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Foreign Policy choses Rami Abdul Rahman to be within FP’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2014

 

 

Foreign Policy had published its own annual special issue featuring FP’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2014. The top 100 leading global thinkers have been distributed within 10 categories, where they have been chosen from several countries in different continentals.

 

The magazine “FP”, issued in U.S.A, has chosen 15 advocated out 100 thinkers from different Arab, European, Asian, African and American countries, where it identifies the advocates by saying that “ these thinkers support forgotten victims of sexual violence, protect civilians targeted in internecine violence, count casualties in the fog of war, and demand legal protections for the world’s most vulnerable migrants. Often, these men and women—scholars, activists, and religious leaders among them—do this work at their own peril and pay the price, landing in court or prison in some of the world’s most repressive countries. For all of them, however, the risk is worth the possible rewards.”

 

 

Rami Abdul Rahman ranked second within the category of advocates. FP talks about the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Right, “Abdul Rahman (whose real name is Osama Suleiman) has been at it for longer: Through his Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Abdul Rahman, who is in exile, has monitored every death and military development in Syria since the war began, becoming a crucial information source for international human rights groups, journalists, and the U.S. Defense Department, among others. And his commitment knows no allegiances: When the United States bombed Syria, Abdul Rahman’s group counted those casualties too.”

 

In addition to, FP mentioned some notable facts about Rami Abdul Rahaman “Abdul Rahman, who runs a clothing shop by day, uses 230 informants to populate information for his website. While he has been in exile for 13 years, members of his wife’s family have been arrested and beaten. He continues to receive threatening text messages, and today some members of his family will not speak to him because of his stance against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”

 

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The following names are chosen by FP to be with the list of advocates:

 

  • Hanna Hopko (activist/ Ukraine) for carrying Ukraine’s revolution beyond the Maidan.
  • Hagai El-Ad (director of B’Tselem) for documenting atrocities against all odds.
  • Zainab Bangura (U.N. special representative on sexual violence in conflict/ New York City) for shining a light on the forgotten victims of wartime rape.
  • Bernard Kinvi and Patrick Nainangue (Catholic priests/ Central African Republic) for doing God’s work amid hellish conflict.
  • Lena Klimova and Yevgeny Vitishko (activists/ Russia) for training the Olympic spotlight on Russian dissent.
  • Iris Yassmin Barrios Auguilar (judge/ Guatemala) for relentlessly pursuing justice.
  • Ilham Tohti (economist, activist/ China) for being the conscience of Uighur people.
  • Biram Dah Abeid (abolitionist/ Mauritania) for championing abolition in a slavery stronghold.
  • Wendi Young (President, Kids in Need of Defense/ Washington, D.C.) for giving young migrants their day in court.
  • Maritza Asprilla Gruz, Gloria Amparo and Mery Medina (activists/ Colombia) for spreading their wings to protect and empower women.
  • Xiao Meili (feminist/ China) for bringing gender-based violence out of the closet.

 

 

 

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