This eNews has news from DTP alumni – profiles of DTP alumnus Pervez Siddique and DTP trainer Henry Zwartz, and news and updates on human rights and from the region.

DTP Trainer Profile

Henry Zwartz is an award-winning journalist who recently trained in a special DTP human rights and advocacy program for migrant and refugee community leaders in Australia. Interested in the intersection between law and media, and their use as a force for good, Henry currently works for a politics and foreign policy think tank and as a freelance journalist with Australian TV Network, SBS.

DTP Alumni Profile

Pervez is the founder and executive director of Bangladesh’s Films 4 Peace (F4P) Foundation, a leading national peacebuilding organisation based in Bangladesh, committed to fostering a peaceful society through innovative and artistic activism, strategic communications, and research.

DTP alumnus Aslam Abd Jalil visited the Diplomacy Training Program sharing his progress in completing his PhD studies and advocating for refugee and migrant worker rights in Malaysia. 

A regional Asia-Pacific training course on migrant workers’ rights and advocacy in the Asia-Pacific for individuals who work for and with NGOs/CSOs who have the commitment and capacity to apply the training to their work for the rights of migrant workers.

DTP is calling for applications for an Administration and Office Coordinator to join its small team.

This annual, comprehensive human rights and advocacy course is the longest established human rights training program held in the region. It builds knowledge of international human rights standards and the UN system and skills in strategic advocacy. The program will build practical links between advocates in the region.

After being delayed by COVID, 29 human rights advocates from the region participated in the 30th Annual Program in Bangkok, 23 January - 3rd February.