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Relation to Future Worlds Center
Irini Anastassiou Irini began working with Future Worlds Center in January 2011 as a social advisor for the Unit for Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture, providing social services to refugees and asylum seekers that were victims of torture. During this time she worked in close collaboration with the legal and social advisors of the UNHCR funded project Strengthening Asylum in Cyprus. Driven from her strong interest on human rights and development, between April and December 2011 she was working in refugee and women organizations in East Africa.
Since January 2012 she has returned to Future Worlds Center as an intern for the Global Education Unit working on projects that aim to promote peace and development education in the eastern Mediterrenean and Sub-Saharan African countries.
As of March, 2012, Irini has assumed an almost full-time job, working together with Kerstin Wittig, Yiannis Laouris and Elia Petridou in the Civil Society Acts Beyond Borders project.
Biography
Irini holds a Bachelor degree on International and European Studies, with specialization on Political Science and Diplomacy, from the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. She then proceeded with a Master in Law (LLM) in Public International Law, from the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, which she received with Distinction. During both her undergraduate and post-graduate studies she concentrated on issues of peace, sustainable development and human rights, with a particular interest on forced migration. For her dissertation she researched and critically evaluated the law and policies on irregular migration in Cyprus.