The Noble Fight: Eradicating Poverty Worldwide

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Posted by Global Citizen at 1:57 AM

Global Citizen: Dickson Mugendi David Ntwiga, holds an MA in Human Rights from Mahidol University in Thailand and studied Forced Migration at Oxford University. Ntwiga has also attended training on Diplomacy at the University of New South Wales (Faculty of Law). He served as a Country Director for the Catholic Commission on Migration in Thailand. The agency provided humanitarian assistance to refugees and migrants. He also advised Amnesty International Thailand on issues relating to refugee and migrant rights. For 4 years, he attended UNHCR’s ExCom in Geneva and was nominated for the Reebok Human Rights Award and Nansen Refugee Award in 2001 and 2002 respectively. He is the author of a book entitled “Protecting Domestic Violence in U.S. Asylum Law: Problems of Defining Membership in a Particular Social Group". Ntwiga is the founder of Solidarity House International, which is presently undertaking a poverty reduction project in Kenya.

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