Legal Empowerment Leadership Course in Budapest Is a Unique

YEAR 5 1–6 December 2019

l Legal Empowerment Budapest, Hungary Leadership Course

Participants’ Booklet

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Table of Contents Dear participants,

Around the world, more than ﬁ ve billion people—two-thirds of the world’s population—are living outside the protection of the law and lack meaningful access to justice. They are unfairly driven from their land, denied essential services, excluded from society, and intimidated by violence. Welcome Legal empowerment is about turning that tide. It’s about enabling people to understand, use, and shape the law. From at least the 1950s, when community paralegals in South Africa began helping people to navigate and resist apartheid, legal empowerment has grown into a global movement. Today, grassroots legal advocates in the Philippines are helping farmers to take part in nationwide agrarian reforms. In Argentina, shantytown residents are pursuing legal remedies to bring clean water and other essential services to their communities.

World leaders increasingly agree that access to justice and legal empowerment are crucial to ensuring equitable and inclusive development, a

2 sentiment that led to the integration of justice in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Every year the legal empowerment ﬁ eld becomes more robust, with greater evidence of what works. At this particular moment in history, with the rise of authoritarianism and income inequality, there is an urgent need to strengthen and expand legal empowerment programs.

The Legal Empowerment Leadership Course in Budapest is a unique

opportunity to take stock of our collective knowledge and build upon it. Welcome Its aim is to cultivate a global cadre of leaders who are committed to legal empowerment, and who share a common understanding of the ﬁ eld, including history, methodology, and evidence. A faculty of respected practitioners and academics lead course participants in an in-depth exploration of key themes, including the conceptual framework of legal empowerment, community organizing and social movements, and the role of grassroots legal advocates in realizing systemic change. The participatory nature of the course also emphasizes peer-to-peer learning through small group work.

The 5th edition of the annual course will have a special focus on gender equality and environmental justice. The course is a collaboration between the CEU’s School of Public Policy (SPP), the Open Society Justice Initiative, Namati, and the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at New York University School of Law.

WE WISH YOU AN EXCITING TIME IN BUDAPEST AT THE CEU SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY!

Vivek Marlon Sukti

Zaza Livia 3 METHODOLOGY

The course is structured to nurture and deepen participants’ knowledge of legal empowerment, offering a space of reﬂ ection to strengthen their methodology and impact. Participants identify a concrete challenge, growth opportunity or research question before the course, and then develop an action plan during the course with the help of co-participants and faculty. The course is organized as follows:

The Course 1 . PREPARATORY WORK Participants review selected readings in advance of the course. They also prepare and submit one of the following: a) a problem statement, describing a challenge area or inquiry facing them in their work, or b) a proposal for research or action that they wish to workshop throughout the course and beyond.

2. IN-PERSON PARTICIPATION The course requires in-person attendance at Central European University over ﬁ ve days, from December 1st (afternoon) through the 6th.

4 3. PARTICIPATORY CURRICULUM The course relies on extensive participation from participants and combines four types of sessions: case studies, cross-cutting sessions, skills-building modules and small working group discussions.

Case studies The course features a comparative exploration of common themes across three case studies. Themes include legal empowerment

methods; training, supervision of frontline staff; learning and The Course evaluation; use of organizing, media and communications; ﬁ nan- cial sustainability; and role of grassroots advocates in realizing systemic change. Case study topics include: The paralegal movement in the Philippines. How the movement of community-based paralegals have adapted and innovated over the decades, to bring about large-scale change in the Philippines. Legal empowerment, land and environmental justice. This session focuses on legal empowerment programs that work with communities for the defense of land rights and the pursuit of environmental justice.

5 Legal empowerment and gender equality. How women-led organizations comprised of grassroots advocates, lawyers, and activists have adopted legal empowerment strategies to advance women’s rights and gender equality advocacy.

Cross-cutting sessions Cross-cutting sessions address foundational challenges and questions faced by the legal empowerment community.

The Course Session I: Introduction to legal empowerment. This introductory session explores what we mean by legal empowerment. It addresses basic concepts, history, and philosophy. The session offers a vocabulary and a set of questions that are referenced throughout the course. Session II: Legal empowerment, organizing and social movements. This session explores how legal empowerment groups combine strategic litigation and legal services with community organizing, and how paralegals and legal empowerment practitioners constitute an essential part of social movements. Session III: Community-driven data collection and analysis for advocacy. This session examines how grassroots advocates, lawyers, and activists have designed community-led data collection projects to defi ne and generate data that refl ects their realities, and how this data is essential to human rights advocacy. Session IV: Paralegal recognition, regulation and sustainability. This session examines advantages and disadvantages of government recognition, regulation and public and non-public fi nancing of the work of paralegals based on policies and experiences of different countries.

Skills building modules Modules include power mapping, innovative ﬁ nancing, monitoring and evaluation, and popular education techniques.

6 The Course

Small working group discussions Each afternoon, participants come together in small groups to apply the day’s lessons to their individual challenge or research question. Experts and instructors are available during this time for consultation and support in developing their action plan.

4. POST-COURSE After the course, each participant submits their ﬁ nal reﬂ ections on their problem statement, or a revised version of their proposal. In either case, candidates should detail a course of action for acting on, or exploring further, what has been learned over the last few days. Faculty and experts will provide follow-up support. All participants also become members of the Global Legal Empowerment Network in advance of the course and remain in contact through our online community discussion forum. There, you can pose questions and support others with their action plans to ensure that our cohort of learners remain engaged in future efforts to strengthen their work.

7 Lunch (continued) presentation presentation Participants’ Coffee break Participants’ (9:15–10:45) (10:45–11:00) (12:30–13:30) (11:00–12:30) Closing and evauation The Course Lunch Session IV (continued) Denise Dora Denise Dora Michael Otto Coffee break sustainability Case study III (9:45–10:45) Case study III: regulation and Nancy Sesay / (13:00–14:30) (10:45–11:00) (11:00–12:00) (12:00–13:00) Matthew Burnett / Zaza Namoradze / LE & gender equality Paralegal recognition, Thursday, 5 DecemberThursday, 6 December Friday, set 1 Lunch sessions) Vivek Maru Vivek Maru (continued) Case study II Coffee break Case study II: (9:45–10:45) Skills session LE and land & (Simultaneous (13:00–14:30) (10:45–11:00) (11:00–12:00) (12:00–13:00) environmental justice Wednesday, 4 December Wednesday, Lunch Session III Philippines Ice breaker Ice breaker Ice breaker (continued) Case study I for advocacy Case study I: Coffee break / Sukti Dhital (9:45–10:45) The paralegal (13:00–14:30) (10:45–11:00) (11:00–12:00) (12:00–13:00) Marlon Manuel Marlon Manuel movement in the Review & day 2 aims Review & day 3 aims Review & day 4 aims Review & day 5 aims Community-driven data Margaret Satterthwaite collection and analysis Lunch Session I Session I Session II movements Gicola Lane Ice breaker (continued)

Vivek Maru / Vivek Maru / Coffee break (9:45–10:45) empowerment (13:00–14:30) (10:45–11:00) (11:00–12:00) (12:00–13:00) Marlon Manuel Marlon Manuel Preliminary session/ Legal empowerment, organizing and social Conceptual framework —Introduction to legal Sunday, 1 DecemberSunday, 2 December Monday, 3 December Tuesday, 09:00 09:15 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 13:00 13:15 13:30 13:45 14:00 14:15 SCHEDULE 8 Break (continued) (13:30–16:00) Farewell reception Closing and evauation The Course The Course set 2 Wrap up sessions) Coffee break Skills session (simultaneous (14:45–16:15) (16:15–17:30) (14:30–14:45) Working groups Working day presentation —Preparation for next Thursday, 5 DecemberThursday, 6 December Friday, questions Coffee break (14:45–16:45) (14:30–14:45) Working groups Working and participants’ problem statements/ on the day’s sessions on the day’s —Discussion/refl ection —Discussion/refl Wednesday, 4 December Wednesday, Wrap up Wrap up questions Coffee break (14:45–16:45) (14:30–14:45) Working groups Working and participants’ problem statements/ on the day’s sessions sessions on the day’s —Discussion/refl ection —Discussion/refl Wrap up Coffee break (14:45–15:45 (15:45–17:15) (14:30–14:45) Working groups Working groups Working statements/questions on the day’s sessions on the day’s —Discussion/refl ection —Discussion/refl —Participants’ problem Introduction & Participants’ (17:30–19:00) Course Overview Opening Program, Welcome reception Welcome Sunday, 1 DecemberSunday, 2 December Monday, 3 December Tuesday, 14:30 14:45 15:00 15:15 15:30 15:45 16:00 16:15 16:30 16:45 17:00 17:15 17:30 17:45 18:00 18:15 18:30 18:45 19:00 19:15 19:30 9 PARTICIPANTS’ PROFILE

The course is intended for people whose work and interests are directly related to legal empowerment. This includes:

• exceptional paralegals and leaders of civil society and community organizations who are running, or wish to run, legal empowerment programs;

• parliamentary leaders and government ofﬁ cials (ministries of justice

The Course or development, centralized planning units, NHRIs) with the power to support or regulate legal empowerment efforts;

• development agency representatives working on legal empowerment at an international or country level;

• academics and researchers interested in working with legal empowerment programs.

PRE-COURSE READINGS

You have been given access to an e-learning site that contains all pre- course readings. They will give us a common foundation; we will be referencing them during the course. You can ﬁ nd them here: https://community.namati.org/c/leadership2019.

10 ARRIVAL

The taxi company serving Liszt Fe- renc International Airport is Fo˝taxi. Reservations are made in person outside the exit of the terminal. The fare to the city center will not Program exceed 8,000 HUF (25 EUR).

There is also an airport shuttle which costs around 4,900 HUF (17.50 EUR) to the city center. You can order a shuttle to your hotel at the Airport Shuttle stand at Arrivals. The shuttle will probably take slightly longer than a taxi as it is shared with other people.

The most economical solution is the bus 100E operated by the public transportation company, BKK. You can purchase the ticket from the ticket machines at the airport, or from the driver. It runs every 30 minutes and one ticket costs 900 HUF ( 2,7 EUR ) – one way only. It stops at Airport – Kálvin tér – Astoria – Deák Ferenc tér. It runs both ways (https://bkk. hu/en/airport-shuttle-bus-single-ticket/).

11 WELCOME RECEPTION

The course will start on Sunday, 1 December at 17:30 at the ground ﬂ oor of CEU’s School of Public Policy in Október Hall. There will be a dinner reception at 19:30 at Akademia Italia. We will walk to the dinner reception together. Akademia Italia is located just three minutes walking distance from SPP. Program

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY Október Hall Október 6 Street 7 1051 Budapest

DINNER VENUE: Akademia Italia Szent István tér 12 1051 Budapest Tel: (+36 1) 301 0563

From the CEU School of Public Policy to Akademia Italia

12 FAREWELL RECEPTION

You are invited to join us for farewell dinner at La Fabbrica on Friday, 6 December, starting at 18:00. La Fabbrica is located just two minutes walking distance from SPP. Program

DINNER VENUE: La Fabbrica Sas utca 8, 1051Budapest Tel: (+36) 30 173 9866

From the CEU School of Public Policy to La Fabbrica

13 COURSE VENUE

The course will take place on the ground ﬂ oor of CEU’s School of Public Policy in Október Hall.

Except for the Opening Session on Sunday, sessions will begin at 9:00 am; please arrive at the CEU School of Public Policy at 8:45 am to register.

VENUE:

Logistical Information School of Public Policy, Október Hall Október 6 utca 7, H–1051 Budapest

MEALS

Coffee breaks and lunches will be served on the ﬁ rst ﬂ oor of the building where the course takes place.

14 EATING OUT

There are many places that are close to CEU/SPP where you can have dinner. The list below is not exhaustive, so we encourage you to explore the neighborhood. Restaurants marked with an * offer vegetarian dishes. Bamba Burger* Október 6. utca 6 l open 11:30–23:00 Hummus Bar* Október 6. utca 19 l open 10:00 (12:00 on Sun & Sat)–22:00 Istanbul Kebab Október 6. utca 22 l open 08:00–05:00 La Trattoria Október 6. utca 13 l open 11:00–23:00 Padthai Wokbar* Október 6. utca 4 l open 11:00–23:00 Rétesház (Strudel House)* Október 6. utca 22 l open 9:00–23:00 Logistical Information Soup Culture* Október 6. utca 19 l open 11:00–19:00, closed on Sundays Perfetto Italian Kitchen* Október 6. utca 8 l open 11:30–22:30

15 SMOKING

Smoking is strictly prohibited within ﬁ ve meters of all building entrances.

INTERNET, WiFi AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Wi-Fi is available on campus. • Network name: CEU Guest • Password: Budapest1991 European plugs (220V) are available at CEU.

If you wish to tweet about the workshop, please use the handle @sppgpa. The hashtag is #legalempowerment.

Logistical Information MEDICAL CARE

The CEU Medical Center is open to participants with valid medical insurance. There are four qualiﬁ ed English-speaking doctors (male and female) who hold regular consultation hours.

CEU Medical Center Nádor utca 9, Mezzanine Floor Tel.: (+36 1) 327 3815 https://www.ceu.edu/studentlife/onlineorientation/medical-center

WEATHER AND CLOTHING

December is one of the coldest months of the year in Budapest. During this month, expect very cold weather conditions and a frosty biting wind. Snowfall is frequent but not that heavy. The days are shortest and the nights are longest at this time. The average daily temperature in December is no more than 1°C. Except for the welcome reception (smart casual), dress code for the course is casual. 16 PERSONAL SAFETY AND SECURITY

Budapest is a safe city but as with other popular tourist destinations you need to be vigilant. There are two risks that we want to alert you to:

• Do not hail a cab on the street; call a cab. A reliable company is CITY TAXI, at +36 1 211 1111. Make sure the meter is set at the pickup rate of 700 HUF before you begin any journey.

• Shops, bars, and restaurants may give the wrong change as a result of frequent visitor confusion over the multiple zeros in the currency.

The Danube with the Chain Bridge Logistical Information

Buda Castle The Parliament

17 A NOTE ON HUNGARY

Capital city: Budapest

Population: ~ 9.9 million

Population of Budapest ~ 1.7 million (city) ~ 3.3 million (including periphery)

Language: Hungarian

Religion 54.5% Catholic, 19.5% Protestant, 0.2% other Christians, 0.1% orthodox Christian, 0.1% Judaism, 0.1% other.

Electric plug details: European plug (220V) with two circular metal pins

Country dialing code Hungary: 0036 or +36 (00361 or +361 – for Budapest) Logistical Information To dial Hungarian numbers from Hungary you can dial: 06 + 1 xxx xxxx (Budapest), or for cellular phone: 06 + 2/3/7 + 0 + xxx xxxx.

Money The Hungarian currency is the forint (HUF). 1 EUR = 333 HUF, 1 USD = 302 HUF You usually CANNOT pay in Euro or US dollars. You can exchange money at the airport or train stations, but change as little as possible there since exchange rates at these locations are bad. It is preferable to use one of the many ATMs or cash points across the city.

Public Transport Budapest has an excellent public transit system consisting of subways, buses, trolleys, trams, and electric commuter trains called HÉV. Tickets are available at all metro stations from automated machines, and most stations also have cashiers at ticket windows. As the machines aren’t always reliable, it is preferable to buy tickets directly from the cashier. Tickets can also be bought at some newsstands, tram stops, and on some buses, but it is best to purchase tickets at the metro station and keep a supply with you. Tickets can be bought individually, discounted in books of 10, or in 18 the form of daily, weekly, or monthly passes. You need to validate your ticket before starting your trip on the metro or immediately upon boarding a bus, tram, trolley, or commuter train. Insert the ticket into the machines at metro station entrances and in the red or yellow boxes on trams, buses, and trolleys. The yellow boxes automatically stamp the ticket, but you must pull the black lever on the red boxes towards the ticket to punch it. Tickets are valid for 60 minutes after they have been stamped or for 90 minutes on the night service. Passes and tickets are checked by inspectors at random and you will be ﬁ ned HUF 8,000 on the spot if you cannot produce your pass or validated ticket. If ﬁ ned, get a receipt, as foreigners are sometimes overcharged. Public transportation runs from 4:30 until 23:00 and is both regular and frequent. Night trams and buses run on an abbreviated schedule.

METRO AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY LINES Logistical Information

19 USEFUL HUNGARIAN PHRASES

English Hungarian Pronounciation Yes/No Igen/nem igen/nem Thank you Köszönöm Kurssurnurm Hello Jó napot Yow nopot Goodbye Viszontlátásra Vissont-latashruh Please Kérem szépen Kherem sehpen Do you speak English? Beszél angolul? Bessayl ungolool? I can’t speak Hungarian Nem beszélek magyarul Nem besseylek mud-yarool Entrance Bejárat Beh-yarut Exit Kijárat Ki-yarut I’m sorry Elnézést Ellnezeysht Toilet WC Vaytsay Logistical Information

20 COURSE COORDINATORS

Livia MARSCHALL Mobile: +36 30 629 1807 Email: [email protected]

Nóra TIBOLD Mobile: +36 30 435 8031 Email: [email protected] Logistical Information

Michael OTTO Mobile: +1 908 399 7477 Email: [email protected]

21 COURSE DIRECTORS

Vivek MARU

Vivek founded Namati in 2011 to grow the movement for legal empowerment around the world. Namati and its partners have built cadres of community legal workers—sometimes known as “barefoot lawyers”—in ten countries. The advocates have worked with over 65,000 people to protect community

Biographies lands, enforce environmental law, and secure basic rights to healthcare and citizenship. Namati convenes the Global Legal Empowerment Network, more than 1,000 groups from 150 countries who are learning from one another and collaborating on common challenges. This community successfully advocated for the inclusion of access to justice in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

From 2003 to 2007, Vivek co-founded and co-directed the Sierra Leonean organization Timap for Justice, which has been recognized by the International Crisis Group, Transparency International, and President Jimmy Carter as a pioneering model for delivering justice services in the context of a weak state and a plural legal system. From 2008 to 2011, he served as senior counsel in the Justice Reform Group of the World Bank. His work focused on rule of law reform and governance, primarily in West Africa and South Asia. In 1997–1998 he lived in a hut of dung and sticks in a village in Kutch, his native place, working on watershed management and girls’ education with two grassroots development organizations—Sahjeevan and Kutch Mahila Vikas Sanghathan. Vivek graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and Yale Law School. He writes regularly in academic journals and in the press. He also directs the Legal Empowerment Leadership Course at Central European University and New York University School of Law.

Vivek serves on the board of trustees of the global advocacy organization Avaaz, the international advisory council of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, the advisory board of the evaluation ﬁ rm ID Insight, and the boards of the Constitu- tional Accountability Center and the International Senior Lawyers Project. He was an afﬁ liate expert with the UN Commission on Legal Empowerment and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Vivek received the Pioneer Award from the North American South Asian Bar Association in 2008. He was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2014 and a “legal rebel” by the American Bar Association in 2015. He, Namati, and the Global Legal Empowerment Network received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2016. In 2017, the Schwab Foundation named Vivek and Sonkita Conteh, director of Namati–Sierra Leone, two of its Social Entrepreneurs of the Year. Vivek studies capoeira angola with Dale Marcelin at Universal Capoeira Angola Center. 22 Marlon J. MANUEL

As Namati’s senior adviser to the Global Legal Empowerment Network, Marlon has more than two decades of experience in legal empowerment work, having devoted practically his entire career to social justice and human rights lawyering. He has combined grassroots education activities with active involvement in strategic litigation on human rights and public interest issues, policy reform work on social justice legislation, and justice system reform programs on improving access to justice. From 2008–2017, he was the

Coordinator of the Alternative Law Groups (ALG), a coalition of twenty (20) legal Biographies resource NGOs in the Philippines with distinct programs that are primarily concerned with the pursuit of public interest, respect for human rights, and promotion of social justice. Marlon is deeply involved in justice and human rights education, not only as a law school professor, but also as a grassroots community educator, continuously practicing and advocating the principles of education for people empowerment as he work with farmers, workers, and other vulnerable groups. He is a professor at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, where he received his JD in 1994. He received his BSc degree in Management (Major in Legal Management) from the College of Arts and Sciences of the same university.

The 2018 Legal Empowerment Leadership Course participants

23 FACULTY

Matthew BURNETT

Matthew is a Policy Ofﬁ cer with the Open Society Justice Initiative, where he focuses on legal empowerment, technology and innovative ﬁ nancing. Previously, he was director of the Immigration Advocates Network, a groundbreaking collaboration among leading immigrant rights organizations in the United Biographies States. He played a key role in launching the organization and growing it into a recognized leader on innovative approaches to increasing access to justice for immigrants and building the capacity of immigrant-serving organizations. Prior to his work at the Immigration Advocates Network, Matthew represented asylum seekers in the United States and served as law clerk to Justice Z.M. Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He holds a JD with concentrations in poverty law and public international law, and a joint BA in philosophy and the comparative history of ideas.

Sukti DHITAL

Sukti is a human rights lawyer and the Deputy Director of the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU School of Law, an academic center committed to the advancement of legal empowerment through innovative research, eduction, and advocacy. Previously, she was the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Nazdeek, an award-winning legal empowerment organization committed to bringing access to justice closer to marginalized communities in India. She worked closely with affected community members and social movements to advance human rights through a community-driven approach, with a focus on indigenous and Dalit women. Prior to Nazdeek, Sukti was the Director of the Reproductive Rights Unit at the Human Rights Law Network, India where she assisted in securing landmark social and economic rights judgments including Laxmi Mandal v. Deen Dayal Harinagar Hospital & ORS, W.P.(C) 8853/2008, the ﬁ rst decision by a national court to recognize maternal mortality as a human rights violation. Sukti has also worked at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project and the ﬁ rm of Bingham McCutchen LLP.

24 Denise DORA

Denise is a lawyer and human rights activist with more than 25 years of experience in areas of gender and access to justice. She is the founding member of THEMIS–Gender Justice and Human Rights, a feminist organization that develops legal empowerment programs for women community leaderships since 1993. Denise holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex, and an MA in History and Politics from Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. She worked for the Ford Foundation as a senior program officer responsible for the Human Rights Program in Brazil from Biographies 2000 to 2011, and has served on the Advisory Committee of UN Women in Brazil and Latin America and Caribbean. Currently, Denise is a senior partner of Dora, Azambuja & Oliveira, a law firm specialized in civil society legislation, discrimination and human rights as well as a board member of Conectas Human Rights and Land of Rights. Recently, she joined Article 19 as director for South America.

Gicola LANE

Gicola is a Black, Southern community organizer and budding political strategist from the East Side of Nashville, Tennessee. She started organizing at fourteen years old, before she even knew what organizing was, and has led campaigns around the issues of predatory lending, police accountability, ending money bail, voting rights restoration, and the criminalization of poverty. She currently serves as the statewide organizer for Free Hearts, a non-profit led by formerly incarcerated women helping to support, educate, and advocate for families impacted by incarceration. Gicola is focused on building statewide power in TN with a concentration on base building with communities and voters who are traditionally and intentionally left out of the legal and political process. Gicola has also co-led Participatory Defense Nashville since January 2016, where she regularly organizes with families and community members who are facing incarceration in order to transform the landscape of power in the courtroom. Gicola carries the vulnerable and unheard stories of injustice with her daily to fight for change. She is passionate about getting free, and has a deep love for community.

25 Zaza NAMORADZE

As the Director of the Open Society Justice Initiative’s Berlin ofﬁ ce, Zaza oversees activities on legal aid and defendants’ rights and legal empowerment and capacity. He previously served as staff attorney and, later, deputy director of the Open Society Institute’s Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute, where he designed and oversaw projects in constitutional and judicial reforms and student law clinics and human rights litigation capacity building in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Zaza has worked for the Center for

Biographies the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe, the Central Electoral Commission of Georgia, and was a member of the State Constitutional Commission of Georgia. He graduated from the Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University, studied in the Comparative Constitutionalism Program of the Central European University, and earned an LLM from the University of Chicago Law School.

Yevgen POLTENKO

Yevgen is executive director at the Legal Development Network (LDN). LDN is one of the major non-governmental legal aid providers, funded by local municipalities and donors in 15 out of 25 Ukrainian regions. The Network which unites 25 local member organizations provides legal aid to individuals as well as legal support to communities in shaping their policies. Before joining LDN, Yevgen worked for charities, financial companies, and government institutions. Yevgen’s professional interests also include civil society, access to justice and safe community initiatives. In 2004, he obtained an MA in International Economy at Kharkiv National University and in 2017, an MA in Nonprofit Management at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.

Margaret L. SATTERTHWAITE

Margaret is a Professor of Clinical Law, Faculty Director of the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, and Co-Chair of the Center for Human Rights and the Global Justice at New York University School of Law. Her research interests include economic and social rights, human rights and counterterrorism, methodological innovation in human rights, and vica-

26 rious trauma among human rights workers. Before joining the academy, she worked for a number of human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and the Commission Nationale de Verité et de Justice in Haiti. As Director of the Global Justice Clinic, she partners with grassroots organizations and movements to prevent, challenge, and redress rights violations in situations of global inequality. Margaret has worked as a consultant to numerous UN agencies and special rapporteurs and has served on the boards of several human rights organizations.

Nancy SESAY Biographies Nancy is the program coordinator of Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. She led the development of the legal empowerment strategy for Sierra Leone and heads the legal empowerment work within OSIWA. She reviews and supports the development of projects; manages, monitors, and evaluates projects under Sierra Leone’s grant portfolio. Nancy has experience working with rural communities, paralegals, women and children. She has a background in clinical legal education and has worked extensively with law students on access to justice issues. Prior to joining OSIWA, she worked as deputy director of Timap for Justice, an NGO that pioneered the use of paralegals as frontline workers to provide community-based justice services. Her responsibilities included training, supervising and supporting the work of paralegals, as well as litigating cases that emerged from the work of paralegals. Nancy holds LLM in Human Rights from the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

27 PARTICIPANTS

Marwan ABU FRIEH Adalah l Israel

Marwan is a social activist and law student at the College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan. He is also Adalah’s branch coordinator in the Naqab. Marwan conducts ﬁ eldwork in the unrecognized Bedouin villages to solve the problems facing Biographies the Bedouin: he provides legal, educational and social aid to defend the local community. Moreover, Adalah is empowering the Bedouin community to stay on their land and not be expelled by the Israeli government. Through his organized tours of the Naqab to international students, NGOs and local universities, Marwan continues to tell the history of the Bedouin and raises awareness about the issues facing this community. Before working for Adalah, Marwan studied Business & Management and was the editor-in-chief of a local newspaper in the Naqab. Marwan hopes to continue his education in Europe and acquire the necessary tools to support his community in the Naqab.

Mahbuba AKHTER Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) l Bangladesh

Mahbuba works as deputy director of Advocacy and Commu- nication at Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), the largest legal aid organization in Bangladesh. She is tasked with developing organizational policies related to advocacy activities. She also works with different stakeholders, including lawmakers, lawyers, actors in the justice sector, ministries and various government authorities to help enact and implement laws and policies. Mahbuba also deals with government authorities in order to effectively implement the directives issued by the Supreme Court in various public interest litigation (PIL) cases. She has work experience of more than 21 years in this ﬁ eld. Previously, she worked as a journalist and academic.

28 Joseph Sahr ANSUMANA Network Movement for Justice and Development l Sierra Leone

Joseph graduated from Bunumbu Teachers College with a Teacher’s Certiﬁ cate specializing in Music and Practical Arts. When the war intensiﬁ ed in the eastern part of Sierra Leone, he and his family were forced to move to neighboring Guinea where he worked for the Catholic Mission for Refugees as a catechistic coordinator. In 1999, he was offered a scholarship to study at All Hallows College, Dublin City

University in Ireland, where he obtained a Higher Diploma in Holistic Development Biographies and an MA in Leadership and Pastoral Care. Currently, he works as a program manager for the Network Movement for Justice and Development, a human rights-oriented civil society organization.

Elizabeth ATEMNKENG International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Cameroon l Cameroon

Elizabeth has been a lawyer for nearly 20 years, helping clients access the justice system and providing legal advice. She has represented victims of VAW/G in courts, provided pro bono services to communities and empowered many. She is passionate about women’s rights and is a member of several NGOs and professional associations that guarantee the promotion and protection of women’s rights. As vice president of FIDA Cameroon, she has handled rights violation cases and empowered women and children by educating them on ways of tackling these violations. In 2008, she was selected for the Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) Fellowship program at Georgetown University Law; she graduated with an MA in International Legal Studies and obtained a Certiﬁ cate in International Human Rights Law. She is also founder of Atemnkeng and Associates’ Law Firm.

Aye Aye AUNG Namati l Myanmar

Aye Aye used to be a governance program offi cer with Oxfam in Myanmar between 2015 and 2017. In 2014, she served as a coach at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Germany) promoting the SIM Democracy game. She has been active in 29 the fi eld of women’s rights, land governance, human rights and social economic justice working together with affected communities and other key stakeholders. She helped disseminate the research fi ndings of the Oxfam’s study “Responsible invest- ment in Myanmar: Lessons from experiences of SEZ developments.” She holds a BA in English from Kalay University and a diploma in Community Leadership and Social Studies from the Thabyay Education Foundation. She is currently a program offi cer at Namati in Myanmar.

Taib Abdulrahman BASHEEIB

Biographies Reachout Centre Trust l Kenya

Taib has over 15 years’ experience working on drug dependency treatment and harm reduction. He is the executive director of Reachout Centre Trust, an organization launched in 2003 in Kenya. He is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Public Health and is actively pushing for progressive drug policies and universal health access for key populations in the country. Taib is also a certiﬁ ed ad- diction counselor with NADAAC. His efforts in implementing prevention, treatment and support of people who use drugs have positively impacted the health and lives of key populations in the country. He serves as secretary in the Kenya Harm Reduction Network, and has gained experience in human rights through propagating for progressive drug policies, access to universal health care, community and media engagement on harm reduction and reducing the harmful effects of drug use and HIV/AIDS.

Fae Marie BORDEY Alternative Law Groups, Inc. (ALG) l Philippines

Fae is currently a lawyer at the Alternative Law Groups, Inc. (ALG) and holds the position of litigation coordinator for the Environmental Defense Program. She pursued a career in alternative lawyering after practicing as a junior associate in a private ﬁ rm engaged mostly in corporate law. She realized early on that justice is achieved when those in the marginalized sectors are able to live a meaningful life with dignity. Her inclination towards human rights and environmental justice is greatly inﬂ uenced by her internship at the Ateneo Human Rights Center and Tanggol Kalikasan.

30 Oxana BUZOVICI Union for HIV Prevention and Harm Reduction (UORN) l Republic of Moldova

Oxana is a dedicated advocate of the rights of HIV-affected individuals and groups in the Republic of Moldova. She represents the “Youth for the Right to Live—Balti” public association, one of the ﬁ rst harm reduction organizations to provide integrated assistance to key affected communities in the northern region of the country since 2002. She is also part of the Union for HIV prevention and Harm

Reduction (UORN) that focuses on advocacy as well as strengthening, mobilizing and Biographies empowering sex workers, men who have sex with men (MSM), and people who use drugs. Since 2017, she has taken part in a national initiative to support the legal empowerment of vulnerable communities implemented by UORN with the support of Soros-Moldova Foundation.

Rodrigo CAMARENA Immigration Advocates Network l United States

Rodrigo is director of the Immigration Advocates Network, the largest network of nonproﬁ t legal advocates committed to defending immigrants. Rodrigo was formerly strategy director at Purpose where he developed advocacy campaigns and digital products for progressive international NGOs and nonproﬁ ts. Prior to Purpose, Rodrigo developed new initiatives to tackle economic inequality as executive director of Business Growth Programs for the City of New York. Rodrigo is also the former executive director of the Mixteca Organization—an immigrant rights organization based in Sunset Park Brooklyn.

Iryna CHAIKA Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision (Legal Club “PRAVOKATOR”) l Ukraine

As a child, Iryna was passionate about choreography, painting, theatre, and foreign languages. However, having witnessed how children can harm each other at an early age, she grew more and more determined to protect people’s rights and safeguard human dignity. She graduated from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in 2016, and started out as a lawyer at Legal Aid Ukraine providing free secondary legal aid. 31 Since 2017, she has been continuing legal empowerment work as a team member of the Legal Club PRAVOKATOR and head of department at the Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision in Kyiv.

Borany CHEA This Life Cambodia l Cambodia

Borany has more than 10 years’ experience working in community development in Cambodia. She has worked at This

Biographies Life Cambodia, leading its Education section. Prior to this, she worked at Save the Children Cambodia as an education program ofﬁ cer and at the Girl Guides Association of Cambodia as program coordinator. Borany holds a master’s degree in Development Management and a bachelor’s degree in Rural Development. Through her work, Borany seeks to engage community members to identify their needs and to provide them with technical support and tools so that they can design and implement a plan to address these needs. At This Life Cambodia, Borany supports community members and key stakeholders to identify barriers that inhibit children from accessing and completing their education. She also works with communities to identify ways of preventing domestic violence. Borany also works with government staff at the sub-national level to support their community engagement initiatives regarding the development, implementation and monitoring of education programs.

Marina DIAS WERNECK DE SOUZA Instituto de Defesa do Direito de Defesa l Brazil

Currently, Marina is the executive director of Instituto de Defesa do Direito de Defesa (IDDD). She has worked as a criminal lawyer specializing in human rights and media crimes, and was a partner at Dias e Carvalho Filho Advogados law ﬁ rm for 16 years. She is also a specialist in conﬂ ict mediation and restorative justice facilitation, and as a result, recently founded Karutana consulting. At IDDD, she mainly works on criminal justice cases related to access to justice and the prison system. Marina was also the lead researcher and executive producer of Sem Pena, a documentary on the justice system that received the audience award for best picture at the 2014 Brasilia Film Festival.

32 Gerel DONDOVDORJ Mongolian National Federation of the Blind l Mongolia

Gerel is president of the Mongolian National Federation of the Blind. She graduated from the Law School of the Mongolian National University and later obtained an MA in International Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame in the USA. Gerel is a member of the National Disability Policy Counsel of Mongolia and also serves as a member of the Disability Policy Counsel at the Ministry of Educa- tion, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, and the Ministry of Justice. She is the ﬁ rst

blind legal advocate in Mongolia and member of the Mongolian Bar association. She is Biographies also a member of the executive committee of the World Blind Union. In addition, she is actively involved in drafting laws on the rights of persons with disabilities in the Mon- golian Parliament, and helped draft the National Disability Program 2017–2021.

Margarita GLIGUROSKA HOPS Healthy Option Project Skopje l Macedonia

Since 2012, Margarita has been working as a legal advisor in HOPS–Healthy Options Project Skopje, and is primarily involved in civil, family, criminal and social law. She prepares legal documents, assists clients through various procedures, and documents cases of human rights violations. She is also responsible for the organizations’ paralegal work, which entails organizing educational meetings with paralegals on issues of violence, domestic violence, discrimination, and sex work regulation in the Republic of North Macedonia and other countries.

Emmerentia GOLIATH Witzenberg Rural Development Centre l South Africa

Emma is the co-founder of the Witzenberg Rural Development Centre (WRDC). It was established in 2013 when the previous community advice ofﬁ ce closed down but community members —especially farm workers—were still in need of legal advice. She successfully completed the introductory course for paralegals at the North West University of South Africa and trained at the annual Dullah Omar School for Paralegalism in 2019. She has a keen interest in access to justice, and supports rights-based approaches to development. She also worked for 10 years in the adult learning sector and won Educator of the Year in 2003 and Centre Manager of the Year in 2011. 33 Olesea HARTI National Paralegals Association in Moldova (NPAM) l Moldova

Olesea holds a licentiate degree in Social Pedagogy and a master’s degree in Emotional Culture Pedagogy. Her long-term goal is to make her contribution to the development of society by promoting human rights, empowering the population to assert and claim their rights and make them active participators in the decision- making process. That is why, in 2016, she became a paralegal at the National Legal

Biographies Aid Council. Olesea is also a social worker at the Department of Social Assistance and Family where she works with individuals, families, and communities to advance their social and economic wellbeing. In 2019, she became ofﬁ ce manager at the National Association of Paralegals in Moldova (NAPM), and is responsible for assisting the executive director in the overall implementation of NAPM projects.

Chelcy Alma Aminata HEROE Domestic Helpers Organization l Sierra Leone

Chelcy is a social worker from Sierra Leone. She is founder and chief executive ofﬁ cer of the Domestic Helpers Organization which aims at promoting awareness of the violations of the rights of domestic workers in Sierra Leone by strengthening their capacity to negotiate for improved wages and working conditions. She is a mother of three.

Siti Rakhma Mary HERWATI Indonesia Legal Aid Foundation l Indonesia

Rakhma is co-chair for knowledge management at the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) in Jakarta. She joined the Semarang Legal Aid Institute in 2000 and was the director between 2008 and 2011. From 2011 to 2013, she worked at the Association for Community-Based and Ecological Law-Reform (HuMa) in Jakarta and became a member of the Public Interest Lawyer Network (PILNet). Her educational background is in law, environmental and urban studies, and human rights. Her professional interests include agrarian reform, natural resources, environmental studies, and legal aid.

34 Olena HORBATKO Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation l Ukraine

Olena is from Chernihiv, located in northern Ukraine. She holds a master’s degree in Finance from the Kyiv National Economic University. She is project manager at the Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation and is in charge of its Pro Bono Space, a platform that unites representatives from the social sector with pro bono lawyers. She believes in the power of law and considers being a lawyer to be a “social profession”. She is also a volunteer at “Social Harmony”, an international non-governmental organization that unites socially responsible people dedicated to Biographies promoting ideas of sustainable development.

Than HTAIK Braveheart Foundation l Myanmar

Yadana co-founded Braveheart Foundation in 2000 as a language training centre for local youth in Myanmar. After several years of working in the education sector—and during the country’s democratic transition period—Braveheart Foundation became more and more focused on civic movements, and later children’s rights, land rights, minority rights and citizenship rights. The organization’s ﬁ rst pilot projects involving community-based paralegals were carried out in Hlaingtharyar of Yangon and Kengtung of Shan East. In addition, Yadana has been volunteering at the Myanmar National Paralegal Network since 2016 and is the focal point for the regional network.

Safa IDRESS People’s Legal Aid Center l Sudan

Safa works as a lawyer for the People’s Legal Aid Center, a non- proﬁ t association of lawyers and paralegals serving the legal needs of displaced and other marginalized people in Sudan. She is in charge of legal cases, and organizes workshops for paralegals and lawyers. Safa has a special interest in women’s rights, especially immigrants, refugees and displaced women.

35 Marina ILMINSKA Open Society Justice Initiative l Germany

Marina is an associate policy ofﬁ cer at the Open Society Justice Initiative, a technical assistance branch of the Open Society Foundations that strives to secure legal remedies for human rights abuses and promote effective enforcement of the rule of law. For the past ten years, the primary focus of her work has revolved around pre-trial justice reforms across the globe, including access to legal aid and pre-trial detention policies. Besides pre-trial justice, she has been working

Biographies on topics of economic justice, international justice, transparency and accountability, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Fernando José JEREZ PIETROPAOLO CEGSS l Guatemala

Fernando holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and is pursuing a master’s degree in Public Administration. For more than 10 years, he has conducted action research on how ideology shapes inequalities in public education and public health services. He currently works at the Center of Studies for Equity and Governance of Health Systems as a technical political adviser of a network of indigenous community health defenders. Within this network, he is also involved in designing and implementing strategic plans for legal empowerment and developing communication strategies that raise awareness about the right to health. He is the loving father of two girls, and is currently working on launching a podcast series about the inspiring lives of people he works with.

Alisa JIMENEZ UN Pathﬁ nders Task Force for Justice l United States

Alisa is a program associate at CIC on the Pathﬁ nders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies team, where she primarily supports the Task Force on Justice. Prior to joining CIC, Alisa was at the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Airbel Center as a research & development fellow. At the IRC, she worked on a review of country programs, analyzing grants, program documents, and conducting interviews with in-country staff to assess alignment with pre-existing

36 frameworks. Alisa has also spent time with the United Nations Development Program in Kosovo, providing research, briefs, and analysis on national and international small arms legislation and violent extremism. Previously, she worked at a national charter school and an international law ﬁ rm, focusing on recruitment and diversity initiatives.

Dallin JOHNSON Namati l United States

With passions for justice, human rights, and the environment,

Dallin works every day in his role at Namati to make the world Biographies a better place. Like Bryan Stevenson, he believes that “each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” Dallin graduated magna cum laude from Utah State University with degrees in Economics and International Business, where he was accepted into the interdisciplinary Huntsman Scholar program. With his class, he studied abroad in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, and France and learned ﬁ rsthand the importance of the law and intercultural collaboration in solving some of society’s most pressing issues. Previously, Dallin interned in the United States Senate, worked as a research associate for Strata Policy, and completed a research fellowship with the Center for Growth and Opportunity. Dallin is an outdoor enthusiast and spends much of his free time skiing, hiking, surﬁ ng, attending concerts, and learning from his friends over brunch.

Weerachat (Tom) KAEWPRADIT International Accountability Project l Thailand

Tom is a native of Chiang Mai, Thailand where he currently works as the Asia-Paciﬁ c program coordinator of the International Accountability Project. He is a community trainer, teacher, traveler, and Mekong activist. He supports local communities and civil society groups to promote the right to information and to ensure that developments are made by and for the people. He previously worked as the Mekong alumni coordinator at EarthRights International. Tom is also a volunteer at the Mekong Youth Assembly where he works to promote and strengthen ecological child rights and environmental youth activism in Southeast Asia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Chiang Mai University.

37 Adams KAMARA Youth Arise for Rural Development, Empowerment and Peace Building (YARDEPB) l Sierra Leone

Adams is a human rights and civil society activist, and is passionate about his work. He started out as a solicitor’s clerk and then pursued a diploma in Peace and Conﬂ ict Resolution at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. Currently, he is the executive director of Youth Arise for Rural Development, Empowerment and Peace Building (YARDEPB); is chairman of the Child Rights Coalition - Western Area

Biographies Rural District; and public relations ofﬁ cer of the Western Area Rural District Civil Society Forum. He is a motivator and initiator, and enjoys working in a team.

Mustapha KANU Namati l Sierra Leone

Mustapha was born in western Freetown, Sierra Leone. He holds a BA in Project Management and has diplomas in Project Management, Designing and Implementing Monitoring and Evaluation Systems, and Early Childhood Care and Education. As an undergraduate, Mustapha served as an IT and English language teacher at a secondary school in Freetown. In 2015, he joined Concern Worldwide where he worked as a data clerk, managing Ebola response data. He joined Namati Sierra Leone in 2017 as monitoring and evaluation ofﬁ cer. He enjoys watching or playing football, listening to music, and telling funny stories.

Katherine LAM Pro Bono Net l United States

Katie is currently a legal empowerment and technology fellow at Pro Bono Net, a leading legal aid technology nonprofi t based in NYC. As a fellow, Katie leads co-design projects that support increasing access to justice in communities across the nation. She is originally from Los Angeles, California and moved to New York City to study Sociology at Barnard College. While in school, Katie led Co- lumbia University’s Asian American activist group, helped VoteRunLead train women to run for offi ce, and supported teachers nation-wide as a customer experience agent for DonorsChoose.org. Katie loves combining her academic training, tech/nonprofi t

38 operations background, and community organizing experience by exploring the intersection of law, government, and technology.

Caitlin LAMBERT Horizon Institute l Somalia

Caitlin is the legal advisor at Horizon Institute, a Somaliland NGO working to advance access to justice and the rule of law through research, institution building and legal empowerment. At Horizon, she leads a team of paralegals working to assist Biographies persons in police and prison detention. Before joining Horizon, Caitlin clerked in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court and worked for African Rights in Kigali, Rwanda. She holds an MA in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford, a Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law and a BA in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College.

Mona MAHAGNA Kayan l Israel

Mona was born into a traditional family belonging to the Palestinian minority in Israel. She is a life-long social and political activist and a believer in social change. Mona earned her BA in Sociology, Anthropology, and Education at the Hebrew University and her MA in Group Leadership through the Arts from Lesley University. Mona works as a group facilitator with different social groups including women’s and youth groups. She joined Kayan’s Community Department in October 2013. As director of the Community Department, Mona leads a team that works on mobilizing Palestinian women to stand up for their rights and be transformative leaders in all spheres of life (personal, political, economic, etc.). She also ensures coordination between Kayan’s community mobilization and legal work, ensuring that women are aware of their rights and able to exercise them.

Arfan Faiz MUHLIZI Ministry of Law and Human Rights l Indonesia

Arfan was born in Tuban, a small town on the north coast of East Java, Indonesia. After graduating from high school, he went on to study at the University of Surabaya specializing in constitutional law, and obtained a Bachelor of Law degree 39 in 1999. In 2000, he joined the National Law Development Agency (BPHN) of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights as a junior law analyst. After working for 3 years at BPHN, he continued his studies and acquired a Master of Law degree from the University of Indonesia in Jakarta. Currently, he is the head of the Legal Aid Division at BPHN.

Francis Kakpindi MUSA Methodist Church Sierra Leone Relief and Development Agency (MCSL-RDA) l Sierra Leone Biographies Francis was born in a small village in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. He started out as a teacher and taught science, biology and health science in secondary schools in Sierra Leone and The Gambia. Later in his career, he became a community development worker and was recruited by ChildFund to supervise community-based programs related to child protection. Presently, Francis is the Development Secretary of the Methodist Church Sierra Leone and is in charge of developing partnerships with like-minded organizations that aim to improve the wellbeing of marginalized communities. He is interested in listening to gospel music, watching football and internet surﬁ ng.

Sampada NAYAK Namati l India

Sampada is a legal research associate of the Centre for Policy Research (CPR)-Namati Environmental Justice Program. She was born and brought up in a coal mining and industrial town in India and was exposed to the concept of environmental degradation, environmental protection & conservation from an early age. At CPR-Namati Environmental Justice Program, Sampada provides legal support in environmental justice cases to ﬁ eld teams in Gujarat and Odisha. Before joining the program, she interned with many policy research organizations such as the Centre for Internet and Society and the Centre for Child Rights NLUO, and hopes to realize her interests in social justice, policy, governance, activism and environmental justice through her work.

40 Lulu NG’WANAKILALA Legal Services Facility (LSF) l Tanzania

Lulu is currently the CEO of the Legal Services Facility (LSF) in Tanzania. Previously, she was the country representative for EngenderHealth, a global gender and public health organization, and executive director of UMATI–The Family Planning Association of Tanzania. She has spent close to 20 years managing programs that focus on human rights, gender, reproductive health, child protection, social and behavior change communication, civic participation, institutional strengthening, women’s empowerment, as well as governance and accountability. Biographies She has worked as a consultant with the CSO coalition of over 100 NGOs that shaped the National Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania (MKUKUTA). Lulu also represented the government of Tanzania at the International Commission on Population and Development (ICPD) in New York.

Thip NOUANSYVONG The Asia Foundation l Laos

Thip is an attorney with a background in Lao civil and criminal law, and currently serves as the law program offi cer at The Asia Foundation’s offi ce in Vientiane, Lao PDR. Prior to this role, Thip worked at the Law and Development Partnership (LDP) as a legal advisor and pro bono manager. She provided clients with legal assistance and issued legal advice regarding civil and criminal law. Her professional interests include civil law, employment law, criminal law, family law, domestic violence, and human traffi cking. She also provided legal support to the Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia Community Legal Education Initiative. Additionally, she has experience in the strengthening of the CLE Program which focuses on community outreach and consists of an in-house consultation clinic.

Aimee ONGESO Namati l Kenya

Aimee is Namati’s senior global network ofﬁ cer based in Nairobi. She leads regional efforts to build a stronger community and expand learning initiatives. She has spent more than 9 years working with communities in Kenya, promoting their active

41 participation in pro-poor policies and laws, including the country’s landmark Legal Aid Act. She has experience in conducting outreach and advocacy that connects communities with legislative reform processes, public interest litigation cases and legal aid services.

Martha OPILLI Keeping Alive Societies’ Hope (KASH) l Kenya

Martha’s great passion is ﬁ ghting for the rights of vulnerable and marginalized people by ensuring their access to health care and justice through sustainable community-based interventions. Biographies She has extensive experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programs that amplify the voices of these populations and address—and measurably reduce—stigma in society. She is a program technical expert with a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from Makerere University. She is also trained in results-based management by Africa Capacity Alliance. Martha currently works as a program manager at Keeping Alive Societies’ Hope (KASH), with a mandate to improve the quality of lives of vulnerable and marginalized people.

Prahesti PANDANWANGI Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas) l Indonesia

Prahesti is the director of Law and Regulation at the Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas) in Indonesia. She has an LLB from the University of Indonesia and an LLM from Kobe University, Japan. As director of Law and Regulation, Prahesti is responsible for coordinating the planning and budgeting processes of ministries and agencies in the legal sector. Her work also focuses on law development including human rights, legal and judicial reform, anti-corruption, and access to justice.

Srikrishna Deva Rao PENDYALA National Law University Odisha l India

Srikrishna Deva Rao is a professor of criminal law. He special- izes in clinical legal education and access to justice, and is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the National Law University Odisha. He was actively involved in legal aid and human rights work in India before entering into legal academia in 1990. The land rights paralegal project of the state of Andhra Pradesh was an offshoot of 42 his course on legal aid and public interest litigation. Srikrishna Deva Rao’s efforts to mainstream paralegal education was instrumental in bringing ‘Paralegal Volunteers’ under the scope of the Legal Services Authority Act in 2009. Previously, he was a visiting fellow at the School of Oriental & African Studies, SOAS, London and the University of Washington in Seattle.

Dyari Mustafa QADIR Jiyan Foundation l Iraq

Dyari was born and lives in Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Law Biographies from the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. In 2018, he participated in the Summer Academy for Intercultural Dialogue in Germany representing Kurdistan among four other countries. Currently, he works at the Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights as a local coordinator of the Youth Network for Peace and Dialogue Project. He is deeply committed to promoting active citizenship and human rights in Kurdistan and Iraq, and aims to raise awareness about social justice in his community.

Bhavna RAMJI Casual Workers Advice Ofﬁ ce l South Africa

Bhavna works at the Casual Workers Advice Ofﬁ ce. She is a practicing attorney and conducts litigation in support of the work of the advice ofﬁ ce and the workers who approach it. She holds an LLM in Constitutional Litigation and is completing an MPhil in Land and Agrarian Studies focusing on a set of court cases involving Western Cape farm workers. Her interests include organizing workers—especially casual workers and farm workers—who are unfamiliar with the labor law; and exploring the potential of litigation and other legal work (including legal education and rights awareness) to organize these workers.

Vuthy SEM EarthRights l Cambodia

Vuthy is a consultant for EarthRights International in Cambodia. He works closely with local communities who are affected by megaprojects such as dams and power plants, and helps them to exercise their rights through legal consultation and training. He is also working on narrowing the gap between the local 43 community and the legal community. In addition, Vuthy is a human rights educator; he teaches university students, community organizers and community members.

Vesna SHAPKOSKI Association for Legal Education and Transparency l Macedonia

Vesna holds a master’s in business law. For the past four years, she has been actively involved in the ﬁ eld of legal aid and legal empowerment within a Roma community in Prilep. She recently Biographies established a community-based center in the Municipality of Prilep, aimed at offering legal aid to people from various marginalized communities (ethnic communities, socially vulnerable families, single-parent families, former prisoners, young people from rural areas). The center’s work focuses on health and social rights, but also deals with issues related to personal documentation, land rights, employment and labor rights. She has a ﬁ ve-year-old son and strongly believes in women’s right to build a career and start a family at the same time.

Shruti SHRESTHA Nepal Disabled Women Association l Nepal

Shruti is a program coordinator at the Nepal Disabled Women Association working to protect the rights of women with disabilities. She holds a master’s degree in Social Work with a specialization in Mental Health from Tribhuwan University. She is a social worker with more than ﬁ ve years’ professional experience in the development sector and with practical knowledge in areas such as disability, youth, adolescence, gender-based violence, gender responsive budgeting, child rights, child labor, child sexual abuse, psychological ﬁ rst aid, research, monitoring and evaluation, disaster risk management, and documentation.

Onike (Nicky) SPENCER-COKER L.A.W.Y.E.R.S (Legal Access for Women Yearning for Equality, Rights and Social Justice) l Sierra Leone

As the current vice-president for L.A.W.Y.E.R.S (Legal Access for Women Yearning for Equality, Rights and Social Justice), Nicky is a leading voice in the ﬁ ght to promote and protect the rights of women and girls in Sierra Leone. L.A.W.Y.E.RS is

44 the port of call for many poor, desperate and vulnerable women and girls in Sierra Leone, providing legal support as well as representation in court. Nicky is also a defense counsel at the Sierra Leone Legal Aid Board and General Secretary of the General Legal Council of Sierra Leone. She was the legal analyst for the Women’s Situation Room during Sierra Leone’s 2018 elections, and has been recently recognized as one of the 100 Most Inspiring Sierra Leoneans and 50 Most Inﬂ uential Sierra Leonean Women.

Radwa TAMAM CARE International l Egypt Biographies Radwa graduated from the Sociology Department of Cairo University in 2013. She obtained a diploma in Management of Non-Governmental Organizations from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science in 2016. She has been working in the humanitarian ﬁ eld and empowering refugees for several years. She joined CARE International’s case management team in 2017, and worked as a caseworker with sexual and gender-based violence survivors until being promoted to case management supervisor. Through her work, she has handled hundreds of cases of Syrian and African children and their families. In 2018, she enrolled in Cairo University’s Professional Master’s Program in Gender and Development to deepen her understanding of gender patterns, gender roles, and gender biases.

Silvia Maribel TECUN LEÓN Movimiento De Mujeres Indígenas Tz’ununija’ (MMITZ) l Guatemala

Silvia is a K’iche’ Maya from Chichicastenango, a town in the El Quiché department of Guatemala. She is currently studying Criminal Law at the University of San Carlos de Guatemala. She is a lawyer and notary, with a specialization in crimes of violence against women, human trafﬁ cking and children’s rights violations. She is a member of the Tz’ununija’ Indigenous Women’s Movement (MMITZ) and has worked for over 10 years with indigenous organizations supporting processes related to strategic litigation and rights of indigenous peoples, including children. She has presented articles and papers on the rights of indigenous women in Guatemala both nationally and internationally, and is trained in the Inter-American Human Rights System.

45 Uyanga TSOGTSAIKHAN Beyond Book Project at the Community Library of Chingeltei District l Mongolia

Uyanga holds a master’s degree in Political Science and Administrative Law from the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, as well as a master’s in Labor and Employment Relations Law from the University of Melbourne, Australia. As the manager of the “Strengthening trade unions” project, Uyanga worked with the Mongolian Trade Union for several years on renewing the labor law and other

Biographies related policies and procedures. After graduating from the University of Melbourne in 2017, she followed her passion to work with children and joined the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation to help children living in extreme poverty in Mongolia. Recently, Uyanga was selected to lead the “Putting rights in the citizen’s hands” project supported by the Open Society Forum in Mongolia. She is also the co-founder of the ﬁ rst-ever community library in Mongolia.

Indu TULADHAR Himal Innovative Development and Research l Nepal

Indu is a legal expert in Nepal working in the area of gender justice, rule of law and human rights, and is a leading member of the Nepali gender and development community and feminist movement. Educated in Nepal and the United Kingdom, she is a conﬂ ict expert who has provided legal and political advice in the constitutional assembly and other government bodies. She has authored two books: Women Deﬁ ning State Restructuring (2008) and Women in the Constitutional Context (2016 & 2017) along with several research articles and booklets. She leads Himal Innovative Development and Research Pvt. Ltd. (HIDR).

Ikechukwu UZOMA Open Society Justice Initiative l Germany

Ikechukwu is an Aryeh Neier Fellow at the Open Society Justice Initiative based in Berlin. An international law expert, he supports the advocacy, strategic litigation, research and CSO partnerships of the Justice Initiative around the world. Prior to joining OSJI, Ikechukwu was a program afﬁ liate scholar of

46 the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University (NYU) Law School. In this role, he researched the impact of climate change on human rights in Africa. Ikechukwu received his LLB from Abia State University, Uturu in 2012 and graduated from the Nigerian Law School in 2014. In 2017, Ikechukwu completed a Master of Laws program at NYU Law School where he was a member of the Global Justice Clinic and worked on business and human rights issues arising out of Ghana and Guyana. Following his LL.M, Ikechukwu worked as the NYU International Law and Human Rights fellow in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) of the United Nations at the headquarters in New York. Biographies Hanan Erikat VAN DRIL Community Activism Law Alliance l United States

Hanan is a staff attorney at Community Activism Law Alliance, a non-traditional legal aid organization that partners with community organizations and activists to bring legal aid to under- served communities. CALA unites lawyers and activists in a collaborative pursuit for justice by leveraging legal services to beneﬁ t the most marginalized communities and individuals. Hanan practices primarily in immigration and family law, but maintains a general practice. Prior to CALA, she litigated civil rights cases in federal and state courts. Hanan is a Palestinian- American ﬁ rst-generation immigrant and a native Arabic speaker.

Tara WEKHYAN Justice Center for Legal Aid l Jordan

Tara is an experienced resource development ofﬁ cer at the Justice Center for Legal Aid (JCLA), with a demonstrated history of working in the ﬁ eld of access to justice, female empowerment and community-based organizing. The Justice Center for Legal Aid (JCLA) works to ensure equal access to justice for all and develop the national legal aid system in Jordan. Tara is also the co-founder of a Jordanian CBO, 3izwa, which focuses on autonomous development of indigenous peoples in Madaba. 3izwa does this through addressing social, economic and environmental challenges and protecting and restoring indigenous cultural identity and traditions. Tara is passionate about social change through grassroots initiatives, and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Social Work for Refugees & Migration at the German Jordan University (GJU).

47 Dio Ashar WICAKSANA Indonesian Judicial Monitoring Society l Indonesia

Dio is the executive director of the Indonesian Judicial Moni- toring Society. He graduated from the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Spain in 2017. He has been conducting research and public advocacy work since 2012 and focuses on establishing an access to justice framework in Indonesia. He also developed legal empowerment activities in the Indonesian paralegal community and collaborated with the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute to develop

Biographies teaching methods and a curriculum for Indonesian paralegals.

Kateryna YEROSHENKO Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation l Ukraine

Kateryna’s professional interests include advocacy, community social work, ensuring access to legal aid, development of community leadership, community and police cooperation, and monitoring of law enforcement activities. Since 2014, she has been coordinating projects at the All-Ukrainian Charitable Organization “Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation” and has been involved in developing cooperation between legal aid providers in local communities. Kateryna also coordinates the activities of the “Council on the development of the paralegal community in Ukraine”, and is the author of the “Advocacy and Communication” training module for paralegals. Kateryna is currently enrolled in the Social Work Ph.D. Program of the Academy of Labor, Social Relations and Tourism.

CEU STUDENT PARTICIPANT

Tuan NGUYEN CEU School of Public Policy l Hungary

Tuan is pursuing a master of public administration at CEU’s School of Public Policy. He is conducting a research project with the OECD Division on Governance for Gender, Justice and Inclusiveness on the topic of access to justice in Australia and Ukraine, with an emphasis on marginalized communities. In addition, his professional interests include civil society space and policy advocacy in non-democratic contexts. 48 COURSE STAFF

Marta ALMELA Namati l Spain

Born and raised in Barcelona, Marta supports the Global egal Empowerment Network member initiatives throughout Latin America. She has extensive experience in human rights and protection, with a regional focus on Latin America. Marta has

lived and worked in Colombia and Guatemala, and has also Biographies served as a Latin America researcher for the Armed Conﬂ ict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) coding political violence and conﬂ ict events in Central America. She holds an MA in International Relations – International Humanitarian Action from Rijksuiversiteit Groningen and a BA in Humanities from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She loves hiking, reading, and cooking.

Zsanett BORSOS Open Society Justice Initiative l Hungary

Zsanett is the program associate for the legal empowerment project of the Open Society Justice Initiative. Based in OSF’s Berlin ofﬁ ce, Zsanett received her bachelor’s degree in international relations and history from Western Maryland College and her master’s degree in Arab Gulf studies at the University of Exeter. Zsanett previously worked as a personal assistant to the CEO of the Hungarian subsidiary of a multinational corporation. She has interned with the American–Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in the United States and the European Roma Rights Centre and the International Center for Not-for-Proﬁ t Law, both located in Budapest.

Livia MARSCHALL CEU School of Public Policy, Global Policy Academy l Hungary

Livia ﬁ rst joined CEU in 2014 as a program assistant at the Roma Graduate Preparation Program. She transitioned to CEU’s School of Public Policy in 2015 and is currently managing its executive education unit—the Global Policy Academy. Outside CEU, her professional interests lie at the intersection of education and art. She has worked as a curator at Gallery8–Roma Contemporary Art Space, and is also involved 49 in the community-focused architecture projects of Hello Wood, a Budapest-based architecture and design studio. She holds an MA in cultural anthropology and English language and literature from Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE) in Budapest.

Michael OTTO Namati l United States

Michael is Namati’s global network ofﬁ cer, having worked in access to justice, legal education and development since 2004,

Biographies where he began building legal clinics and paralegal programs throughout Southeast Asia with Bridges Across Borders. In Cambodia, he managed the Community Empowerment and Legal Awareness Program, supporting grassroots advocates through participatory curriculum development, legal rights training, and advocacy campaigns. Michael has also worked with Equal Access International in London and Nepal and has served as a founding board member of Tiny Toones in Cambodia, a non-profi t working with at-risk youth through arts, dance, and education, since 2007. Michael holds a BA in legal studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an MSC in Violence, Confl ict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and is a certifi ed mediator.

Nóra TIBOLD CEU School of Public Policy, Global Policy Academy l Hungary

Nóra has a BA diploma in International Business and an MSc diploma in Business Development. During her studies, she spent a semester studying at the Louvain School of Management in Belgium and later worked as a marketing assistant in Málaga, Spain as part of the Erasmus+ scheme. After graduating, she worked for more than four years as an HR specialist for a BPO company in Budapest before joining CEU’s SPP Global Policy Academy team to support the Academy’s work as a Program Assistant and Events Manager in 2018.

50 Tyler WALTON NYU l United States

Tyler is the inaugural Tuttleman Legal Empowerment Fellow at the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU School of Law. As a fellow, he works on legal empowerment, researching and co-developing strategies with affected community members to access and exercise their rights and shift power paradigms back towards communities and individuals. Prior to joining the Bernstein Institute, Tyler was a fellow at the Southern Africa Litigation Centre where he led the program on freedom of expression, working to combat closing civic Biographies spaces in southern Africa and address new human rights issues caused by the rise of the Internet and digital technologies. He also served two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi developing participatory community health programs to advance gender equality, access to safe drinking water, and HIV prevention and mitigation.

51 Open Society Justice Initiative

The Open Society Justice Initiative uses law to protect and empower people around the world, supporting the values and work of the Open Society Foundations. Through litigation, advocacy, research, and technical assistance, we strive to secure legal remedies for human rights abuses and promote effective enforcement of the rule of law. Justice Initiative lawyers have represented scores of individuals before domestic and international courts, in cases that have sought not only to vindicate Organizers individual claims, but to establish and strengthen the law’s protection for all. The Justice Initiative documents violations, proposes solutions, engages policy-makers, and offers assistance that draws on our global legal experience. Its efforts focus on accountability for international crimes, racial discrimination and statelessness, criminal justice reform, abuses related to national security and counterterrorism, the promotion of freedom of information and expression, and combating natural resource-related corruption.

Namati

For billions of people around the world, the law is broken. It’s an abstraction—or worse, a threat—but not something people can use to exercise their basic rights. Namati is building a global movement of community legal workers—also known as barefoot lawyers, or community paralegals—who empower people to understand, use, and shape the law. These paralegals form a dynamic, creative frontline that can squeeze justice out of even broken systems. Namati and our partners train and deploy community paralegals to take on some of the greatest injustices of our times. Together with the communities we serve, we strive to translate the lessons from our grassroots experience into positive, largescale changes to laws and systems. Namati convenes the Global Legal Empowerment Network—over 2,000 groups from every part of the world. We are learning from one another, advocating together, and joining forces to bring justice everywhere.

52 Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, NYU School of Law

Honoring and extending the legacy of Robert L. Bernstein, the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU School of Law promotes cutting- edge research, education, and advocacy on human rights issues around the world, with a focus on defending dissent and advancing legal empowerment. The Institute embraces a holistic approach to human rights, deepening engagement with key stakeholders in the pursuit of justice: law students, human rights defenders, scholars, judges, Organizers interdisciplinary allies, and affected communities. The Institute also supports other human rights initiatives at the Law School and University and acts as the coordinating hub for existing human rights work at NYU, including the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice, the US-Asia Law Institute, and NYU Stern’s Center for Business and Human Rights.

CEU School of Public Policy, Global Policy Academy

SPP’s Global Policy Academy (GPA) organizes academically rigorous and policy-relevant courses that are designed not as traditional training seminars but as hubs for sectoral dialogue and experience exchange. The Academy leverages the broad and deep expertise of SPP faculty to address the needs of policy professionals who wish to broaden their knowledge as they serve the public good. Participants from the public, private, and non-proﬁ t sectors enroll in GPA courses to gain relevant practice-oriented skills grounded in research-based knowledge. They also take advantage of the School’s global reach to grow and enrich their professional networks in an exceptional learning environment.

53 Notes

Open Society Justice Initiative

224 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019, USA Phone: +1 212 548 0600 https://www.justiceinitiative.org

Namati Global

1616 P Street NW, Suite 101 Washington, D.C. 20036, USA Phone: +1 202 888 1086 https://namati.org/

School of Public Policy at Central European University

Nádor utca 9, H–1051 Budapest, Hungary Phone/Fax: +36 1 327 3110 Email: [email protected] http://spp.ceu.edu

Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, NYU School of Law

139 MacDougal Street, B22 New York, New York 10012, USA Email: [email protected] http://www.law.nyu.edu

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