European Yearbook on Human Rights 2017

Herausgeber*innen:
Wolfgang Benedek / Matthias C. Kettemann / Reinhard Klaushofer / Karin Lukas / Manfred Nowak

Autor*innen:
Lana Ackar
Lana Ackar has been working on gender issues in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) over the last eight years through her assignments with the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (on-going). She is particularly interested in transformation of democratic institutions from a gender perspective as a mean to achieve gender equality. Lana holds degrees in Law and Gender Studies from the Sarajevo University. She is also a proud alumna of the Columbia University's Human Rights Advocates Program.

Stefan Aelbrecht
Stefan Aelbrecht is currently working as a trainee at the Delegation of the European Union to the State of Sudan, based in Khartoum. He holds a Master in Law and a European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratization. His main research interests are extraterritorial and transnational application of human rights law, procedural fairness, accountability and participation (think for instance: The World Bank Inspection Panel). Stefan has another recent publication: "De Ouderlijke toestemming als beschermingsmechanisme in de Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming: In het land der blinden is éénoog koning", Tijdschrift Jeugd-en Kinderrechten 2017, Larcier, p. 36-45 (Dutch).

Rocío Alamillos Sánchez
Is a PhD Candidate in Public International LawStudied law at the University of Seville and Istanbul Bilgi University, and holds a European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice. She is currently researcher at the FRAME project at the University of SRocío Alamillos Sánchez is a PhD Candidate in Public International Law and researcher in the Research Group "Human Rights in the Global Society" at the University of Seville. She holds a Law Degree from the University of Seville and a European Master's Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) from the EIUC. She has studied at Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey with a particular focus on EU Integration policies. She has been trainee at the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), junior researcher of the EU's Seventh Framework Project "FRAME" and has experience in Spanish and Turkish NGOs working on migration and youth issues.eville.

Paul Bacon
Is a Professor of International Relations at Waseda University's Faculty of International Research and Education. His research interests include human security, human rights protection, European Union foreign policy, EU-Japan relations, and NATO-Japan relations. In 2016 two of his co-edited Routledge monographs, The European Union and Japan: A New Chapter in Civilian Power Cooperation?, and Human Security and Japan's Triple Disaster were published in paperback. A third Routledge co-edited monograph, Human Security and Natural Disasters, will appear in paperback in 2017. Professor Bacon has also published more than 30 book chapters and articles in respected international relations journals.

Dr. Wolfgang Benedek
Professor Emeritus at the Institute of International Law and International Relations and former Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy of the University of Graz (UNI-ETC). He is a regular lecturer at the Vienna Diplomatic Academy and the European Master Programmes on Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice and Sarajevo. His main research interests include human rights, human development and human security, on which he has published substantially. He