Ramy Abdu (Arabic: رامي عبده) (or Ramy Abdo ) is a Palestinian financial expert, assistant professor of Law and Finance, and human rights advocate who was born in the

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. He is the founder and chairman of the

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (commonly known as Euro-Med Monitor and sometimes as Euro-Med HRM) is an independent, nonprofit organization for the protection of human rights. Its main objective is to raise awareness about human rights ...

, established in 2011. As the chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, Abdu delivered several oral statements and took part in different events at the United Nations Human Rights Council, addressing

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in the Middle East and North Africa Region. Ramy Abdu is a policy analyst with the Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian policy network. He sponsored the establishment of

We Are Not Numbers We Are Not Numbers (WANN) is a project for established in 2015 by Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor to provide English-language writing workshops for young Palestinians in Gaza. It provides each participant with six months of training a ...

in early 2015. Conceived by American journalist Pam Bailey under the umbrella of the

, the project was launched for young adults in the

and designed both to help them share their narratives (and those of their people) in their own words with the Western (English-speaking) world and bust

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s about Palestinians.

Early life and education

Ramy Abdu holds a

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and

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in Law and Finance from the Manchester Metropolitan University, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Jordan. Before he served as the chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, Abdu worked as a project and investment coordinator for the

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and other internationally funded projects aiming at tackling the economic and humanitarian crisis in the

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Published works

Ramy Abdu authored and co-authored several publications, including The Influence of Minority Shareholder Protection on Equity Market Development, a book published by

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, Escaping the Escape: Toward Solutions for the Humanitarian Migration Crisis, a book published by Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.) in 2017, in which he analysed Palestinians’ motives to take deadly risks to attempt to leave the

, The Effect of the 50-day Conflict in Gaza on Children: A Descriptive Study, published by the Lancet., and As MENA States Grow Increasingly Repressive, Businesses Should Lead Reform, published on the Journal of Political Risk, in which he analysed businesses' responsibility of challenging repressive policies and

in the MENA region. Abdu's published works also appear on

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

, OpenDeomcracy,

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and

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References

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