{"id":94490,"date":"2026-02-19T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/bb-dabos-daughter-awa-appointed-un-human-rights-deputy"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:55:48","slug":"bb-dabos-daughter-awa-appointed-un-human-rights-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bb-dabos-daughter-awa-appointed-un-human-rights-deputy","title":{"rendered":"BB Dabo&#8217;S Daughter Awa Appointed UN Human Rights Deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong> <\/span><b>The United Nations has announced that Secretary-General Anto\u0301nio Guterres on Monday appointed Awa Dabo of The Gambia as Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights. She succeeds Nada Al Nashif of Jordan.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ms Dabo, the daughter of respected former Gambian vice president Bakary Dabo, has extensive experience in human rights, crisis recovery, peace-building and prevention, humanitarian affairs and development.<\/p>\n<p>She has held several senior level positions within the UN, at country and headquarters levels, most recently as director and deputy head of the UN\u2019s Peace-Building and Peace Support Office, where she has been leading and managing efforts to develop peace-building strategies and initiatives, and building a strong interface with internal and external partners.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Dabo previously served as chief of country oversight and support, for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Africa, senior adviser and head of the Crisis and Fragility Policy and Engagement Team for the Crisis Bureau of UNDP, country director for UNDP in Tanzania, and regional programme manager and team leader at UNDP\u2019s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Dabo, who started her UN career as a UN Volunteer, also worked with other UN and non-UN entities, including the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the African Society of International and Comparative Law.<\/p>\n<p>She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. In addition to her native English, Krio and Mandinka, she is fluent in Pidgin and Wolof.<\/p>\n<p>The government of The Gambia issued a statement wishing Ms Dabo a successful tenure and assured her of \u201ccontinued strong collaboration\u201d between the government and her office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Gambia<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The United Nations has announced that Secretary-General Anto\u0301nio Guterres on Monday appointed Awa Dabo of The Gambia as Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights. She succeeds Nada Al Nashif of Jordan. Ms Dabo, the daughter of respected former Gambian vice president Bakary Dabo, has extensive experience in human rights, crisis recovery, peace-building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":94489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-94490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BB Dabo&#039;S Daughter Awa Appointed UN Human Rights Deputy - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Gambia. 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