ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ZAYD HANIEF, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Kashmir | Srinagar, India | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 6
" Juastice Thurgood Marshall once remarked that,"The legal system can force open doors and sometimes even knock down walls. But it cannot build bridges. That job belongs to you and me. " A rights-based democractic constitution is useless without a citizenry unaware of those rights, and one that is unconcerned about defending those rights and ensuring that they are passed down to their future generations. This is the one cardinal rule that augments all that I have chosen to do and intend to do in the future as well. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Advancement of Rights of Marginalized Communities
Our university is based in a conflict zone that happens to be the world's most heavily militarized territory. With human rights violations being commonplace in Kashmir's theatre of war, civil rights are trampled upon frequently. This leaves the most disenfranchised groups in the valley particularly vulnerable to harm and injustice, at the hands of both the state and their fellow citizens. My project seeks to remedy that on a micro level by education and empowerment.
About the Millennium Fellow
Zayd Hanief is a student of the law pursuing a Bachelor of Arts and an LLB at the Law School, University of Kashmir. He has spent most of his life within the vale of Kashmir. And having witnessed and endured oppression and state-sanctioned brutality, he made it his life's mission to learn the law and use it to the best of his ability to serve the marginalized and the suppressed. This zeal for aiding the oppressed and the silenced translated itself into a lifelong mission to aid those whose voices aren't heard in the corridors of power. His formative years were spent learning the contours of equality law, rights-based jurisprudence, and the nuances of judicial activism, which he attempted to disseminate to his peers to the best of his ability.
