{"id":27035,"date":"2021-06-28T15:57:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=27035"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:08","slug":"an-interview-with-poet-and-human-rights-defender-ketty-nivyabandi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2021\/an-interview-with-poet-and-human-rights-defender-ketty-nivyabandi\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Poet and Human Rights Defender Ketty Nivyabandi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        An Interview with Poet and Human Rights Defender Ketty Nivyabandi\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft wp-image-27036 size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/KettyNivyabandi_Bio_-002.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/KettyNivyabandi_Bio_-002.png 225w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/KettyNivyabandi_Bio_-002-160x221.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ketty Nivyabandi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the <strong>Activist in Residence Interview Series<\/strong>, The Department of Law and Legal Studies&#8217; Activist in Residence, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/rehana-hashmi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rehana Hashmi<\/a>, and Feminist Advocate and Educator Donna Johnson, interviewed poet and human rights defender <strong>Ketty Nivyabandi<\/strong> to learn more about her activist journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"about-ketty-nivyabandi\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Ketty Nivyabandi<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ketty joined Amnesty International Canada (English Section) as Secretary General in October 2020. She is the primary spokesperson for the Branch and holds responsibility for the development and delivery of Amnesty International\u2019s human rights work in Canada. A global human rights activist and advocate, Ketty holds in-depth and lived expertise on refugee issues and the intersections of gender, race, democracy, and human rights. Prior to seeking asylum in Canada in 2015, she faced police violence as a leading organizer of women\u2019s peaceful protests for democratic change in her country, Burundi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/activist-in-residence-program\/#interviewswithactivists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the interview<\/a> to hear Ketty Nivyabandi speak about her experiences mobilizing a group of women for peaceful protests in response to the 2015 Burundi constitutional crisis, the consequences of state repression and exile, the role of women\u2019s liberation in countering oppression, and the importance of human rights activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"about-the-activist-in-residence-program\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Activist in Residence Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The AiR Program is an initiative to host a human rights activist in the Department of Law and Legal Studies each year. The AiR Program is designed to recognize the important role activists play in advancing the goals of protecting and fostering human rights.&nbsp; The program provides an intellectual home for a human rights activist, while also providing our students and faculty members the opportunity to learn from someone with on the ground experience fighting to protect human rights. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/activist-in-residence-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about the program and interview series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Activist in Residence Interview Series, The Department of Law and Legal Studies&#8217; Activist in Residence, Rehana Hashmi, and Feminist Advocate and Educator Donna Johnson, interviewed poet and human rights defender Ketty Nivyabandi to learn more about her activist journey. About Ketty Nivyabandi Ketty joined Amnesty International Canada (English Section) as Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[550,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27041,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27035\/revisions\/27041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}