The Associate Director, Field Initiative, International Centre on Nonviolent( ICNC) yesterday visited the #BringBackOurGirls group at the Unity Fountain, Abuja, venue of its advocacy for the rescue of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram sect over two years ago. Ms. Hughes-Fraitekh pledged to support the advocacy aimed at bringing the girls back adding that…
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The Associate Director, Field Initiative, International Centre on Nonviolent( ICNC) yesterday visited the #BringBackOurGirls group at the Unity Fountain, Abuja, venue of its advocacy for the rescue of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram sect over two years ago.
Ms. Hughes-Fraitekh pledged to support the advocacy aimed at bringing the girls back adding that there won’t be justice for the girls until they were brought back.
She also commended the group for standing for so long for the girls even when it seems like all hope was lost, urging them to continue to stand for the girls until they were brought back to their families.
Ms. Hughes-Fraitekh oversees International Centre on Nonviolent( ICNC) programmes and educational initiatives for organisers and activists around the world and in the United States.
In collaboration with other ICNC staff, advisors and experts, her work focuses on workshops on civil resistance, research and development of educational resources for practitioners, information dissemination, and building partnerships with other organisations and institutions related to these initiatives.
Ms. Hughes-Fraitekh was Executive Director of Peace Brigades International-USA (PBI) from 2008-2014, working closely with PBI’s field teams and human rights defenders, organisations, and communities in regions of conflict in Latin America, Asia, and Africa where PBI provides “protective accompaniment”. She organised and participated in tens of speaking tours, panels, and training seminars across the United States with human rights defenders and returning PBI field officers at university, business, faith-based, NGO, and congressional forums.
She recruited, trained and provided re-entry support to US volunteers serving in field projects and worked with coalitions of human rights and nonviolent action organisations on collaborative initiatives.
While at PBI-USA, Katherine also co-developed and implemented advocacy strategies to protect human rights defenders at the United Nations Human Rights Committee, Human Rights Council and Special Rapporteurs, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, US Congress, Department of State and Justice, International Human Rights Funder’s Group and the European Union (through the Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders).
She further co-founded and managed the National Lawyer’s Committee on Human Rights, a PBI-USA advisory committee, which provides pro-bono legal services to human rights defenders and grassroots communities fighting impunity, violence and corruption utilising nonviolent strategies.
She also worked with the Women’s Human Rights Defenders international coalition and the Commission on the Status of Women on gender based issues.
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