Edmar Paulo Badilé Nhaga

Edmar Paulo Badilé Nhaga is a human rights activist who has worked with the Guinean Human Rights League since he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Bissau in 2010. From 2011 to 2013, Edmar was the coordinator of human rights at the Center of Access to Justice of Canchungo that covers the entire north region of Cacheu. Edmar Paulo Badilé Nhaga worked mainly in the field of human rights through community awareness and monitoring of the human rights situation with particular focus on situation of women and children. Currently he is the president of the Autonomous sector of Bissau of Guinean League of Human Rights. After the Washington Fellowship, Edmar hopes that his leadership skills will be strengthened to continue to work with the tools acquired in the promotion, protection and defense of human rights, especially for the most vulnerable members of his society, including women, children and detainees or those arbitrarily arrested. Edmar was one of 100 Fellows competitively selected to participate in an 8-week internship in the United States following the Mandela Washington Fellowship academic institute. He interned at Partners for Democratic Change in August-September 2014. Stayed in Africa.