2023-2024 Henigson Fellow Advocating for Gender Equality at Clooney Basis

Rebecca Gore is wearing a red top and navy pants and is smiling into the camera. She is standing in front of the Harvard Law School Library. — *Rebecca Gore LLM’23 in entrance of the Harvard Regulation Faculty Library. Credit score: Lorin Granger.*

The Human Rights Program is happy to current its 2023-2024 Henigson Fellow Rebecca Gore LLM’23.

Rebecca is a South African human rights lawyer and scholar. For the 2023-24 educational 12 months, she will likely be a Henigson Fellow with the Clooney Basis for Justice’s new initiative on Waging Justice for Girls, the place she’s going to concentrate on data-driven strategic litigation and advocacy to reform discriminatory legal guidelines towards girls and promote accountability for gender-based violence in South Africa and Malawi.

Beforehand, Rebecca was the authorized researcher for the Inspecting Choose of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Companies, Justice Edwin Cameron, and a legislation clerk on the Constitutional Courtroom of South Africa within the Chambers of Justice Edwin Cameron, Justice Steven Majiedt, and Justice Nonkosi Mhlantla. She has interned for The Presidency of the Worldwide Prison Courtroom in The Hague and varied public curiosity organizations in South Africa.

Whereas pursuing a Grasp of Legal guidelines at Harvard, Rebecca was a sophisticated medical scholar on the Worldwide Human Rights Clinic and a venture chief for Advocates for Human Rights. Rebecca additionally holds a Bachelor of Legal guidelines diploma (Cum Laude), a Postgraduate Honours diploma in Justice and Transformation (First Class), and a level in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Distinction) from the College of Cape City.

HRP’s post-graduate fellowships are designed to assist launch the careers of scholars who’ve demonstrated nice promise as advocates whereas at HLS. Fellows are positioned with human rights organizations working beneath difficult circumstances. In mild of the ravages accelerated by the pandemic, wars, rising authoritarianism and worldwide inequality, HRP is extra dedicated than ever to supporting the careers of younger professionals dedicated to worldwide human rights and social justice.