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Sarah Leah Whitson

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Sarah Leah Whitson
Rayuwa
Haihuwa 20 century
Karatu
Makaranta Harvard Law School (en) Fassara
University of California, Berkeley (en) Fassara
Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School (en) Fassara
Sana'a
Sana'a Mai kare ƴancin ɗan'adam
Employers Sa-ido akan Haƙƙin Ɗan Adam

Sarah Leah Whitson lauya ce ta Amurka kuma bababr darakta na Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN).[1] A baya ta yi aiki a matsayin darakta na Gabas ta Tsakiya da Arewacin Afirka na Human Rights Watch.

Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi

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Whitson ta girma ne daga mahaifiyar Armeniya ta Amurka, Ashi Whitson, wacce aka haifa a yankin Armeniya na Tsohon Birnin Urushalima kuma ta yi hijira zuwa Amurka a shekarar 1960. Mahaifinta ya fito ne daga Texas. Whitson dalibi ne a makarantar Rose da Alex Pilibos Armenian School na tsawon shekaru 12 a Los Angeles kuma ya shafe lokacin rani tare da iyali a Lebanon, Siriya, da Jordan.[2]

A shekara ta 1988, Whitson ta kammala karatu tare da digiri na farko na Arts daga Jami'ar California, Berkeley, wanda ke Berkeley, California, yana ɗaukar lokaci don yin karatu a kasashen waje a Misira.[2] A shekara ta 1991, ta kammala karatu tare da digiri na Juris Doctor daga Makarantar Shari'a ta Harvard, inda ta kasance abokiyar ajiyar Barack Obama.

Sarah Leah Whitson a taro

Whitson ya rubuta labarai don irin waɗannan wallafe-wallafen kamar Manufofin Kasashen Waje da Huffington Post.

Farkon aiki

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Bayan kammala makarantar lauya, Whitson ya yi aiki ga Goldman Sachs, kamfanin banki na saka hannun jari, da kuma kamfanin lauya na Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.

A lokaci guda, a cewar Sabuwar Jamhuriyar, ta "yi aiki a gefe, ta ba da gudummawa ga, a tsakanin sauran kungiyoyi, Kwamitin Yaki da nuna bambanci na Amurka da Larabawa (inda ta kasance co-mai shirya tawagar a shekarar 2002 wacce ta matsa wa Kofi Annan don ci gaba da bincike na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya game da aikin Jenin na Isra'ila) da MADRE (kungiyar kare hakkin mata, tare da ita ta yi tafiya zuwa Lebanon a kan aikin hadin kai a shekarar 1996 bayan yakin bam na Isra'i).[2] Ta yi aiki sau biyu a kwamitin daraktoci na reshen New York na Kwamitin Anti-Discrimination na Amurka da Larabawa, a cikin 2001 da 2002.[3][4]

Kafin ta yi aiki ga HRW, ta kuma yi aiki a matsayin babban lauya ga Cibiyar Kula da Harkokin Tattalin Arziki da Jama'a, kuma ta yi tafiya a kan ayyukan kare hakkin dan adam zuwa Iraki don wannan kungiyar. Bugu da kari, ta kasance memba mai sa kai na Kwamitin Lauyan 'Yancin Dan Adam da Kungiyar Lauyan Armenia, wanda ta kasance memba. Bugu da ƙari, Whitson ya shiga cikin aikin haƙƙin ɗan adam don ƙungiyar Nazarin Harvard da ayyukan Ƙungiyar Nazarin Duniya waɗanda ke nazarin tasirin yaƙi da takunkumi ga fararen hula na Iraki. Ta kuma shiga cikin aikin sa ido kan zabe na Ƙungiyar Kare Hakkin Dan Adam ta Duniya a Arewacin Iraki da ke karkashin ikon Kurdawa.

Rayuwa ta mutum

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Whitson ta auri Josh Zinner, co-direkta na Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project a Birnin New York. Suna da 'ya'ya biyu.

  • Jerin tsofaffin ɗaliban makarantar shari'a ta Harvard
  • Jerin tsofaffin jami'ar California, Berkeley
  1. "From Infiltrating Wikipedia to Paying Trump Millions in Golf Deals, Saudis Whitewash Rights Record". Democracy Now! (in Turanci). Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Minority Report Human Rights Watch Fights a Civil War over Israel". The New Republic. April 27, 2010.
  3. Bernstein, David (November 5, 2009). "Human Rights Watch Needs To Shake Up Its Staff"[permanent dead link]. The San Francisco Examiner.
  4. "Kofi Annan Assures ADC Leaders About Jenin Mission". American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.