With Viadrina knowledge into the world - graduation ceremony of the Master's programme IHL

Among those present was Haider Ali, managing director of a fabric trading company in Bangladesh, who is planning to open a branch in Germany in the near future. Maxwell Boamah Amofa from Ghana works as a journalist and research officer at the West Africa Transitional Justice Centre. Sitting with him at the closing ceremony was Vaishali Singh, who campaigns for the rights of migrant workers at the Qatar Centre for Peace and Democracy. Fatoumatta Juldeh Camara, who celebrated her graduation from Viadrina with her husband and young daughter, works at a court in Gambia. Human rights lawyer Nadia Firdous came from Kashmir to study at Viadrina.

In addition to them, Jessica Bade from the USA and Christine Stöckl from Germany also completed their master's degrees this summer semester. Nigerian lawyer Abayomi Medemaku received a Diploma of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

Nelly Sarpong returned to the Viadrina as the keynote speaker. The lawyer and author completed her IHL Master's degree at Viadrina in 2018. She presented her personal life story, which she published under the title "The Tapestry of a German-Born Ghanaian". After her studies, Nelly Sarpong worked at the Ghanaian embassy in Berlin. Today, she is a writer and creative entrepreneur, hosts a radio programme in Düsseldorf and is involved in the European Christian Political Youth Network (ECPYouth).

Translated by DeepL and edited