Fatou Jagne

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Fatou Jagne ( Fatou Jagne Senghore or Jagne Senghor ; born in Banjul ) is a Gambian human rights activist.

Life

Jagnes father was Senegalese, her mother Gambier. She first grew up in Banjul , then attended elementary school in Dakar and graduated from the Lycéé Sénégalais de Banjul in 1991 with a baccalauréat with the highest grade.

1991/1992 she studied at the Cheikh Anta Diop University and could use a grant from the Senegalese Ministry of Education at the University of Toulouse I an undergraduate degree in comparative law ( Comparative Law ) acquire focusing on English law. She also has a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Economic and Communication Law and a Masters in International Law ( International Law ), University of Toulouse I. After her master's degree she was 1997/1998 Fellow at the University of Toulouse.

From 1999 to 2001 she worked as a program officer at the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) in Banjul (Gambia). After student protests in Gambia ended violently in April 2000, in which 14 students were killed by state security forces, she co-founded the Coalition of Human Rights Defenders. During this period she also worked as a freelance producer and presenter of French-language news for the Gambia Radio & Television Service (GRTS).

From February 2002 she worked for the human rights organization Article 19 , which works internationally for freedom of expression and information . First she was Africa Program Officer in Johannesburg (South Africa), from 2004 in Dakar (Senegal).From 2005 to 2011 she worked for the organization in the global network International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) and investigated restrictions on freedom of expression in Tunisia with the Tunisia Monitoring Group . Jagne founded the West African branch of Article 19 in Senegal in 2010 and became its director.

From 2002 to 2005 she worked for the African Commission on Human Rights and the Rights of the Peoples (ACHPR) on the implementation of a Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa with and for the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression in Africa ( Special Rapporteur on FoE in Africa ).

She was also the chair of the African Platform on access to Information (APAI) and works for Amnesty International in the regional group for Africa.

One focus of her work in Gambia is the attempt to create the necessary framework for free press coverage and freedom of expression after the end of Yahya Jammeh's dictatorial government . For example, she advised the Minister for Information, Demba A. Jawo , in the Adama Barrow's cabinet .

Jagne is married to Alasan Senghore from Gambia , who works for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and has two children with him.

Awards

In April 2012 it was announced that she would receive the French National Order of Merit Ordre national du Mérite in the level of knight ( Chevalièr ). The award ceremony took place in April 2018.

In June 2019 she received the West African Shield Award from the Ugandan organizations Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRDN) and DefendDefenders for her commitment to human rights in West Africa .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Pa Nderry Mbai: Gambia: Gambia's Fatou Jagne-Senghor Awarded National Order of Merit by the President of France. In: Freedom Newspaper. April 17, 2018, Retrieved June 25, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Fatou Jagne, SeneGambian Iron Lady. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Prominent Gambian Activist Receives Prestigious Human Rights Award. In: Jollofnews. June 15, 2019, Retrieved June 25, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ a b c d Prominent Gambian Activist Receives Prestigious Human Rights Award. In: Jollofnews. June 15, 2019, Retrieved June 25, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ a b c d team. Retrieved June 25, 2019 (American English).
  6. ↑ Fatou Jagne, SeneGambian Iron Lady. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Pa Nderry Mbai: Gambia: Gambia's Fatou Jagne-Senghor Awarded National Order of Merit by the President of France. In: Freedom Newspaper. April 17, 2018, Retrieved June 25, 2019 (American English).
  8. ↑ Fatou Jagne. April 20, 2018, accessed June 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jagne, Fatou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jagne Senghore, Fatou; Jagne Senghor, Fatou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Banjul