Immigration Detention in Europe: Establishing Common Concerns and Developing Minimum Standards

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1 Strasbourg, 21 November 2013 Immigration Detention in Europe: Establishing Common Concerns and Developing Minimum Standards November 2013 Council of Europe - Strasbourg Agora building - G02 and G03 SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 1

2 Mary BOSWORTH Mary is Reader in Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford, and concurrently, Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely on race, gender and citizenship in prisons and immigration detention. Her books include Engendering Resistance (Ashgate, 1999), The US Federal Prison System (Sage, 2002), Race, Gender, & Punishment (with Jeanne Flavin) (Rutgers University Press, 2007), Explaining US Imprisonment (2010), What is Criminology (with Carolyn Hoyle) (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Borders of Punishment (with Katja Aas) (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Inside Immigration Detention (Oxford University Press, 2014, Forthcoming). She is UK Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical Criminology and Director of the Border Criminologies at the University of Oxford ( Edouard DELAPLACE Edouard Delaplace has been working in the field of torture prevention for the past ten years. After completing in 2002 his PhD dedicated to the International Prohibition of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment in Paris, he joined the Association for the Prevention of Torture in the UN and Legal Programme. In 2007 he joined the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva as an adviser on judicial guarantees and torture issues. In this capacity he provided support to ICRC field missions and contributed to the drafting of the new ICRC policy on torture. Since 2013 he is back at the APT as a special adviser. Based in Québec he is working on both legal and detention monitoring issues. Cédric DE TORCY Contrôle général des lieux de privation de liberté After having led the department of domestic operations ("Direction des opérations de solidarité") in French Red Cross during six years (from 2002 to 2008), I joined the "Contrôle général des lieux de privation de liberté" at its beginning as a "controleur". 2

3 Professor Malcolm D EVANS, OBE Malcolm Evans is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol. He is a member and Chair of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture (the SPT) and currently Vice Chair of the Meeting of Chairs of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies. He is also a member of the Foreign Secretary s Human Rights Advisory Group. From he was a member of the OSCE ODIHR Advisory Council on the Freedom of Religion or Belief. He is currently General Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and Co-Editor in Chief of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. Major published works include: Religious Liberty and International Law in Europe (CUP, 1997), Preventing Torture (OUP, 1998), Protecting Prisoners (ed) (OUP, 1999), Combating Torture in Europe (Council of Europe, 2002), Manual on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Public Areas (Council of Europe/Brill, 2009), The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OUP, 2011). He is also Editor of International Law (OUP, 3rd ed, 2010) and Blackstone s International Law Documents (OUP, 11th ed, f2013). Michael FLYNN Michael Flynn is the founder and manager of the Global Detention Project based at the Graduate Institute s Program for the Study of Global Migration in Geneva. Flynn s experience includes working as director of Right Web an online research and publishing project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., that tracks the work of militarist U.S. foreign policy actors and as an associate editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. Flynn s work on the Global Detention Project has been supported by the Open Society Foundation, the Oak Foundation, the Geneva International Academic Network, the Swiss Network for International Studies, and Zennström Philanthropies. Flynn has also been a visiting fellow at the Pew International Journalism Program and has received multiple grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Asia Times, among other media outlets. His most recent academic publication is Who Must Be Detained? Proportionality as a Tool for Critiquing Immigration Detention Policy, Refugee Studies Quarterly, He holds a BA in philosophy from DePaul University and a PhD in international studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. 3

4 Nick HARDWICK CBE Nick Hardwick began work as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons in July He was previously the first Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission from 2003 to His earlier career was in the voluntary sector, where he began working with young offenders for NACRO (The National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders). From 1986 to 1995 he worked as Chief Executive of Centrepoint a charity and housing association for young homeless people. In 1992 he was seconded to the Department of Environment to work as a special adviser to the then Housing Minister, Sir George Young Bt. MP. He was the Chief Executive of the Refugee Council from 1995 to He is currently a trustee of New Horizon Youth Centre. Nick has a BA (Hons) from Hull University in English Literature and has an Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences from the University of Wolverhampton. In March 2013 he was made Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Leicester University Department of Criminology. He was awarded a CBE in He lives in London with his wife and son. Latif HÜSEYNOV Born on 1 February 1964 in Azerbaijan. Graduated in 1986 from Kiev State University, International Law Faculty. From February-November 1998 was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany), and from February-July 1997 was a visiting scholar at the Swiss Institute for Comparative Law (Lausanne, Switzerland). Since July 2002, Professor of Public International Law at Baku State University (Azerbaijan). Since March 2004, member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), and since March 2011 President of the CPT. In January 2010 and March 2005 appointed as ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights. In July 2004 was appointed at the 60th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights as Independent Expert on the human rights situation in Uzbekistan (1503 Procedure). Since December 2003, member of the Venice Commission (European Commission for Democracy through Law), and from March 2001 December 2007 was a member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI). Author of more than 50 publications in the field of International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law and International Responsibility. 4

5 Sandra IMHOF Sandra has been Head of Secretariat, National Commission for the Prevention of Torture (NCPT) in Switzerland since She has a background in the field of human and children s rights in the non-profit sector, and has worked for Kinderschutz Schweiz, Terre des hommes Foundation, and Amnesty International Swiss Section. Markus JAEGER After professional training as a banker in Germany, Markus Jaeger studied philosophy, law and political sciences in Germany, France and Switzerland. He joined the Council of Europe in 1989 and worked in various fields, including the reform of the European Social Charter's monitoring system, the setting up of administrative tribunals in Eastern and Central European countries, institution building in Albania, organizing international co-operation in the fight against corruption, confidential monitoring of member States compliance with commitments and obligations for the Secretary General. From 2000 to 2002, he served as Deputy Director of Legal Affairs and then Acting General Counsel of Interpol. Upon return to the Council of Europe he took the position of Deputy to the Director of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, was then tasked with running co-operation programs for the Organization until asked to head the Migration Co-ordination Division which was set up on 1 January Eleni KOUTROUMPA Mrs Eleni Koutroumpa was born in Athens. She is married and has two children. In 1987 she was awarded degree in law (Kapodistriako University of Athens). In 1999 she was awarded PhD on the subject: Advertising Contract and Mass Media ( Pantion University of Athens). Since 1987 up to 2005 she was practicing law. From 2001 up to 2004 she was Legal Advisor in the Ministry of Press and Mass Madia. Since 2005, she holds the position of Senior Investigator at the Greek Ombudsman s Office, at the department of Human Rights. Her main activity is the investigation of cases concerning mainly issues of asylum seekers and refugees, legal entry and issues of residence permit. She is proficient user of English Language. 5

6 Hindpal SINGH BHUI Hindpal Singh Bhui is an Inspection Team Leader at HM Inspectorate of Prisons. He inspects all forms of custody and heads inspection of the immigration detention estate in the UK for the Inspectorate. He was previously a foreign national prisoner specialist, a probation officer, a criminal justice lecturer and journal editor. He has published a number of articles and chapters on foreign national prisoners and immigration detention, and a book on Race and Criminal Justice. Tineke STRIK Since 2007 Tineke Strik is a member of the Dutch Senate for the Green Party. On behalf of the Dutch Parliament, she is deputy member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and vice chair of the Migration Committee. She was rapporteur on readmission agreements and on the report 'lives lost at the Mediterranean, who is responsible?', and is currently working on a report on the effects and desirability of the use of integration tests in migration law. As a member of an ad hoc committee assessing the situation in the southern Member States of the Council of Europe, she visited refugee camps in Lampedusa, Turkey and Malta. Tineke Strik is also assistant professor Migration Law at the Centre for Migration Law of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She has written a dissertation on European migration law and its effects on the national legislation of the Netherlands and Germany. She previously worked in the field of (European) migration and asylum law at the Dutch Refugee Council, the alien chamber of the District Court of Zwolle, the Second Chamber of the Parliament and the Ministry of Justice. 6