Board of Directors
BOARD LEADER
Kariane Westrheim
Rafto Foundation
e-mail: kariane.westrheim@iuh.uib.no
Kariane Westrheim is a Norwegian University Lecturer (PhD candidate) in Education at the University of Bergen. She has been a Board Member of the Rafto Foundation since 2001. The Rafto Foundation awarded the Kurdish Parliamentarian Leyla Zana with the Rafto Prize in 1994.
Westrheim has participated in fact finding missions and has conducted field research in Kurdish areas.
Westrheim is Chair of the EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC), established in 2005, to monitor Turkey’s compliance with the EU Turkey accession criteria.
TREASURER
Kerim Yildiz
Kurdish Human Rights Project
e-mail: kyildiz@khrp.org
Kerim Yildiz is a writer and the founder and Executive Director of the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP), the only independent non-political human rights organisation of its type dedicated to the promotion and protection of the human rights of all people in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, the Caucasus and elsewhere. KHRP's work has contributed to important reforms in Turkey, including the lifting of the state of Emergency and abolition of state security courts.
Yildiz has written extensively on human rights including numerous essays, articles and books on freedom of expression, national security and minority rights published in English, Turkish and Russian.
MEMBERS
Hans Branscheidt
medico international
e-mail: kdi@gmx.de
Former Executive Director of medico international, Frankfurt. Editor of the
leading German Publication for development policy "Zeitschrift für
Entwicklungspolitik.".
President of "Mezopotamian Development Society" MESOP e.V. Former Delegate
of German Development NGO's to LICO Brussels. Near East Journalist.
Mark Muller
Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales
Mark Muller is a barrister, currently with Garden Court Chambers. Mr Muller was Head of Chambers at 10-11 Gray's Inn Square from 1998. He is also a Vice-President of the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) and Chair of the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP). He mainly specialises in international human rights and criminal related litigation.
Mark Muller has conducted a multitude of cases before the European Court of Human Rights, including Abdulla Öcalan v. Turkey and Issa & Others v. Turkey. He has also provided advice and representation in human rights related actions brought before the European Court of Justice of the European Union. Mark Muller has been instrumental in devising and providing ECHR training to lawyers throughout Europe, including Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and has published fact finding and trial observations reports detailing the systematic abuse of human rightsin the Kurdish areas of Turkey, as well as numerous legal reports and a book entitled " The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in the 1990's".
Sehnaz Turan
TOHAV
e-mail:sehnaz_turan@hotmail.com
Sehnaz Turan is a human rights defence lawyer. She started her profession as a lawyer in Diyarbakir in 1998. She has worked for Prison Committee of Diyarbakir Bar Association - Amnesty International of Diyarbakir Branch and Human Rights Association. She is currently president of the Foundation for Society and Legal Studies (TOHAV) based in Istanbul. TOHAV is a non-governmental, legal organisation founded by lawyers to be in solidarity with the victims of human rights. The objective of TOHAV is mainly to absorb, to carry out and to put the fundamental principles of democracy and international law in the social and the governmental life.
Jan Beghin
senator Brussels Parliament
e-mail:jbeghin@parlbru.irisnet.be
Member of the Brussels Regional Parliament since 1989. Former member of the Flemisch Regional Parliament and former Mayor of Ganshoren in Brussels. Parliamentarian activities: Economics, poverty and human rights issues.
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