Focus: Human Rights
Episode 15: 2017 World Fellow Rema Rajeshwari
Rema Rajeshwari describes her childhood in Kerala. After she graduated from police training, she served as an assault commander with the Greyhounds, an elite special force. She has used her position to champion the rights of children and women.
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2016 World Fellow and Syrian human rights activist Mustafa Haid talks about the civil war in Syria and how to end it.
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Yale co-hosts Conversations Without Borders event in Madrid
We have to be more courageous. That was one of the challenges issued by a panelist during the March 3 “Conversations Without Borders” on Europe’s migrant crisis. Four Yale World Fellows gathered at the headquarters of Banco Santander in Madrid, Spain, to lead a discussion on the challenges and impact of the massive wave of migrants pouring into Europe from the Middle East each day. Panelists included Mina Al-Oraibi YWF ’15, an Iraqi-British journalist who has covered the conflict for many years, Mohamed Baba YWF ’06, political secretary for the ruling part in Amsterdam, Mohamed Elfayoumy YWF ’13, an Egyptian diplomat and political advisor to the UN Special Envoy to Syria, and Martina Larkin YWF ’11 of the…
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