“My name is Quanita Khan. I am an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, majoring in legal history and philosophy. I believe my current experience and knowledge of international humanitarian law, human rights violations, and the implementation gaps of human rights at the country level make me a good candidate as the 2025 Global Delegate.
My academic research has focused on analyzing the role of leading political institutions in shaping the experience of vulnerable populations, including socioeconomic, national security, public and foreign policies. As an aspiring international human rights lawyer, specializing in refugee children’s rights, I want to understand how the currency policy gaps in international humanitarian law can be prioritized to eliminate the existing human rights violations against children in conflict zones. Thus, I have continuously leveraged my available opportunities to learn more about human rights violations against the Indigenous Peoples in Canada as the Director of Human Rights at UofTPolicython, the Co-Director of Research at FERA UofT, and the communications intern at the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada (IPPNWC); and refugee children in USA and Italy as a Policy Researcher for the Center of International Security and Economic Strategy and Human Rights Researcher for the European Student Think Tank.
As the Canadian Voice of Women and IPPNWC Delegate to the 69th Commission on the Status of Women, I was able to attend the UN Security Council Meeting #9878 on the current situation in Sudan. I was able to hear UNICEF Executive Director Katherine Russell and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International Secretary General Chris Lockyear discuss the humanitarian catastrophe currently happening in Sudan from the civilian perspective. Inspired by them, I want to be the 2025 Global Delegate of Amnesty International Canada so that I can act as a bridge between civilians and international organizations, communicating the objective reality that allows and perpetuates human rights violations to the organizations responsible for eliminating them.”
