Three Years of Sudan Crisis: Advocacy for Women and Girls on the Frontline
The discussion will be moderated by Sophie Neiman, an award-winning journalist covering conflict and human rights across East and Central Africa for outlets such as Al Jazeera and the BBC. The panel features distinguished specialists across legal, investigative, and humanitarian fields:
- Nathaniel A. Raymond is the Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at the Yale School of Public Health and a Lecturer in the Department of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. His expertise focuses on the health and security implications of forced displacement and the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) to protect vulnerable populations in armed conflict. Under his leadership, the Yale HRL has used satellite imagery and open-source data to document atrocities in Sudan and the forced relocation of Ukrainian children, evidence that has been presented to the UN Security Council.
- Jehanne Henry is a distinguished human rights lawyer and advocate focusing on armed conflict and transitional justice. Currently, she serves as the Sudan Country Director at The Reckoning Project, where she leads investigations into war crimes to build accountability for atrocities in the current conflict. Between 2007 and 2020, she was a researcher and director in Human Rights Watch’s Africa division, leading numerous fact-finding missions and authoring dozens of influential reports.
- Quscondy Abdulshafi is a specialist in inclusive governance and civil society building with over a decade of experience advancing human rights across Africa and the United States. He is currently a Board Member at Peace Direct and has held senior advisory roles at Freedom House. His activism began in 2003 at the University of Khartoum, where he co-founded the Darfur Students Movement in response to the genocide.
- Nikkie Lyubarsky is a Research Associate at The Soufan Center, where she focuses on hybrid warfare, global security, and foreign policy, particularly concerning Russia and Eastern Europe. Her professional background includes a consulting practicum with the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center focusing on AI-synthetic media and work with the United Nations Foundation on the Global Digital Compact. She holds a Master of Science in Global Affairs from New York University, with a concentration in transnational security and data analytics.
- Gabrielle Tejada is a Research Associate at The Soufan Center, focusing her research on geopolitics and global security issues related to energy and climate change. She holds a Master of Science in Global Affairs from New York University, where she specialized in Energy and the Environment, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Miami.
Sophie Neiman is an award-winning freelance journalist specializing in conflict, politics, and human rights across East and Central Africa. Based in Kampala, Uganda, she has reported extensively from across the region, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, South Sudan, Mozambique, and Rwanda. Her dedicated reporting on women in the DRC earned her the prestigious 2025 Gaby Rado Award from Amnesty International, and she has been recognized as a finalist for the Stringer Foundation prize.
Join the Discussion GHRD invites human rights advocates, policymakers, and the global public to amplify the voices of Sudanese survivors. Together with experts from organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA), we will explore how to secure a future of justice for Sudan.
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