Mike Dottridge is a researcher and author who has worked in the field of human rights for forty years and has focused on human trafficking and related forms of exploitation for the past two decades. In the 1990s, he was Director of a London-based NGO, Anti-Slavery International. In 2002, he chaired a group of specialists convened by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to develop the High Commissioner’s Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking. Since 2002, he has been an independent consultant, planning, evaluating and criticising anti-trafficking programmes and supporting initiatives to promote the rights of migrants.
Professor Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, PhD (Nig), LLM (London), LLB (Nig), BL, Diploma, Peace and Conflict Res (Uppsala), is a Law Professor and the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria. She is an activist and versatile legal scholar recognised as a leading authority in the field of human rights, especially on the rights of women and children in Africa. She was appointed in 2008 as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children, and served in that capacity globally until 2014. She was also on the Board of Trustees of the UN Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking managed by the UNODC from 2013 to 2016.
Anne T. Gallagher, AO (PhD), is a lawyer, practitioner, teacher and scholar working in the fields of human rights and the administration of criminal justice. An independent and award-winning scholar, she is widely recognised as a leading global authority on the international law of human trafficking and of migrant smuggling. Her current positions include Academic Member, Doughty St Chambers; Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Presidential Task Force on Trafficking; Adviser to the Director-General of the International Organization for Migration; Member of the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration; and Adviser with the Asia-Australia Trafficking in Persons Program.
Zecarias Gerrima is Vice-Chair, Staff Writer and Media Coordinator of African Monitors, an Eritrean Human Rights organisation based in Uganda. Before leaving Eritrea in 2014, Zecarias Gerrima graduated from Asmara University in Applied Geography and History (2003) and worked as a journalist for the Ministry of Information with Eritrean Television Service (Eri-TV) until 2013. After moving to Uganda, he worked with the Eritrean National Forum for Dialogue as a staff writer for Radio Medrek (erimdrek.com). In this position, he wrote commentaries and current affairs analyses on Eritrean politics.
Rahel Gershuni has been a lawyer for thirty-five years, with an expertise in criminal law in general and trafficking in persons in particular. She served in Israel as Deputy Director of the Antitrust Authority, Head of the Criminal Division of the Department of Legislation and Legal Counsel in the Ministry of Justice, and as Anti-Trafficking Coordinator. She also worked in UNODC’s Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Section as a staff member and continues to work closely with this organisation. She continues to lead workshops training practitioners to address trafficking issues in Israel and other countries.
Rina Ghafoerkhan, MSc, is a psychologist and PhD candidate at Equator Foundation and Utrecht University. Her current research, the Equator RISE study, focuses on gaining better insight into the psychodiagnostic profile and improving treatment outcomes in female victims of sexual exploitation. She has broad experience in working with victims of (sexual) violence, conflict and war, both in the Netherlands and abroad in (post-)conflict settings.
Eyob Ghilazghy is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Africa Monitors, an Eritrean human rights organisation based in Uganda. He is also Secretary of Pen Eritrea, an association of writers and journalists in exile that promotes freedom of expression. Eyob Ghilazghy holds a Bachelor in Plant Sciences from the University of Asmara and a Master of Science in Sustainable Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has also previously worked as a teacher, food security officer, monitoring officer, agronomist, human rights defender, researcher and journalist.
Dr Maria Grazia Giammarinaro currently serves as a Judge in the Civil Court of Rome. From 2010–14 she was the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings of the OSCE. In this position, she hosted the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons, a platform for consultation and co-operation including UN Agencies, International Organizations and NGOs. She served from 2006–2009 in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security in Brussels, where she was responsible for combating human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children. She drafted the EU Directive on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims.
Dr Claire Healy is Research Officer at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development’s (ICMPD) Anti-Trafficking Programme, and author of Targeting Vulnerabilities: The Impact of the Syrian War and Refugee Situation on Trafficking in Persons (2015). Together with the ECOWAS Trafficking Unit, she composed the ECOWAS Annual Reports on Trafficking in West Africa, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Claire also coordinated research on trafficking and migration at Brazilian land borders, and on child begging in Europe, and co-authored a study and manual on trafficking for exploitation through begging. She has a PhD in Migration History from the National University of Ireland.
Neil Howard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Antwerp and Senior Fellow at the UNICEF Office of Research. He is a Founding Editor of Beyond Trafficking and Slavery at opendemocracy.net. He has been researching so-called human trafficking and anti-trafficking policy since 2006.
Anniina Jokinen currently works as an Adviser for the Task Force Against Trafficking in Human Beings at the Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Stockholm. She has over ten years’ experience in working with human trafficking issues and has written several trafficking-related reports, articles, guidelines and policy papers in English and in Finnish.
Jyothi Kanics has a Master’s in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford and a Master’s in International Relations from Yale University. She is currently a Doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne within the National Centre of Competence in Research, NCCR-on the Move, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Since 1995, she has been active with NGOs and international organisations (including UNICEF, Save the Children, OSCE, ODIHR and the Irish Refugee Council), advocating for the rights of vulnerable migrants such as separated children, trafficked persons, undocumented migrants and stateless persons.
Selam Kidane is a PhD student at Tilburg University. She is a psychotherapist, writer and human rights campaigner. She has been Director of Release Eritrea since 2004. Since August 2016, she has been the Project Manager at Race on the Agenda (ROTA), where she develops and manages mental health projects for Nepalese, Tamil and Somali communities in West London. Previously, she worked for Enfield Council (2006–15), the British Association for Adoption & Fostering (2000–2006), the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (1998–2000) and the Camden Family Support Unit (1994–98). Selam Kidane holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Westminster and a Master of Science in Systemic Therapy from the University of London
Frédéric Kurz, a Belgian national, is Deputy General Prosecutor at the Liege Labour Court and a Senior Co-ordinator for the network of expertise in human trafficking of the Board of General Prosecutors. In this capacity, he participated in developing the criminal policy on human trafficking and co-ordinates its implementation. He is tasked with training judges and prosecutors specialising in this field. He has been a member of GRETA since 2013. His publications address many subjects, including the principle of human dignity in Belgian law, forced labour, forced begging, the non-punishment clause and trafficking in human beings as a worldwide phenomenon.
Dr Tenia Kyriazi completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies in law in Greece and the UK and qualified as an attorney in Greece. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in Law and the Campus Programme Coordinator for Law and Politics Programmes at
Middlesex University, Dubai. Through her research, she examines issues of international human rights law, mostly relating to education, gender, migration and trafficking in human beings. Since 2005, her publications, project and consultative work have focussed on human trafficking. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2010, addresses Trafficking in Human Beings in the Framework of International and European Human Rights Law.
Dr Anja Lok, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist, psychologist and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Academic Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Mood Disorders in Amsterdam. Her clinical expertise areas are the diagnostics and treatment of comorbid mood disorders with post-traumatic stress disorder. She studies the course of mood disorders (impact of stress, cognition and emotions), in particular the aetiology of recurrence and neurobiological and somatic aspects. Her focus is on specific biological mechanisms through which the course of stress-related disorders develops. She previously worked as an expert team leader for victims of human trafficking at Equator Foundation.
Marta López-Fraga, PhD, is the Scientific Officer in charge of the European Committee on Organ Transplantation (CD-P-TO), the Steering Committee in charge of the donation and transplantation activities at the Council of Europe. The CD-P-TO actively promotes the non-commercialisation of organ donation, the fight against organ trafficking and the development of ethical, quality and safety standards in the field of organs, tissues and cells. She also coordinates the publication of the Council of Europe Guide to the Quality and Safety of Organs for Transplantation and the Guide to the Quality and Safety of Tissues and Cells for Human Application, leading guidance documents in the field. She is a member of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group.
Marika McAdam, PhD, is an independent legal consultant and adviser on human trafficking and migrant smuggling. She has written several technical publications for the United Nations and other agencies, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and the International Organisation for Migration. In her work on criminal justice and human rights based responses to transnational crime, she has carried out extensive research and consultations with state agencies and non-state actors throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the South Caucasus.
Lorna McGregor is a Professor at Essex Law School, Director of the Human Rights Centre and Co-Director of an ESRC Large Grant on Human Rights, Big Data and Technology at the University of Essex. She is a Co-Chair of the European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on Human Rights, a Co-Chair of the International Law Association Study Group on Individual Responsibility in International Law, a Commissioner of the British Equality and Human Rights Commission and a member of REDRESS Legal Advisory Council. Lorna was previously the International Legal Adviser at REDRESS and Programme Lawyer at the International Bar Association.
Alice M. Miller is Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership between the Law and Public Health Schools at Yale University, Associate Scholar for International Human Rights/Associate Professor, Yale Law School, Assistant Clinical Professor Yale School of Public Health, Lecturer in Global Affairs at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University. Miller’s work focuses on critical engagement with the theory and practice of gender, rights claims and law. Her experience encompasses not only scholarship but also more than two decades of advocacy and training with NGOs and UN and other inter-governmental agencies, with the goal of facilitating analytically rigorous, reflective practitioners. Previously, she taught in policy, law and public health schools at Columbia University and Berkeley as well as teaching in independent sexuality and rights institutes in the Netherlands, Turkey and India.
Zuzanna Muskat-Gorska works as a legal officer at the International Trade Union Confederation, based in Brussels. She specialises in international labour standards. She is a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Economic Migration, OSCE Anti-Trafficking Alliance’s Expert Coordination Team and FRA’s Fundamental Rights Platform. She holds an LLM in International and EU Law from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, MA in Sociology of Law from the Oñati International Institute for Sociology of Law, MA in Industrial Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand and Master of Laws from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Fadela Novak-Irons, a New Zealand citizen, is now the Head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Sweida/Dara’a Office in Syria after postings with the UNHCR Europe Bureau and its Global Learning Centre. She has been working on asylum and human trafficking, gender and sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) issues in Europe since 2009, and contributed to the drafting committee for the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. She coordinated the publication of Prevent. Combat. Protect: Human Trafficking, a Joint UN Commentary with a Human Rights-Based Approach on the EU Directive (2011).
Dr Marco Odello is a Reader at Aberystwyth University Law School. He teaches International and Human Rights Law, European and Comparative Public Law. He is a member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law. His publications include: ‘Between Immunity and Impunity: Peacekeeping and Sexual Abuses and Violence’ (2016) 20(6) International Journal of Human Rights, pp. 839–853 (with R. Burke); Armed Forces and International Jurisdictions, 2013 (with Seatzu, F., eds); Emerging Human Rights in the XXI Century, 2011 (with Cavandoli, S., eds); International Military Missions and International Law, 2011 (with Piotrowicz, R., eds); and ‘Tackling Criminal Acts in Peacekeeping Operations: The Accountability of Peacekeepers’ (2010) 15(2) Journal of Conflict and Security Law, pp. 347–391.
Natalia Ollus works at the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the UN (HEUNI). She has expertise in research, policy development and training for the prevention of human trafficking, and has worked with anti-trafficking efforts in both Europe and Africa. She holds a Doctorate in Laws, and has published extensively in particular on the exploitation of migrant workers and labour trafficking.
Joachim Renzikowski is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Philosophy/Theory of Law at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. He was educated at the Universities of Erlangen and Tübingen. Dr. iur (1994) Tübingen, Habilitation 1997 (Tübingen), venia legendi in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Legal Philosophy. His main fields of research are the theory of norms, crimes against sexual autonomy and the European Convention on Human Rights.
Helmut Sax is Key Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna. His main work areas include human rights of children and rights of persons affected by human trafficking. Since 2011, he has been a member of GRETA, the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (Second Vice President 2013/14). Other memberships include the Austrian Child Rights Advisory Board to the Federal Ministry of Families and Youth and the Child Trafficking Working Group of the inter-agency Anti-Trafficking Task Force. He has studied law and teaches civic education, children’s rights and anti-trafficking law at Vienna University.
Pim Scholte, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and the founder of Equator Foundation, an organisation providing mental health care for traumatised refugees and victims of human trafficking, scientific research and knowledge transfer. He is affiliated with the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam. He has broad experience in the field of psychosocial aid and research in humanitarian settings worldwide, and is the (co-)author of various scientific studies on mental health in post-conflict regions. Currently he supervises the Equator RISE study on the psycho-diagnostic profile and treatment outcomes in female victims of sexual exploitation.
Svati P. Shah is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, with an affiliation with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is also a Research Associate with the African Centre for Migration and Society, at the University of Witwatersrand. Her book Street Corner Secrets
: Sex, Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai (Duke University Press, 2014) is an ethnographic critique of sexual commerce as one of a number of livelihood strategies that migrant women working as manual labourers undertake in order to survive. Her current research is on LGBTQ movements, temporality and political economy in India.
Kiril Sharapov holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow. In 2013–14, he led a research project funded by the EU FP7 Programme investigating public understanding of human trafficking in three European countries. He has published widely on human trafficking as a concept, which reflects unequal power relations within the context of neoliberal capitalism. His current research examines the relationship between vulnerability to human rights abuses vis-à-vis neoliberal governmentality by focusing on the phenomena of migration, unfree labour and environmental degradation. He is currently Associate Professor in Social Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University.
Klara Skrivankova is an internationally recognised expert on modern slavery with over fifteen years’ experience in the field. She has worked for several organisations, including La Strada Czech Republic, and most recently Anti-Slavery International, where she leads its Europe Programme, managing research and advocacy to eliminate all forms of modern slavery, including in supply chains in the UK and Europe. In 2007 she co-founded the UK Trafficking Law and Policy Forum, and from 2008–15 was a member of the EU Expert Group on Trafficking in Human Beings. She has also acted as an adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Council of Europe and the Ethical Trading Initiative.
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