Rapporteurs

Report on Crimes Against Humanity under the Rome Statute in Turkey Today 1986: PhD in Law at Ghent University 1988 – present: Associate professor of constitutional law and human rights at the University of Ghent Deputy Prime Minister in federal governments in Belgium (1995-1998, 1999-2003, 2003-2005, 2011-2014) 2006: Appointed Minister […]

Report on freedom of expression and freedom of the press 1995-2005: Chairman of the General Association of Professional Journalists of Belgium and then Chairman of the Association des journalistes professionnels. 2004-2013: Vice-President of the European Federation of Journalists 2016-2019: President of the International Federation of Journalists Question 4 Can Turkey […]

Report on enforced disappearances Partner | Vennoot at Van Steenbrugge Advocaten   2013: Internship at the International Center for Transitional Justice (department of international criminal law), New York 2013 to date: Registered at the New York Bar 2013: Internship at the Cambodia Tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2013: Guest Lecturer […]

Report on Judicial Independence & Access to Justice 1995 – present: Judge   2016 ­– 2020: Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian School for the Judiciary (SSM) 2007 ­­– 2017: EU independent expert in Albania, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey in the context of Rule […]

  2014- 2016: Research/Teaching Assistant at Turgut Özal University Law School, Ankara, Turkey 2018- 2019: Research Fellow at Uppsala University Law School, Sweden 2019- 2021: Visiting Fellow at Hertie School of Governance, Germany 2021 – Present postdoctoral researcher at Hertie School Berlin The report Impunity will be co-authored by Prof. […]

Report on impunity 2010 – present : Professor of Human Rights at the University of Ghent Co-founder of the Centre for Human Rights of Ghent University 2007 – today: Editor in Chief of the Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal The report Impunity will be co-authored by Prof. Dr. Yves […]

Report on torture* 1980-1985: Advisor to the Secretary-General UNCTAD 1995-2010: Secretary General of the World OrganisationAgainst Torture 1986: French prize for human rights * The torture report will be made with the support of Prof. Dr. Johan Vande Lanotte (University of Ghent) Question 1 Can we see a pattern in […]