John Paul P. A. Amah, an alumnus of the GC Europe / EMA programme, contributes to the Children’s Rights Team, focusing particularly on child participation.
John Paul P. A. Amah joined the Global Campus as an intern in 2021, initially supporting project management tasks with the Children’s Rights Department and the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty team.
Before joining the Global Campus, John Paul worked for 10 years as youth and adolescent educator and counsellor in different regions of Cameroon. He also worked as Field Officer for ‘Human Is Right’, a Cameroon-based NGO where he undertook field missions and documented human rights violations in the English-speaking parts of Cameroon under armed conflict.
In addition to his Master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA), John Paul also holds a Post Graduate Teachers’ Diploma Grade II from École Normale Supérieure, University of Yaoundé I, a Maitrise en Droit from the University of Yaoundé II, and a Bachelor’s in Management and Environmental Geography from the University of Dschang, all in Cameroon. His research interests in children’s rights focus on the right to participation and the right to education.