<span class="vcard">Jasmine D. Cameron</span>

Jasmine D. Cameron

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Jasmine D. Cameron (LinkedIn – X) is an international human rights lawyer and visiting scholar at American University’s Washington College of Law. She most recently served as Senior Legal Advisor for Europe and Eurasia with the American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights, Justice Defenders Program.

Previously, she worked overseas for many years, including as a staff attorney and legal advisor for the U.S. Department of Justice at the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where she helped implement complex anti-corruption and rule-of-law initiatives, and as a political officer for the U.S. Department of State at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she focused on the internal politics and elections portfolio.

Her work centers on the rule of law, legal development in transitional democracies, and international human rights. Ms. Cameron holds a J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law, a law degree from Kyrgyz National University, and a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature from the Bishkek University of the Humanities.

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The frame of the photo is filled with a tightly packed crowd of judges in black robes and purple, blue, or fuscia neck ruffles, alongside members of the public. Polish, EU and other flags can be seen above them in the background, apparently carried by marchers.
Laurent Vinatier is escorted to a courtroom
The leader of Civic Coalition (KO), Donald Tusk addresses voters and lawmakers from the podium in the parliament after receiving a majority of the chamber's votes to be the next prime minister during a parliamentary session on Dec. 11, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. His coalition of opposition parties won a majority in October's general election, ending eight years of rule by the Law and Justice (PiS) party. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)
Demostrators wave the EU and Polish flags at a protest
Supporters and Judges of Krakow Courts hold banners during a protest against an ongoing session of the Disciplinary Chamber of Poland's Supreme Court to consider the application of the National Public Prosecutor's Office for permission to detain and forcibly bring Judge Igor Tuleya in front of Krakow's Appeal Court on April 21, 2021 in Krakow, Poland. Igor Tuleya, who had been critical of changes to Poland's justice system, had become a symbol of the struggle for judicial independence in Poland. The EU had taken Poland to court over judicial independence concerns. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)

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