NRI Appointed Kennedy Center Director

The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights has appointed Non Resident Indian Monika Kalra Verma as its new director.

This prestigious appointment is recognition of Monika’s crucial role in adopting innovative economic and social rights concepts into the centre’s most successful programmes.

The Kennedy Center plays a crucial role in working with human
rights actvists and supports them in their initiatives in social
justice campaigns.
Monika Verma feels honoured to work for the Kennedy Centre in
a Director’s capacity, as it affords the opportunity to work with the most “inspiring” and “innovative” human rights activists in the world.

Monika’s role would be to administer the centre’s daily operations, coordinating with the staff, board members, the Kennedy family and volunteers and work on advocacy programmes which assist the centre’s partners, the winners of the Human Rights Award conferred by the Kennedy Centre.

Monika’s role includes the management of the annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award which honors human rights defenders.

A graduate of the University of California and human rights
lawyer herself, Monika contributes to the Harvard based Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud’s Health and Human Rights journal.

She has also served as a legal officer at the UN international
criminal tribunal at the Hague, Netherlands.
Monika’s new appointment is hailed as another milestone achieved by NRIs abroad.