Human Dignity Day

1 1 UN Photo: A group of Japanese women look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights during a visit to the UN’s interim headquarters in Lake Success in February 1950 In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and to complement the United...

2018 Events

1 1 • 1-2 June 2018, Central European University, Budapest — HUMAN DIGNITY FOR EVERYONE EVERYWHERE: FROM TENSIONS AND CONFLICT TO RECONCILIATION • 3-4 August 2018, Christ Church College, Oxford University — HUMAN DIGNITY FOR EVERYONE EVERYWHERE: FOUNDING FIGURES, FOUNDATIONS, AND THE USES OF HUMAN DIGNITY • 7-9 October 2018,...

Dmytro Vovk – Director, Center for Rule of Law and Religion Studies, Yaroslav the Wise National Law University

1 1 Dr. Dmytro Vovk runs the Center for Rule of Law and Religion Studies at Yaroslav the Wise National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine). He was an expert on human rights and rule of law for USAID, OSCE/ODIHR, Council of Europe, and Constitutional Commission of Ukraine. He is a member...

Marco Ventura – Professor of Law and Religion, University of Siena; Director, Centre for Religious Studies, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento

1 1 Marco Ventura is a full professor (professore ordinario) with tenure at the Department of Law of the University of Siena. After a PhD at the University of Strasbourg he has visited the universities of London (UCL), Oxford, Strasbourg, Brussels (ULB), the Centro de Formação Jurídica e Judiciária of...

Ahmed Shaheed – United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief

1 1 On 1 November 2016, Ahmed Shaheed assumed his mandate as Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. He is Deputy Director of the Essex Human Rights Centre. He was the first Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in the Islamic...

Rik Torfs – Chair, Faculty of Canon Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

1 1 Rik Torfs studied law and canon law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and obtained a degree in notarial law. He received his doctorate in 1987 with a dissertation on the canonical concept of marriage. In 1988, Torfs was appointed professor in the Faculty of Canon Law at...

Donlu DeWitt Thayer

1 1 Donlu DeWitt Thayer is Publications Director at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University Law School and an Associate Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. She manages the case table for the Strasbourg Consortium, which tracks the FoRB jurisprudence of...

Jeroen Temperman – Professor of Public International Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam

1 1 Prof. Dr. Jeroen Temperman is Professor of Public International Law at the Department of International Law of Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research is focused on freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression and extreme speech (particularly religious hate speech), religion-state relationships, and issues of discrimination on religious...

Eiichiro Takahata – Professor of Constitutional Law, Nihon University, Japan

1 1 Eiichiro Takahata is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Nihon University, Japan. He received an LLM from the University of Georgia, USA in 1997. His specialties are constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, and “Law and Religion.” His publications include: “Religious Accommodation in Japan,” 2007 Brigham Young University Law...

Nayla Tabbara – Director, Institute of Citizenship and Diversity Management, Adyan Foundation (Lebanon)

1 1 Dr. Nayla Tabbara is the Director of the Adyan Institute of Citizenship and Diverstiy Management, and the vice chair of Adyan Foundation. Previoiusly, she served as director of Aydan’s Cross-Cultural Studies Department. She holds a doctorate in religious studies from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris)...