Ramy Abdu

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Ramy Abdu (Arabic: رامي عبده) (or Ramy Abdo[1]) is a Palestinian financial expert[2][3] and human rights advocate[4][non-primary source needed] who was born in the Gaza Strip.

[16] Conceived by American journalist Pam Bailey 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 and bust stereotypes about Palestinians.

Before he served as the chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor,[7][17] 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.

in 2017, in which he analysed Palestinians’ motives to take deadly risks to attempt to leave the Gaza Strip, The Effect of the 50-day Conflict in Gaza on Children: A Descriptive Study, published by the Lancet.,[24] and As MENA States Grow Increasingly Repressive, Businesses Should Lead Reform, published on the Journal of Political Risk,[25] 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,[26][27] London School of Economics,[28]OpenDemocracy,[29] Middle East Eye[30] and Insight Turkey.