Tawanda Mutasah

Tawanda Mutasah (born 1970[1]) is a lawyer, human rights advocate and Senior Director for Law and Policy at the Amnesty International Secretariat.

Biography

He was formerly Global Director of Programs at the Open Society Foundations.[2] He trained in law at Harvard University, New York University and the University of Zimbabwe, and holds a management degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has worked for Oxfam Great Britain as a spokesman on African issues, and previously directed Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa.[3]

He contributes media articles in a number of outlets, covering topics such as the rule of law,[4] human rights[5] and democracy.[6]

gollark: Overpopulation seems very overrated as a problem.
gollark: It's annoying about how I regularly read about exciting new battery tech which never seems to go anywhere.
gollark: Why do you need batteries for nuclear power/mining of uranium?
gollark: Capitalism approximately satisfies people's values. But people apparently have terrible values.
gollark: Praise N U C L E A R.

References
  1. http://www.abanet.org/rolsymposium/docs/iba_speaker_biographies.pdf
  2. "Tawanda Mutasah". Open Society Foundations. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  3. "Staff: Tawanda Mutasah". Open Society Foundation. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  4. http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/45032/who-will-stop-zimbabwe-s-torturers-by-tawanda-mutasah-.html
  5. "Tawanda Mutasah". Newsweek. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  6. Mutasah, Tawanda (3 April 2007). "Africa's responsibility". The New York Times.


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