Human Rights Fellowship Program

2009 Fellow

The Human Rights Fellowship Program for Lusophone Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde) is part of the Conectas’ Global South Program.

Each year, since 2004, Conectas receives activists from Portuguese-speaking African countries to expand their academic and practical knowledge on human rights in Brazil. This fellowship, part of the Open Society Justice Initiative Fellows Program, aims to strengthen the work of the participants in their countries of origin and to connect them with other human rights defenders from the Global
South.

During the five months they spend in Brazil, they take courses at the São Paulo Catholic University (PUCSP) and work as interns at other Brazilian NGOs. Once back in their home countries, they apply the knowledge acquired in Brazil to develop projects in various fields of human rights.

From 2004 to 2010, 35 activists from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique have taken part in the fellowship program.