rebellion, he was appointed president of a regional court in Loga and then assistant public prosecutor in Niamey. Throughout his career, Mr. Madigouh has worked in associations and NGOs promoting compliance with the law and local development, which he finds essential due to the extreme poverty in Niger. Alphonse MuleefuRwanda After completing his law degree at the National University of Rwanda in 2004, Mr. Muleefu took short courses in international criminal law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and worked as a trainee at the Institute of International Criminal Investigations (IICI) in The Hague. He also worked as a Legal Researcher at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and as a Legal Intern at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He has participated in and spoken at many national and international conferences and workshops on human rights and international justice. Mr. Muleefu is currently working as a lawyer at the Service National des Juridictions Gacaca and is the founding president of an NGO (Together Against Impunity in the Great Lakes Region – TAI/GLR), which promotes the rights of victims, international criminal law and humanitarian law. His research focuses on international criminal law, Gacaca, international humanitarian law and the rights of victims of crime in procedures. Eucher Ekouévi Eklu-KoevanuTogo Eucher Ekouévi Eklu-Koevanu has a diploma of advanced studies (DEA) in law, and has been in charge of the human rights unit at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Togo (HCHR-Togo) since January 2007. Mr. Eklu-Koevanu used to teach public law and international relations in the Faculty of Law at the University of Lomé, and was a researcher at the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) before becoming a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to work on the elaboration and implementation of many projects aimed at reinforcing democracy and the rule of law in his country which, for so long, had been marked by human rights violations. Mr. Eklu-Koevanu was a member of the editorial team for the Togolese government's action plan for the repatriation of Togolese refugees in Benin and Ghana, and of the inter-agency project for the promotion of civil-military relations in Togo. He also participated in the national consultations in support of the truth, justice and reconciliation process initiated by the government in April 2008 with the support of the HCHR. Mr. Eucher Ekouévi Eklu-Koevanu currently works in the Transitional Justice unit of HCHR-Togo. Dr Senyéebia Yawo KakpoTogo Dr Kakpo has a degree in theology and a doctoral degree in political science (international relations), as well as several advanced diplomas in international law. He is a professor of international law and international relations at the universities of Lomé and Kara, as well as at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration de Lomé. Since 1999, Dr Kakpo has focused on issues related to fundamental rights and social justice. He has worked in Europe with Christian and non-religious movements and organizations, especially with programs for the promotion of human rights and the culture of non-violence and peace. He returned to Togo at the end of 2004, and in addition to his academic activities, he coordinates human rights, justice and peace programs and teaches conflict management and mediation to social promotion agents for civil society organizations and grassroots communities. He is part of a team appointed by the Togolese government in the framework of a national reconciliation pre-forum being prepared by the government following the painful events experienced by the country (February-June 2005). The team’s objective is to find a better approach to establishing a balance between the demands of criminal justice and restorative justice for reconciliation between the people of Togo. Dr Kapko is a militant in several associations and movements for the protection and promotion of human rights and the culture of peace at national and international level, and was able to participate in the training for transitional justice instructors organized by the ICTJ in Brussels in December 2005. He is a researcher at the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations at The Hague Academy of International Law, and is a member of the board of directors of the UN International Decade for the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence (Paris). Kapande NyamaTogo Mr. Nyama Kpande-Adzare (“Raphael”_ was born in Agu-Avétonou, Togo, on 31 December 1977. After his primary and secondary studies followed by an A4 series advanced level diploma in philosophy at the Lycée de Sotouboua, he obtained a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in law (public law) from the University of Lomé. In 2002, he obtained a diploma of advanced studies at the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Cotonou, Benin, on the theme of the criminal liability of heads of state. When he returned to his country in 2004, he worked as a law teacher for the Collège Saint Joseph School Group. In 2006, he obtained a certificate of aptitude for the legal profession and took his oath of office in May 2007. As an ardent defender of human rights, he is a militant in several NGOs whose main objectives are the promotion, protection and defence of human rights, and is currently president of the Togolese Human Rights League. Oula Ben NejmaTunisia Ms. Oula Ben Nejma is a lawyer registered with the National Order of Tunisian Lawyers. She studied private, economic and international law. During her studies, Ms. Ben Nejma participated in the students’ union, which plays a major role in the defence of students’ and social interests in Tunisia. She also participated actively in the Observatoire des Relations Internationales, du Développement et de la Francophonie in France, which deals with problems encountered by developing countries at economic and political level. When she became a member of the bar, she defended people under political investigation and collaborated with Tunisian organizations which were not recognized by the government, as well as with international NGOs such as Amnesty International ¬– as an active member of the commission of Tunisian lawyers – and Human Rights Watch, interpreting political cases and examining cases of prisoners who have been victims of torture, isolation, intimidation and other human rights violations. |
