Ramy Moustafa Abdelhady (Human Rights Law LLM, 2020)
Ramy Moustafa Abdelhady is appointed as Senior Litigation Expert at the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights.
Last August, Ramy Moustafa Abdelhady was appointed as Senior Litigation Expert at the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights. His primary role is to investigate human rights violations committed by the African states. He is responsible for deciding whether to refer cases to the African Court of Human Rights, and then litigating before the Court.
Besides the role in the African Commission, he was also promoted to become a Chief Judge by decree issued by the Egyptian Higher Judicial Council.
Ramy expresses how obtaining his LLM in Human Rights Law from QMUL paved the way for him in the international field: “The diversity of courses the law department offered was amazing, and it enabled me to carefully choose the modules that really interested me. In the international human rights course with the great professor Eva Nanopoulos, I was introduced to different international and regional human rights mechanisms, one of them being the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. After reading about it myself, I decided that, being an African Prosecutor who is interested in the field of human rights, the Commission is the perfect choice for me to start my international career. Furthermore, I took two courses in the field of International Refugee Law, with the amazing prof. Violeta Moreno-Lax. The great amount of academic knowledge I obtained during these courses is indescribable, and helped me a lot to be qualified to work directly with Commissioner Maya Sahli-Fadel the Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Internally Displaced Persons, and Migrants in Africa, once I got here in the Commission.”