Ramy Abdu

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Ramy Abdu
رامي عبده
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Abdu in 2023
NationalityPalestinian
EducationPhD in Law and Finance from the Manchester Metropolitan University

Ramy Abdu (Arabic: رامي عبده) (or Ramy Abdo [1] ) is a Palestinian financial expert [2] [3] and human rights advocate [4] [5] who was born in the Gaza Strip. He is the founder and chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, established in 2011. [6] [7] As the chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] Abdu delivered several oral statements and took part in different events at the United Nations Human Rights Council, addressing human rights violations in the Middle East and North Africa Region. [13] [14] [15]

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Early life and education

Ramy Abdu holds a PhD and MRes in Law and Finance from the Manchester Metropolitan University, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Jordan. Abdu worked as a project and investment coordinator for the World Bank and other internationally funded projects aiming at tackling the economic and humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territories. [6] [7]

Activism

In 2011 Abdu founded and became the chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. [8] [6] [16]

Abdu was the assistant director and Palestine Office Manager for Council for European Palestinian Relations, and was on the board of trustees of the International platform of NGOs working for Palestine. [17] [18] In 2011 he was the media coordinator for the Freedom Flotilla II. [19] He is a policy analyst with the Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian policy network. [20]

Abdu sponsored the establishment of We Are Not Numbers in early 2015. [21] Conceived by American journalist Pam Bailey and co-founded by journalist Ahmed Alnaouq under the umbrella of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, the project was launched for young adults in the Gaza Strip and designed both to help them share their narratives (and those of their people) in their own words with the Western (English-speaking) world to counter stereotypes about Palestinians. [22]

Killing of sister's family by Israeli strikes

In March 2025, Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed Abdu's sister alongside her entire family. On X, Abdu reported that the attack claimed the lives of his sister, Nesreen, her husband Mohammed Daoud al-Jamasi, and their three children, Ubaida, Omar, and Layan. He added that Ubaida’s wife, Malak, and their children, Siwar and Mohammed, were also killed. [23]

Published works

Abdu has authored or co-authored several publications: a chapter, "The Gaza Strip: Reversing the Desire to Flee" in Escaping the Escape: Toward Solutions for the Humanitarian Migration Crisis, a book published by Bertelsmann Stiftung in 2017, in which he analysed Palestinians’ motives to take deadly risks to attempt to leave the Gaza Strip; [24] "The Effect of the 50-day Conflict in Gaza on Children: A Descriptive Study", published by the Lancet ; [25] and "As MENA States Grow Increasingly Repressive, Businesses Should Lead Reform", published by the Journal of Political Risk, [26] in which he analysed businesses' responsibility of challenging repressive policies and human rights violations in the MENA region.

Abdu's published works also appear on University of Oxford Law Faculty's blog Oxford Human Rights Hub, [27] [28] OpenDemocracy , [29] Middle East Eye [30] and Insight Turkey . [31]

References

  1. ↑ "Gaza to propose 'water corridor' to Turkey, sources".
  2. ↑ "The Gaza Gas Deal". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  3. ↑ "ALRAY-Palestinian Media Agency-ALRAY". alray.ps. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  4. ↑ Abdu, Ramy (2020-01-02). "Middle East Banks Neglect Human Rights Implications of their Business Practices". Middle East Centre. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  5. ↑ "Five more Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli air raids on Gaza". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
  6. 1 2 3 Escaping the Escape: Toward Solutions for the Humanitarian Migration Crisis. Berlin: Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.). 2017. p. 349.
  7. 1 2 "Dr. Ramy Abdu – IPNGO". Archived from the original on 2019-07-13. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  8. 1 2 Aldabbour, Belal. "Gaza: '100,000 hours of isolation'". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  9. ↑ "Flotilla sends a concrete message of hope for many Gazans". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  10. ↑ "Rights group calls Israel's actions 'system of structural violence'". Middle East Eye édition française (in French). Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  11. ↑ London, Palestinian Return Centre-. "Dutch Authorities Applaud 15th Palestinians in Europe Conference". prc.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  12. ↑ "Euro-Med Report Highlights Israel's Destruction of EU-funded Projects in Palestine". Palestine Chronicle. 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  13. ↑ Euro-Med Monitor (2017-06-20), Ramy Abdu's statement at the Human Rights Council on Israeli human rights violations in Jerusalem. , retrieved 2019-07-13
  14. ↑ Euro-Med Monitor (2017-09-11), Ramy Abdu, Euro-Med's chairman, comments on the situation of human rights in Yemen from HRC-Aljazeera , retrieved 2019-07-13
  15. ↑ Observer, Euromid. "UN must ensure that Palestinians achieve self-determination". Euro-Mid. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  16. ↑ "Rights group calls Israel's actions 'system of structural violence'". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  17. ↑ "Our Team". CEPR. Archived from the original on 2011-12-29. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  18. ↑ "Board Of Trustees". international platform of NGOs working for Palestine. Archived from the original on 9 November 2018.
  19. ↑ "رامي عبدو: "تخفيف حدة الحصار على غزة يؤكد نجاح مهمة أسطول الحرية"" (in Arabic). DW. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  20. ↑ "Ramy Abdu, Author at Al-Shabaka". Al-Shabaka. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  21. ↑ "We Are Not Numbers! || About Us". wearenotnumbers.org. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  22. ↑ Fox, Killian (2025-04-13). "Journalist Ahmed Alnaouq: 'It's our duty to make Gaza's stories immortal'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-09-15.
  23. ↑ "Israeli strikes kill family of prominent Palestinian human rights monitor". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
  24. ↑ Abdu, Ramy (2017). "The Gaza Strip: Reversing the Desire to Flee". In Serfozo, Barbara (ed.). Escaping the Escape: Toward Solutions for the Humanitarian Migration Crisis. Gütersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung. pp. 197–206. ISBN   978-3-86793-780-1.
  25. ↑ Elessi, Khamis; Elmokhallalati, Yousuf; Abdo, Ramy; Alser, Osaid (2017). "The Effect of the 50-day Conflict in Gaza on Children: A Descriptive Study" . The Lancet. 390: S11. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32062-7. S2CID   54283745 . Retrieved 2019-07-14.
  26. ↑ Abdu, Ramy (August 2019). "As MENA States Grow Increasingly Repressive, Businesses Should Lead Reform". Journal of Political Risk. 7 (8). Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  27. ↑ "COVID-19 pandemic exposes cost of MENA governments' lack of human rights standards for businesses". Oxford Human Rights Hub. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  28. ↑ "Saudi Arabia must protect financial rights of migrant workers". Oxford Human Rights Hub. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  29. ↑ "Ramy Abdu". OpenDemocracy.
  30. ↑ "Ramy Abdu". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  31. ↑ Abdu, Ramy (2021-09-21). "Israeli Persecution in Occupied Jerusalem: Physical and Structural Violence Employed to Change Jerusalemites' Identity" . Insight Turkey (in Turkish). doi:10.25253/99.2021233.2. S2CID   244204370.
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