Ramy Abdu

Ramy Abdu
رامي عبده
Abdu in 2023
NationalityPalestinian
EducationPhD in Law and Finance from the Manchester Metropolitan University

Ramy Abdu (Arabic: رامي عبده) (or Ramy Abdo[1]) is a Palestinian financial expert[2][3] and human rights advocate[4][non-primary source needed] who was born in the Gaza Strip. He is the founder and chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, established in 2011.[5][6] As the chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor,[7][8][9][10][11] Abdu delivered several oral statements and took part in different events at the United Nations Human Rights Council, addressing human rights violations in the Middle East and North Africa Region.[12][13][14]

Abdu is a policy analyst with the Al-Shabaka,[15] a Palestinian policy network. He sponsored the establishment of We Are Not Numbers in early 2015.[16] Conceived by American journalist Pam Bailey under the umbrella of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, the project was launched for young adults in the Gaza Strip 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 stereotypes about Palestinians.

Early life and education

Ramy Abdu holds a PhD and MRes 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,[7][17] Abdu worked as a project and investment coordinator for the World Bank and other internationally funded projects aiming at tackling the economic and humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territories.[5][6]

Activism

Abdu was the assistant director and Palestine Office Manager for Council for European Palestinian Relations,[18][19] an organisation described by The Independent as "a Belgian non-profit organisation that lobbies on behalf of the Hamas-led Gaza Government."[20] He was on the board of trustees of the International platform of NGOs working for Palestine.[21]

Abdu was the media coordinator for the Freedom Flotilla II.[22]

Published works

Abdu authored and co-authored several publications, including The Influence of Minority Shareholder Protection on Equity Market Development,[23] a book published by Google Books, Escaping the Escape: Toward Solutions for the Humanitarian Migration Crisis,[5] a book published by Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.) in 2017, in which he analysed Palestinians’ motives to take deadly risks to attempt to leave the Gaza Strip, The Effect of the 50-day Conflict in Gaza on Children: A Descriptive Study, published by the Lancet.,[24] and As MENA States Grow Increasingly Repressive, Businesses Should Lead Reform, published on the Journal of Political Risk,[25] in which he analysed businesses' responsibility of challenging repressive policies and human rights violations in the MENA region. Abdu's published works also appear on University of Oxford,[26][27] London School of Economics,[28]OpenDemocracy,[29] Middle East Eye[30] and Insight Turkey.[31][dead link‍]

References

  1. ^ "Gaza to propose 'water corridor' to Turkey, sources".
  2. ^ "The Gaza Gas Deal". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  3. ^ "ALRAY-Palestinian Media Agency-ALRAY". alray.ps. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  4. ^ Abdu, Ramy (2020-01-02). "Middle East Banks Neglect Human Rights Implications of their Business Practices". Middle East Centre. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  5. ^ a b c Escaping the Escape: Toward Solutions for the Humanitarian Migration Crisis. Berlin: Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.). 2017. p. 349.
  6. ^ a b "Dr. Ramy Abdu – IPNGO". Retrieved 2019-07-13.[dead link‍]
  7. ^ a b Aldabbour, Belal. "Gaza: '100,000 hours of isolation'". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  8. ^ "Flotilla sends a concrete message of hope for many Gazans". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  9. ^ "Rights group calls Israel's actions 'system of structural violence'". Middle East Eye édition française (in French). Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  10. ^ London, Palestinian Return Centre-. "Dutch Authorities Applaud 15th Palestinians in Europe Conference". prc.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  11. ^ "Euro-Med Report Highlights Israel's Destruction of EU-funded Projects in Palestine". Palestine Chronicle. 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  12. ^ Euro-Med Monitor (2017-06-20), Ramy Abdu's statement at the Human Rights Council on Israeli human rights violations in Jerusalem., retrieved 2019-07-13
  13. ^ Euro-Med Monitor (2017-09-11), Ramy Abdu, Euro-Med's chairman, comments on the situation of human rights in Yemen from HRC-Aljazeera, retrieved 2019-07-13
  14. ^ Observer, Euromid. "UN must ensure that Palestinians achieve self-determination". Euro-Mid. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  15. ^ "Ramy Abdu, Author at Al-Shabaka". Al-Shabaka. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  16. ^ "We Are Not Numbers! || About Us". wearenotnumbers.org. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  17. ^ "Rights group calls Israel's actions 'system of structural violence'". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  18. ^ "Our Team". CEPR. Archived from the original on 2011-12-29. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  19. ^ "Our Team". CEPR. Archived from the original on 2016-03-14. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  20. ^ "Clare Short at risk of arrest in Israel, warns defence minister Moshe Ya'alon". The Independent. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  21. ^ "Board Of Trustees". international platform of NGOs working for Palestine. Archived from the original on 9 November 2018.
  22. ^ "رامي عبدو: "تخفيف حدة الحصار على غزة يؤكد نجاح مهمة أسطول الحرية"" (in Arabic). DW. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  23. ^ Abdu, Ramy S. (2012). The Influence of Minority Shareholder Protection on Equity Market Development.
  24. ^ Elessi, Khamis; Elmokhallalati, Yousuf; Abdo, Ramy; Alser, Osaid (2017). "The Effect of the 50-day Conflict in Gaza on Children: A Descriptive Study". The Lancet. 390: S11. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32062-7. S2CID 54283745. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
  25. ^ admin (14 August 2019). "As MENA States Grow Increasingly Repressive, Businesses Should Lead Reform". Retrieved 2019-08-16.
  26. ^ "COVID-19 pandemic exposes cost of MENA governments' lack of human rights standards for businesses". Oxford Human Rights Hub. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  27. ^ "Saudi Arabia must protect financial rights of migrant workers". Oxford Human Rights Hub. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  28. ^ August 27th; 2019|Featured; Comments, Research|0 (2019-08-27). "As MENA States Grow Increasingly Repressive, Businesses Should Lead Reform". Middle East Centre. Retrieved 2020-01-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  29. ^ "Ramy Abdu". OpenDemocracy.
  30. ^ "Ramy Abdu". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  31. ^ Abdu, Ramy (2021-09-21). "Israeli Persecution in Occupied Jerusalem: Physical and Structural Violence Employed to Change Jerusalemites' Identity". Insight Turkey (in Turkish). doi:10.25253/99.2021233.2. S2CID 244204370.