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Dr Ewelina U. Ochab

Official Site of Human Rights Advocate 

& Author

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Dr Ewelina U. Ochab is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and author.

 

Dr Ochab is a programme lawyer with the IBA's Human Rights Institute and co-founder of the Coalition for Genocide Response. Dr Ochab works on the topic of genocide, with specific focus on the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities around the world, with main projects including the Daesh genocide in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram atrocities in West Africa, the situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, the Uyghurs in China, Tigrayans in Ethiopia, and the Hazara in Afghanistan. 

Dr Ochab further works on the issue of conflict-related sexual violence and the situation of children in conflict, including during Putin's war in Ukraine. Among others, she has been raising the issue of abductions and illegal adoptions of Ukrainian children in Russia.

Dr Ochab has written over 30 reports for the UN (including Universal Periodic Review reports) and has made oral and written submissions at the Human Rights Council, the UN Forum on Minority Issues, PACE and other international and regional fora. She authored the initiative and proposal to establish the UN International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief on August 22. 

 

Dr Ochab obtained PhD in international law, medical law and ethics.

Bio

In the Press

Violence against women and girls has many faces. One does not have to look far to see these faces, they are all around us. It takes the will to see. It takes the courage to speak up against. It takes the strength to fight against. But inaction is not good enough anymore.


Forbes 

If we have any respect to the victims and survivors of the several mass crimes that took place since WWII – we need to get better in spotting the signs of mass atrocities, call them for what they are, and take decisive steps to stop them and assist the affected people.


HuffPost UK

More can and must be done however to safeguard vital evidence of ISIL atrocities in Iraq, to help ensure the terrorist group’s fighters are one day brought to justice for the horrific violations and abuses they continue to commit with impunity in Iraq.


Oxford Human Rights Hub

The UK was the leading force behind the UN Security Council Resolution 2379 that passed successfully on 21 September 2017. However, the resolution proposes that Iraqi courts will deal with prosecutions of the perpetrators. The question is whether Iraqi courts can do so.


World Watch Monitor

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HART UK

LSE Human Rights 

Catholic Herald 

Unheard 

Victims of Daesh genocide require urgent help. This includes ensuring people who wish to leave affected areas are prioritized for resettlement. Individuals who decide to stay in the area require assistance with adequate arrangements to stay. The decision whether to leave or stay should be left for the people and never imposed.


Providence 

The Nineveh Plains remain an unstable conflict zone. Remaining pockets of radical Islamic fighters and an unreliable security force pose the greatest challenges to long-term stability for Christians in Iraq. The U.S. must play a more proactive role in promoting stability to defend the indigenous Christian population in the region.


Washington Examiner

In The Press

News & Events

Past Events 

2022

  • Hazara (Ad-hoc Parliamentary) Inquiry

    • 5 April – Situation of the Hazara in Afghanistan

    • 17 May – Situation of the Hazara in Pakistan

    • 23 May – Situation of the Hazara in Afghanistan 

  • 9 December, ‘Russia’s Genocide in Ukraine’, Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies, Twitter space, online (speaker)

  • 9 December, ‘Human Rights Day’, ICLRS, Bratislava (moderator)

  • 7 December, ‘Not Leaving Genocide Prevention to Chance’, British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, and the Coalition for Genocide Response, UK Parliament, London (curator and speaker)

  • 30 November, ‘CRSV On European Soil: Putin's Atrocities in Ukraine’, IBAHRI, UK Parliament, London (curator and speaker)

  • 29 November, ‘Truth and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in the DRC’, FCDO, QEII Centre, London (curator and moderator)

  • 28 November, ‘Truth and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in the DRC’, IBAHRI, UK Parliament, London (curator and speaker)

  • 28 November, ‘Turning the Tide on Ensuring Justice for the Yazidis for the CRSV’, APPG on the Yazidis, UK Parliament, London (curator and speaker)

  • 3 November, ‘IR and the war in Ethiopia’, Twitter space, online (speaker)

  • 1 November, ‘All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Hazara- AGM’, UK Parliament, London (speaker)

  • 1 November, ‘All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eritrea - Meeting’, UK Parliament, London (intervener)

  • 28 October, ‘Holding Taliban Accountable’, The Frontline Club, London (speaker)

  • 27 October, ‘The Hazara Genocide - Protest outside of No 10’, London (speaker)

  • 27 October, ‘Persecution based on Religion or Belief’, FoRB Conference, Poland, online (speaker)

  • 25 October, ‘China Nexus Book Launch’, London (speaker)

  • 10 October, ‘Neyruz’, Westminster Abbey, London (speaker)

  • 10 October, ‘The Rights to a Fair Trial in Myanmar’, IBAHRI, UK Parliament, London (curator and speaker)

  • 22 August, ‘The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief - Turning Words into Action’, IBAHRI (curator and moderator)

  • 3 August, ‘Yazidi Genocide: The European Perspective’, Free Yazidi Foundation (moderator)

  • 3 August, ‘Religion in Public Square’, BYU and University of Oxford (speaker)

  • 19 July, ‘GPAAAC Inaugural Session: Building a Network with an Eye on Ukraine’, MIGS and KAS (speaker)

  • 19 July, ‘The Situation of Children in Ukraine: The Need for A Comprehensive Action Plan’, IBAHRI and Lumos (moderator)

  • 8 July, ‘Oxford Diplomacy and Geopolitics Forum: The Daesh Atrocities’, Atlantic Council U.K and NATO Association of Canada (speaker)

  • 7 July, ‘Building on Positive Development in the Middle East and North Africa’, FoRB Ministerial Conference, IRF and Refcemi (speaker)

  • 6 July, ‘As The World Looks Away - The Targeting of the Hazara in Afghanistan and Pakistan’, FoRB Ministerial Conference, Hazara Inquiry (curator and speaker)

  • 6 July, ‘State Responsibility and the Yazidi Genocide’, FoRB Ministerial Conference, Yazidi Justice Committee (speaker)

  • 6 July, ‘Implementing the duty to prevent: global approaches’, FoRB Ministerial Conference, IBAHRI (curator and moderator)

  • 5 July, ‘Celebrating Yazidi People and Culture’, FoRB Ministerial Conference, APPG on the Yazidis and Bellwether International (speaker)

  • 5 July, ‘Prevention: Early warnings and early responses’, FoRB Ministerial Conference, FCDO (moderator)

  • 5 July, ‘Implementing the duty to prevent: global approaches’, FoRB Ministerial Conference, Mini session, IBAHRI (moderator, curator)

  • 30 June, ‘Trapped in Limbo: Middle Eastern Christians Living in the Shadow of Genocide’, IRF Summit, A Demand for Action  (speaker)

  • 29 June, ‘Implementing the duty to prevent: Global approaches’, IRF Summit, IRF Summit Global Campaign to End Genocide  (moderator, curator)

  • 29 June, ‘Religious Minorities Overcoming Genocide’, IRF Summit, IRF Roundtable (speaker)

  • 28 June, ‘Faith over Fear: Leah Sharibu, Religious Prisoner of Conscience Enslaved by ISIS’, IRF Summit, the Leath Foundation  (speaker)

  • 15 June, ‘Dangerous Liaisons: UK partnerships with Chinese policing institutions linked to crimes against humanity in Xinjiang’, UK Parliament, IBAHRI and Freedom from Torture  (curator)

  • 1 June, ‘Under siege and out of sight: atrocities in Tigray’, MIGS (speaker)

  • 3 May, ‘Growing Pressures on Human Rights Defenders in Hong Kong and Beyond’, IBAHRI, APPG on Hong Kong (moderator)

  • 20 April, ‘Turkish Airstrikes on Yazidis in Iraq and Syria: Keeping Justice for the Yazidis on the Agenda’, APPG on the Yazidis, City Law School, Accountability Unit, UK Parliament (speaker)

  • 31 March, ‘The Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims: The Need to Collect and Preserve Evidence of Atrocities’ Refcemi and CRIED, Queen Elizabeth II Centre (curator and moderator)

  • 25 March, ‘Censorship, Misinformation and Disinformation - the Three Horsemen of Persecution based on Religion or Belief’ Digital Persecution, Birmingham University, Roehampton University and Open Doors (speaker)

  • 22 March, ‘Violations of FoRB as a driver for forced displacements’ Lord Alton, Brendan O'Hara MP, Fiona Bruce MP, APPG on the Yazidis and APPG on FoRB (curator and moderator)

  • 15 March, ‘Religious or Belief Minorities at Risk. Part II’ Human Rights Council, IBAHRI, co-sponsored by the US Mission to the UN and the Mission of the Kingdom on the Netherlands to the UN, (curator and moderator)

  • 11 March, ‘Religious or Belief Minorities at Risk. Part I’ Human Rights Council, IBAHRI, co-sponsored by the US Mission to the UN and the Mission of the Kingdom on the Netherlands to the UN, (curator and moderator)

  • 7 March, ‘The Many Faces of Women at Risk’ Brendan O'Hara MP, the APPG on the Yazidis and the APPG on lawyers and judges at risk globally (curator and moderator) 

  • 7 March, ‘Women in Tigray, Ethiopia’, UK Parliament (speaker)

  • 27 February, ‘Creative Approaches to Accountability for Genocide’, OxFID 2022 (moderator)

  • 15 February, ‘Contemporary Martyrs Day’, Coptic Orthodox Church (moderator)

  • 11 February, ‘FoRB in Nepal’ APPG on FoRB (speaker)

  • 9 February, ‘Meeting on the Uyghur Crisis and Beijing Olympics’ British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union (speaker)

  • 4 February, ‘A Global Civil Society Event: A Potential Genocide Warning in India’, FORSEA (speaker)

  • 2 February, ‘Call it for what it is: the Daesh genocide’ APPG on the Yazidis (curator and moderator)

  • 19 January, ‘The Duty to Prevent Genocide and the Need for Domestic Monitoring and Analysis Mechanisms: Lessons from the Missed Opportunities’ Refcemi (speaker and moderator)   


 

2021

  • 21 December, ‘Afghan Women at Risk: The Threats Faced, The Help Needed, The Future Sought’ IBAHRI (moderator) 

  • 8 December, ‘Bridging the Gap in Genocide Responses’ IBAHRI (moderator)   

  • 24 November, PSVI, ‘Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict – the Way Forward’ IBAHRI (moderator)   

  • 20 November, Tigray ‘How we get Recognition of the Tigray Genocide (Identifying obstacles and challenges; developing approaches and strategies for Tigray Genocide Recognition)’ Mekete Tigray UK and the Tigray Youth Network (speaker)   

  • 21 November, Pakistan, ‘Minorities under threat – Forced conversions & Marriages’ Asma Jahangir Conference 20021, AGHS Legal Aid Cell, Pakistan Bar Council, Asma Jahangir Foundation (speaker)   

  • 9 November, ‘Freedom of Religion or Belief’ Coptic Orthodox Church, Annual Nayrouz Vespers Service (speaker)  

  • 19 October, ‘Challenges of pluralism: human rights, minorities, violence and reasonable accommodation’ III International Seminar on Law and Religion, FDRP USP (speaker)  

  • 28 September, ‘Expert Panel Discussion on Interreligious Dialogue’ Council of Europe (speaker)   

  • 21 September, ‘Gender and Genocide’ Newsline Institute (speaker)

  • 20 September, ‘Responding to the Uyghur Genocide: Assessing Policy and Legislative Options for the U.S.’ Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Crimes, Binghampton University (speaker)

  • 8 September, ‘Gender and Genocide’ UN Asia Pacific Forum (intervener)

  • 2 September, ‘Gendering Geopolitics with Emily Prey’ Newcastle University (speaker)

  • 26 August, ‘Gendering Geopolitics with Emily Prey’ Newsline Institute (speaker)

  • 23 August, ‘The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief’ (moderator)

  • 8 July, ‘Two years After the Truro Review’ (organiser)

  • 6 July, ‘Uyghur repression – systematic, brutal, but is it genocide? Packer and Schabas. Two different solutions’ (co-organiser and moderator)

  • 23 June, ‘The Situation of Christians and Religious Communities in the World’, EPP, European Parliament (speaker)

  • 22 June, ‘The Use of Starvation Against the People of Tigray’ (moderator and organiser)

  • 21 June, ‘The Other Pandemic: Rape and Sexual Violence in Conflict’ (moderator and organiser)

  • 13 June, ‘G7 Prayer Breakfast’ Refcemi (moderator)

  • 19 May, ‘Responding to the Atrocities against Uyghurs in Xinjiang’ (moderator and organiser)

  • 17 May, ‘The War on Tigrayan Women’ (moderator and organiser)

  • 28 April, ‘Defining Genocide: Why Genocide is the Right Word for the Treatment of the Uyghurs’ Yet Again (speaker)

  • 27 April, ‘The Trafficking of North Korean Women to China’ Lord Alton, the Coalition for Genocide Response and HRNK (moderator and organiser)

  • 23 April, ‘Addressing the situation of the Uyghurs: Sanctions with Bill Browder’ APPG on Uyghurs (moderator and organiser)

  • 15 April, ‘Addressing the situation of the Uyghurs: G7 and Winter Olympics 2022’ APPG on Uyghurs (moderator and organiser)

  • April-May, Refcemi Mentoring Programme: Sessions with experts (organiser and moderator)

  • 25 March, ‘Roundtable: Roundtable on religious minorities in Syria’ Refcemi and CREID, roundtable (moderator)

  • 24 March, ‘The Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations’ Coalition for Genocide Response, webinar (moderator and organiser)

  • 23 March, ‘Report on Christian Persecution 2020’ Hungary Helps (panellist) 

  • 16 March, ‘Spotlight on the Tigray Region of Ethiopia: The Need for an Urgent Response’ (moderator and organiser) 

  • 8 March, ‘Turning Her Body into a Weapon of Persecution/Genocide’ Coalition for Genocide Response, Stop Uyghur Genocide, World Uyghur Congress, Rene Cassin, Yet Again (moderator and organiser)

  • 5 March, ‘Asymmetrical Haircuts Podcasts: Genocide Gap with Melanie O’Brien and Ewelina Ochab’ podcast (speaker)

  • 25 February, ‘Roundtable: Religious Inequalities As “Conditions of Life Calculated to Bring about Physical Destruction in Whole or in Part”’ Refcemi and CREID, roundtable (moderator)

  • 22 February, ‘Hearing with Victims’ APPG on Uyghurs (moderator and organiser)

  • 15 February, ‘Contemporary Martyrs Day’ Refcemi (moderator)

  • 4 February, ‘Addressing the Many Faces of Complicity in Genocide’ APPG on Uyghurs, Coalition for Genocide Response, Rene Cassin (moderator and organiser)

  • 8 January, ‘Effective Prevention and Reconciliation Starts With Recognition and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity, Democracy Today’ Yereven, Armenia (speaker)


 

2020

 

  • (various dates), ’40 Minutes on Human Rights with…’ webinar series (moderator and organiser) 

    • Dr. Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir (22 July)

    • Prof. Javaid Rehman (6 July)

    • Bill Browder (15 June)

    • Rev. Johnnie Moore and Rabbi Abraham Cooper (1 June)

    • Archbishop Angaelos (18 May)

    • Bishop of Truro (4 May)

  • 9 December, ‘What Happened to the Promise? The Situation of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh’, Lord Alton of Liverpool and the Coalition for Genocide Response, webinar (moderator and organiser)

  • 9 December, ‘Addressing Religious Inequalities as a Means of Atrocity Prevention’, CREID and Refcemi, roundtable (moderator and speaker)

  • 18 November, ‘What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About The Targeting Of Religious Minorities’, CREID and Refcemi, webinar (moderator and organiser)

  • 17 November, ‘The Question of Mass Atrocity Monitoring and Determination’, Lord Alton of Liverpool and the Coalition for Genocide Response, webinar (moderator and organiser)

  • 16 November, ‘The Persecution of the Uighur Muslims in China – Where to Go to from Now?’ APPG on Uyghurs and the Coalition for Genocide Response, webinar (moderator and organiser)

  • 16 November, ‘Nexus of Humanitarian Aid and Persecution’, Hungary Helps and International Christian Concern, webinar (panel discussant)

  • 27 October, ‘FoRB Day: Engaging on PSVI and Supporting the Declaration of Humanity’, Refcemi, CSW and the APPG on FoRB, webinar (moderator and organiser)

  • 19 October, ‘When We Did Not Learn from the Past: The Atrocities Against the Uyghur Muslims’, APPG on Uyghurs (moderator and organiser)

  • 24 September, ‘The Disappearing Women and Girls: Abducted, Forcibly Converted, Forcibly Married and Abused’, Lord Alton of Liverpool, webinar (moderator and organiser)

  • 22 August, ‘Ensuring Justice for the Atrocities in Nigeria’, Christian Social Movement of Nigeria, webinar (speaker)

  • 21 August, ‘International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief’, Coalition for Genocide Response, webinar (moderator and organiser)

  • 19 August, ‘Six Years After ISIS Genocide: The State of the Yazidi Community’ IRF Roundtable and Nadia’s Initiative, webinar (speaker)

  • 5 August, ‘Justice Delayed is Justice Denied’, Coalition for Genocide Response, webinar (moderator and organiser)

  • 3 August, ‘Six-Year Yezidi Genocide Commemoration: Safety and Security’, Free Yezidi Foundation, webinar (speaker)

  • 23 July, ‘Effective Responses to Genocide’, World Youth Alliance, webinar (speaker)

  • 22 July, ‘A Way Forward? Finding Justice for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China’, Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, webinar (co-organiser) 

  • 8 July, ‘One Year After the Truro Review’, UK House of Lords, webinar (speaker and co-organiser)

  • 24 June, ‘Celebrating EU FoRB Day and looking to the future of FoRB at the EU’, webinar (moderator)

  • 17 June, ‘How Covid19 Exacerbates Religious Persecution Around the World’, University of Public Service of Budapest, Nonconference (speaker)

  • 16 April, ‘Freedom of Religion or Belief, COVID-19 and Human Dignity’, webinar (moderator)

  • 2 March, ‘For a Better Future for Religious Minorities in Pakistan - the Legacy of Shahbaz Bhatti’, UK House of Lords, London, UK (speaker and so-organiser)

  • 9 February, ‘Confronting Global Responses to Genocide’ Oxford Forum for International Development, Oxford, UK (speaker)

 

 

2019 

  • 2-3 December, ‘The Recognition of the Phenomenon of the Persecution of Christians’, London, UK (chair and organiser)

  • 28 November, ‘Accountability and Acknowledgment of Genocide’ Budapest, Hungary (speaker) 

  • 28 November, ‘The Recognition of the Phenomenon of the Persecution of Christians’, Budapest, Hungary (chair and organiser) 

  • 26 November, ‘Accountability and Acknowledgment of Genocide’ Budapest, Hungary (chair and speaker) 

  • 18-19 November, ‘Istanbul Process’ the Hague, the Netherlands (attendee)

  • 4 November, ‘The Need to Prevent the Crime of Genocide’, Launch of the Coalition for Genocide Response, UK House of Lords, London, UK (speaker) 

  • 7 October, ‘Addressing Religious Persecution Globally’, 26th BYU Conference, Provo, US (speaker) 

  • 6 October, ‘Advancing the Punta del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere’, 26th BYU Conference, Provo, US (speaker) 

  • 2-3 August, ‘Building infrastructure at the U.N. for a better implementation of the right to FoRB and prevention of the most egregious violations of the right to FoRB’, ‘Religious Persecution in the World Today: Diagnoses, Prognoses, Treatments, Cures’ Oxford, UK (speaker) 

  • 29 July, ‘Religious Persecution in the World Today’ King’s College, New York, US (podcast interviewee) 

  • 23 July: ‘UN International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief’, Parliamentary event, UK House of Parliament, London, UK (speaker and organiser) 

  • 18 July: ‘The Question of Genocide Determination in Pursuance of the Duty to Prevent and Punish’ IAGS 2019 Conference, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (speaker, remotely) 

  • 16-18 July: Ministerial on Religious Freedom, US State Department, DC, US (attendee, invitation only) 

  • 10-11 July: Defend Media Freedom Conference, UK and Canadian Governments, London, UK (attendee, invitation only) 

  • 8 July: ‘Addressing persecution and violence based on religion or belief’, ‘One Step At A Time: Addressing Religious Violence and Persecution’ Site event of the 41st UN Human Rights Council, Geneva (speaker) 

  • 24 June: ‘Two Genocides in Half a Decade: Overview, the Response and The Next Steps’, Trinity Law School, The Hague, The Netherlands (speaker) 

  • 18 June: China Tribunal Interview, London, UK (interviewee) 

  • 14 June: ‘Legal responses to extreme cases of religious persecution: bringing Daesh to justice’ Workshop on Religious minorities in crisis: European solidarity at risk? Aston Centre for Europe (ACE), Aston University, Birmingham, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, Birmingham, UK (speaker) 

  • 1 June: ‘Equality, Equity and Human Dignity’, TEDx, London, UK (speaker) 

  • 3 April: ‘Persecution of Christians around the world’, FCO Independent Review Into Persecution of Christians, London, UK (oral submission) 

  • 5 March: ‘Steven Krulis Champion Humanity Award’, UK Parliament, London, UK (co-organiser) 

  • 18-22 February: ‘Explanatory note on the Punta del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere’ BYU, US (researcher and drafter) 

  • 20 February: ‘The case of the Daesh genocide and the needed legal responses’ BYU, Provo, US (speaker) 

  • 2 January: ‘Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s Middle Belt’ BBC World, London, UK (interviewee) 

 

 

2018

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  • 12-14 December: ‘Religious Nature of the Mass Atrocities in Burma’, NUS-BYU Conference Singapore. (Speaker)

  • 1-5 December: ‘Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere’, Punta Del Este, Uruguay (Secretary and member of the working group)

  • 27 November: ‘Genocide Convention at 70: Lessons Learned and Yet to be Learned’, UK Parliament, Speaker’s House, London, UK. (Moderator and organiser)

  • 8 October: ‘Daesh Genocide and Nadia’s Nobel Peace Prize’, Top of Mind with Julie Rosie, BYU, Provo, US. (Speaker)

  • 8 October: ‘Genocide as the Ultimate Denial of Human Dignity’, 25th BYU Conference, Provo, US. (Speaker​

  • 13 September: ‘A new approach to help Iraqi minorities’, 5th ICLRS Conference, Rio, Brazil. (Speaker)

  • 4 August: ‘Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere: Responding to Distortions, Abuses and Hostility towards Human Rights’ ICLRS, BYU, OJLR, Oxford, UK. (Speaker, summary presentation)

  • 25 July: ‘Between Scylla and Charybdis?  Preventing The Historical Fate of Religious Minorities’ ICLRS Writers Course, Oxford, UK. (Speaker, book proposal presentation)

  • 18 July: ‘The Question of Genocide Determination in the UK’ , All Party Parliamentary Group on Burma meeting, House of Commons, London, UK. (Speaker)

  • 17 July: ‘20 Years of the Rome Statute’, Al Jazeera, London, UK. (Speaker)

  • 6 July: ‘Bringing Daesh to Justice’, Founding Conference on Bringing ISIS to Justice, The Hague, The Netherlands. (Speaker and co-organiser)

  •  4 July: ‘Persecution of Religious Minorities: The Case of Women and Girls’ The International Conference on Human Rights, Warsaw, Poland. (Speaker)

  • 27 June: ‘Daesh Genocide Against Religious Minorities: Overview And The Next Steps’, Trinity Law School, The Hague, The Netherlands. (Speaker)

  • 21 June: ‘Daesh and Genocide: Prosecuting Terrorism and The Counter Terrorism Risks at Home’ Foreign Policy and Geopolitics in the Era of President Trump, Oxford, UK. (Speaker)

  • 20 March: ‘The Question of Genocide Determination: Behind the Argument of 'International Judicial System’’, Parliamentary Hearing, House of Lords, London, UK. (Organiser and speaker) 

  • 8 March: ‘Boston Roundtable: Edward Lansdale's Vietnam: Lessons for Afghanistan and Iraq’  Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA, US. (Roundtable attendee)​​

  • 6-9 March: ‘Religious Persecution in the Middle East’, Series of Lectures at Universities and Colleges in Boston, MA, US. (Speaker)

 

2017

 

  • 4 December: ‘The Rights to Return: Their Only Hope’, Expert Workshop, University of Stefana Wyszynskiego, Warsaw, Poland. (speaker)

  • 17 November: ‘The Right to Return under International Law and the Empirical Reality’, Third European Congress for Defending Christians, Krakow, Poland. (speaker)

  • 11-13 October: International Consultation on Christian Persecution – Finding the Appropriate Answers to a Long-Neglected Crisis Persecution of Christians, Conference and Workshop, Hungarian Department of Human Capacities, Budapest, Hungary. (attendee)

  • 28 September: ‘The Right to Return under International Law’, ‘Return to the Roots: Christians in the Nineveh Plains’ Aid to the Church in Need Conference, Rome, Italy. (speaker)

  • 22 September: ‘The Situation of Religious Minorities in Iraq’, ‘Untold Experiences of Vulnerable Refugees’ Conference, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. (speaker)

  • 4 August: ‘The Situation of Religious Minorities in Iraq’, Philos Project Fellows Workshop, New York, US. (speaker)

  • 12 July: ‘Convention on Genocide Approaching 70’, The Thirteenth Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Brisbane, Australia. (speaker)

  • 22-23 June: 'The Impact of Counter-Extremism Strategy on the Enjoyment of the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in the UK', OSCE/ODIHR First Supplementary meeting, Vienna, Austria. (speaker) 

  • 25 April: ‘Prosecuting and Punishing the Crimes Against Humanity or Even Possible Genocide Committed by Daesh’, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Hearing, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France. (speaker)

  • 6 April: ‘Daesh Atrocities Against Women and Girls and the Needed Response’, European Centre for the Study of Extremism Conference on Syria, London, UK. (speaker)

  • 26-27 January: Persecution of Christians, Conference and Workshop, Hungarian Department of Human Capacities, Budapest, Hungary. (attendee)

 

2016

 

  • 14 December: ‘Bringing Daesh to Justice’, Parliamentary Hearing, Dutch Parliament, Den Haag, the Netherlands. (speaker) 

  • 26 November: ‘Attacks on Christians by Fulani Herdsmen and Boko Haram’, ‘Embattled: Christians Under Pressure in Europe and Beyond’ Conference, Vienna, Austria. (speaker)

  • 24 November: ‘Situation in the Recently Liberated Nineveh Plains’, Oral Submission, UN Forum on Minority Issues 2016, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. (speaker)

  • 24 November: ‘Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East’, Book Presentation, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. (speaker)

  • 6 November: ‘Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East’, Book Presentation, Second European Congress for Defending Christians, Krakow, Poland. (speaker)

  • 10 July 2016: ‘Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East’, Book Presentation, Bratislava, Slovakia. (speaker)

  • 30 June: ‘Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East’, Book Presentation, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium. (speaker)

 

2015

 

  • 28 September: ‘Situation of Christians and Religious Minorities in Syria’, Oral Submission, UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland. (speaker)

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