Alumni

In 2025, Dorcas Francis Loly Werson made a decision that required extraordinary courage. Leaving her children in South Sudan, she enrolled in the Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) at the University of Pretoria — a step shaped by sacrifice, determination and a deep commitment to advancing the rights of women and girls.

The Global Campus Alumni (GCA) has launched the 2025–26 edition of its cross-regional alumni-led activities, reaffirming its commitment to supporting young graduates as they take their first independent steps and design and implement their own human-rights initiatives. Fourteen projects were selected for support — dynamic and diverse in scope, and led by alumni themselves.

From 9 to 11 December 2025, we, a small team of GC alumni and Youth Advisory Group members, joined more than 250 participants in Budapest for the Forum on Human Rights Education — Unleashing Human Rights, organised by the Council of Europe and OHCHR with the European Youth Forum, Amnesty International, and the support of the Global Campus. Representing GC hubs across Brazil, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, South Africa, Palestine and Cameroon, our group contributed diverse regional perspectives to the discussions.

When Myanmar’s fragile democratic opening collapsed in 2021, GC Asia Pacific alumna Hnin Wut Yee was forced to flee the country she had spent years trying to support. Today, from Thailand, she leads efforts to protect the rights of migrant workers—many of them Myanmar nationals—drawing on the human rights education and experience she gained through the Global Campus.

Seventeen talented young professionals from across Southeast Europe and beyond have successfully completed the 24th edition of the European Regional Master’s Programme in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe (GCSEE/ERMA). A new generation of human rights practitioners — equipped with critical thinking, empathy, and the determination to address today’s most pressing global challenges.

Venice, September 2025 — Twenty-five years after completing their studies, members of the 2000 “Millennium” Alumni Cohort of the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA) returned to Venice to meet the current class of 2025 of around 90 students.