Alumni

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.

The Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) has a long tradition of training women human rights legal experts who are having an impact across the continent. A recent conference in Nairobi brought together over 100 women for an intergenerational dialogue, in which two alumnae shared their experiences after graduation.

Two recent graduates, Rosita Sekandari (GC Europe – EMA) and Rokhsar Sadat (GC Caucasus – CES), have launched an online educational program for Afghan girls who were either school graduates or university students. Both alumnae, originally from Afghanistan, are deeply aware of the severe restrictions on education and the impact these have had on the lives of young women after the Taliban takeover.

When Global Campus students graduate they become Global Campus alumni. What stays the same is the Global Campus’ commitment to them and our shared commitment to human rights. The Regional Correspondents scheme is one of the ways we nurture these commitments.

Tiina Vahtras, an EMA Alumna, recently presented an extensive session for current EMA students aiming to bridge the gap between human rights protection policy and practice. The principles and application of human rights due diligence in international security sector assistance were the main topics of the workshop