Today HREA welcomes Benjamin Stachursky as a Human Rights Education Fellow. Benjamin Stachursky will be HREA’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Fellow from February-June 2015. During this period he will be supporting HREA’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Program and (co-)instructing several gender-related courses.
Prior to joining HREA as a Fellow, Benjamin has been working as a (freelance) consultant and researcher on human rights and gender issues in development cooperation since finishing his PhD in International Relations in 2010. In his doctoral thesis he has been looking at the effects of processes of transnationalisation on women’s rights activism in Egypt and Iran. He has worked on different projects for GIZ, the German Institute for Human Rights as well as Plan International. Since 2014 he is also regularly cooperating as with Seidensticker Coaching and Consulting, a small Berlin-based consultancy. He regularly teaches university courses on issues related to his work and recently finished a six-month train-the-trainer course. He has also been the Egypt expert of Amnesty International Germany for many years.
Fellows will have the opportunity to further develop research, teaching, and facilitation skills and will be based for three months at HREA’s office in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA).
