Tim Cahill

Tim Cahill is Senior Programme Officer for Human Rights. Prior to joining the Trust he headed Amnesty International’s Brazil team for over 10 years. During this time he did extensive work on issues including prisons and torture, indigenous peoples’ rights, slave labour, land rights, and threats and killings of human rights defenders. His main area of expertise is public security, social exclusion and human rights, leading him to devise dynamic new strategies to address systemic urban violence in Brazil and in Africa. Previously he worked at the Portuguese for Africa section of the BBC World Service.

Tim has an MA in Political Science from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London and a BA in Portuguese, Brazilian and African studies from King’s College London.

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