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Dr. Daniel Mekonnen (also known as Daniel Rezene Mekonnen) is an African human rights lawyer, born in Dekemhare (Eritrea) in 1973 to Eritrean and Ethiopian parents. He lives in Geneva, where he works primarily as an Independent Consultant in the areas of: International Human Rights Law (IHRL), International Refugee Law (IRL), Transitional Justice, Forced Migration, Human Trafficking, and Matters of Global Peace and Security.

His personal-professional website, describes him as “a human rights lawyer with proven track record in ‘cause lawyering,’ a form of legal activism, involving the deployment of legal and non-legal technics in the pursuit of human rights and the resolution of violent political conflicts.”

Since 2001, he has been living in exile due to the difficult political situation in his home country, Eritrea.

In Eritrean diaspora circles, he is known as a champion of human rights, engaged community leader and civil society mobiliser. In one section of his personal-professional website, he proclaims that he “is deeply committed to the ideals of a world free from human rights violations” and “his mission in life is to leave a lasting impression to humanity in general, not just to a certain or limited professional area.” His contribution as a human rights defender was chronicled by a report of Amnesty International from June 2019 (pp. 15-17) and media coverage of Al-Jazeera of the same time.