Reflecting on 2024: Highlights and a Peek Into 2025
Dear alumni,
As the year comes to a close, we want to take a moment to reflect on what we’ve worked on together and to thank you for being an active part of this community. Over the past 12 months, our network of over 4,600 alumni continued to grow—not just in numbers, but in collaboration, support, and shared purpose. Check out this short video!
(also available on Youtube)
Supporting Each Other’s Growth: Through the GCA Careers programme we contributed to equip recent graduates with tools to apply for jobs and advance their human rights careers. We also had a very fruitful mentoring experience, offering not only career advice, but aso hope and resilience in uncertain times.
Advocating for Climate Justice, and having our biggest meetup in years: We collaborated on climate justice and the rights of future generations, forming teams across 7 regions and leading a wide array of activities. This picture is from Buenos Aires, where LATMA Alumni launched an in-school activity, raising students’ awareness about climate justice.
And this picture is from Athens, where we had the largest in-person alumni gathering in years, networked, exchanged ideas with local climate justice actors, and returned to advance our activities.
Learning Together Through Workshops With Right Livelihood Laureates: We explored topics such as LGBTQ+ rights, environmental activism, gender movements, and community learning. You can find some very practical insights and lessons learnt in this booklet.
Contributing to the global discussion around human rights and democratisation through our Human Rights Preparedness Blog, in which 7 regional alumni correspondents authored pieces on diverse topics such as gender and minority rights, the role of technology in enforced disappearances, and human rights defenders in autocratic states.
Celebrating Achievements Through #GCAStories: We highlighted your achievements and fostered networking through. Check the initiative #GCAstories on LinkedIn.
Some Opportunities to Engage In, and a Peek Into 2025:
Small scale Alumni-led Projects: We finished receiving the applications for alumni-led human rights activities. Engaging with alumni from other regions was a crucial requirement of the call…. we look forward to amazing projects in the year ahead.
#ActionAgainstEcocide Photojournalism Contest: The Contest invites you to creatively capture the realities, impacts, and solutions related to environmental degradation and ecocide that is taking place around you. You can take photos or videos that document ecocide around you, and share them with us. Apply here:
Seeking Alumni working in the private sector: Are you working in the business sector? We’re inviting you to join a group of alumni professionals to explore the possibility of working on a collaborative project. Join the group through this form.
GC alumni hub meeting in Amman 30 January 2025:
Are you based in Amman, or do you know of alumni who are based in Amman? There is a very interesting event coming up.
Ending Children Deprivation of Liberty in the Arab Region: From Data to Action, with Manfred Nowak, SG of the Global Campus of Human Rights, and author of the Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty.
Thursday 30 January 2025, from 16:00 to 17:30, Al Farahidi Amphitheatre, Faculty of Arts, University of Jordan, Amman. The event will also include an alumni gathering.
Please fill this form to take part, or share it with other alumni who may be based in Amman.
This has been a year of great human rights challenges, and we want to let you know that the GCA is here for you. If you wish to collaborate with other alumni on human rights-related work, reach out to us. You can reply to this newsletter or reach out to us on LinkedIn or through info@globalcampusalumni.org
Thank you again for being part of the GCA community. Keep in touch, and we wish you a great year ahead.
The Global Campus Alumni