LHR appoints Sharon Ekambaram as the New Head of its Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme
It gives us great pleasure to announce the appointment of Sharon Ekambaram as the new head of LHR's Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme.
Sharon is an experienced human rights activist with extensive advocacy experience. She was the head of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) South Africa’s Dr Neil Aggett unit, which provides programmatic and advocacy support for MSF’s regional activities.
She was also the founding Director of the MSF Southern Africa office. She was involved in the struggle against apartheid which included working to build the Marxist Workers Tendency of the ANC in the period from 1988 to mid-1990s.
Sharon became a health activist with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and has been involved in HIV/AIDS work since 1990. She has worked on issues of HIV and TB prevention and treatment, and the impact of socio-economic inequalities on health heading the advocacy work of the AIDS Consortium.
She was employed to establish the Chris Hani Institute in 2004 to serve as a monument to the aspirations of ordinary working people and the poor in South Africa.