A Voice For the Voiceless

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The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice

Janet Rabin and Women in Black Network from Serbia

Janet will be working as a 2008 Peace Fellow with the Women in Black Network from Serbia. She will be contributing to their mission of nonviolent resistance to militarism, war, sexism and nationalism through ICT support and outreach. The Women in Black Network from Serbia promotes respect across cultures, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations and ideologies, and instigate the active participation of women in the peace process.

Janet’s love of Slavic and Balkan culture was sparked by a summer school Russian class she took in elementary school. Her work with Women in Black will combine several of her interests: the women’s peace movement, education and human rights advocacy in post-conflict zones, and post-communist transitions.

A Master's student at Georgetown University concentrating in international development, Janet’s work and studies have thus far focused on forced migration and refugee resettlement. She did her undergraduate degree in international relations and French at Mount Holyoke College and spent a month studying at the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan studies in Sarnath, India. After living and working for a year in Edmonton, Canada, Janet returned to her hometown of Tucson, AZ to work as Community Outreach Coordinator at the International Rescue Committee. During her time there she had the opportunity to work with refugees from Bosnia, Russia, Somalia, Sudan, Liberia, and Iraq.

She is currently interning with Refugee Council USA, a coalition of U.S. non-governmental organizations focused on refugee protection. She is looking forward to working with and learning from the Women in Black, and is especially inspired by their commitment to peace, even in a climate of growing Serbian nationalism and isolationism.

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