Human Rights Day 2024

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Human Rights Day 2024

Name: Human Rights Day 2024
Start: 2024-12-03T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-12-03T20:30:00+00:00
Location: University United Methodist Church (UUMC)

December 3 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Join us for a special Human Rights Day event featuring MSU Humphrey Fellows! Hear from four Fellows as they share perspectives on human rights in their home countries:

Francis Nyonzo – Tanzania
Samira Ousmanes Mamoudou – Niger
Hadjer Neggaz – Algeria
Anastasiya Khamiankova – Belarus

This is a unique opportunity to connect, learn, and discuss global human rights. Attend in person or via Zoom. PLEASE REGISTER HERE!

Co-sponsored by the Peace Education Center & LATTICE.

Francis Stephen Nyonzo is an economist, author, and researcher who is interested in regional integrations, development economics, economics of crimes, digital economy, and behavioral economics. Francis Nyonzo is the Head of Content Management at JamiiForums, a Tanzania-based non-government organization that promotes and advocates transparency, accountability, good governance, civil rights, democracy, social justice, and digital rights. He has also been involved in empowering women in business through education on financial literacy.

Anastasiya has nearly two decades of experience in developing effective startup ecosystems in Belarus. In 2013, Anastasiya co-founded Imaguru Startup HUB, one of the largest innovation centers in Eastern Europe. After seven years of building startup ventures, educating entrepreneurs, and developing corporate innovations, Imaguru was forced to shut down all operations in Minsk in 2020 and later on was labeled an “extremist” organization by the Belarusian regime. Relocating operations to both Lithuania and Poland, Anastasiya and her team have transformed Imaguru into a Pan-European HUB that focuses on both local and relocated communities.

Hadjer Neggaz is a solution-oriented leader, communicator, and trainer whose passion is to empower the youth of Algeria. Throughout her career, she has focused on equipping Algerian youth with the skills necessary to contribute to national development. Hadjer Neggaz currently serves as Senior Employment Specialist of World Learning Algeria, an international NGO based in Algeria, where, over the last two years, she has trained more than 300 trainers in 21st century skills and coordinated with local partners in 40 provinces within Algeria. Her professional interests include climate change, sustainable development, capacities development, and entrepreneurship.

Samira Ousmane Mamoudou is an award-winning social advocate and entrepreneur committed to the economic advancement of women and youth. Samira is the Executive Director of NigeriElles, an organization that promotes women’s entrepreneurship, economic development, and leadership in Niger. She is responsible for creating, designing and implementing projects and programs for vocational training, job creation, financial education, digitalization, and sales and distribution of local women’s products. Samira’s professional goals include sharpening her skills in social protection, especially financial inclusion for women and youth, learning from U.S. organizations best practices for developing her country’s social sector, and connecting with incubators and accelerators to envision how such programs could be replicated in Niger.