Promoting the Rule of Law in Darfur as a UN Voluntee

from UNDP

West Darfur is a long way from my home in North Carolina in the southern part of United States of America. But my path to El Geneina makes sense in light of my work in the region.

Prior to serving as a UN Volunteer Rule of Law Officer with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), I got to know the warmth of the Sudanese people when I worked as a teacher in a refugee school for children in Istanbul, Turkey. A number of my former students came from various parts of Sudan. More recently, I was a legal advisor at Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA) in Cairo, Egypt, where I worked closely with a number of Darfurians who had come to Cairo seeking asylum. In Egypt – where I earned a Masters Degree in International Human Rights Law at the American University in Cairo and carried out research on Darfur for my thesis – my concern with the growing displacement in the western part of Sudan led me to apply to work as a UN Volunteer in Darfur.

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