DTP Community
Since 1990, DTP has grown into a community that brings together DTP alumni, trainers, partners and supporters for human rights in Asia and the Pacific. Programs are held in partnership with alumni and their organisations and alumni return to teach on DTP’s courses. Trainers donate their time and share their expertise. DTP’s loyal supporters invest in supporting the individuals who are at the heart of human rights movements.
Latest Community News
Community news includes latest profiles appearing in the DTP Newsletter selected from the 4,000+ DTP alumni, and reports of events focused on DTP alumni including workshop and training programs.
DTP Alumnus Basim Shamaon is a respected leader and advocate for his community. Living in Sydney he is Chair of the Refugee Support Network (RSN) for New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
DTP alumna Dr Asma Abbasi is working with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to promote and protect the rights of women, and to develop women’s skills and leadership in Bangladesh’s readymade garment (RMG) sector.
Francelino Dos Santos Serra is a Timorese human rights defender and rights educator. At present he is working as an assistant lecturer and a human rights project officer at the National University of Timor Leste (UNTL).
DTP alumna Tharushi Fernando is a human rights advocate and an attorney at law at the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka where she focuses her work on public law, minority rights, labour rights, and accountability for human rights violations, including cases related to police custodial killings, torture, and labour rights violations.
DTP alumna Tharushi Fernando is a human rights advocate and an attorney at law at the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka where she focuses her work on public law, minority rights, labour rights, and accountability for human rights violations, including cases related to police custodial killings, torture, and labour rights violations.
DTP alumnus Victor Mambor is a journalist and film-maker in Jayapura, West Papua, Indonesia. He is the co-founder and an editor at Jubi (Tabloid Jubi), a leading independent media outlet based in Jayapura, West Papua, Indonesia. Victor is also the producer of the documentary Pig Feat, which chronicles the struggle of indigenous people in West Papua defending their ancestral lands from sugar plantations.
DTP alumni Prakash Khadka is a dedicated human rights advocate and development practitioner in Nepal who for over 15 years has been working over issues such as child rights, migration and social justice. He is the Founder of Peace Himalaya, a not for profit organization in Nepal which is committed to foster peace, justice, and human dignity in society.
Noha Roukoss is the advocacy manager at Caritas Lebanon, where she leads Caritas’s national advocacy strategy on migration, protection, and humanitarian policy. Noha oversees integrated advocacy campaigns, produces evidence-based policy briefs, and ensures that frontline realities are translated into useful policy demands.
Mory Sar is a Cambodian human rights and development practitioner currently working as a Program Coordinator at DanChurchAid (DCA). At DCA, Mory manages grants with partner organisations working on land rights, press freedom, digital rights, and local governance issues while monitoring Cambodia’s regulatory environment for civil society organisations.
Puangchomphu Suwansirisilp is currently working as the Director of the Social Technology Institute (STI), a Bangkok-based non-profit advancing social innovation, cybersecurity awareness, civic engagement, and digital rights across Thailand and the Mekong region. Nearly 20 years since her own experience of DTP, Puangchomphu is investing in building new skills and knowledge of young leaders in Thailand and the Mekong in this critical dimension of human rights.
Anna Takluem came to Australia as a refugee from Myanmar escaping Myanmar’s brutal military. She works as a Multicultural Education Aide at St Dominic’s Primary School in Melton, Melbourne, serving as a vital bridge between the school and families with Myanmar backgrounds. She also serves as Secretary of the Victoria Matu Chin Community, supporting diaspora families in Australia as well as displaced Chin people in refugee camps and those internally displaced following Myanmar’s 2021 military coup.
Alumni
Since 1990, DTP has trained over 4,000 human rights defenders and community advocates from over 90 countries from across the Asia-Pacific and MENA region. These DTP alumni go on to work for human rights in different ways and over many years. Their work stretches over decades of human rights advocacy in the region.
Trainers
DTP’s trainers include respected and experienced human rights academics and practitioners. Their pro-bono contributions affirm the value they see in building the skills and knowledge of those who are defending and promoting human rights in their societies. DTP alumni are welcomed back as trainers. DTP is profoundly grateful to all those who contribute to its programs for their generosity in sharing their knowledge and experience.
Partners
DTP works in partnership with other organisations that share DTP’s commitment to investing in building the knowledge, skills and networks of human rights defenders and their organisations. DTP’s partners provide guidance on training needs and strategy, course participants, content and logistics.
Funders
DTP relies on project grants, philanthropic support from individuals and foundations, and training fee income to provide practical training to committed and courageous individuals working on the frontline of efforts to build societies that respect human dignity and human rights.
In Memoriam
DTP remembers with appreciation those individuals who have contributed to the work of DTP and to building movements for human rights and dignity in different ways.
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