Human Rights Experts

Westminster House of Lords, London
Lord Ramsbotham is a retired British Army officer, who later served as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons. He was awarded a life peerage in 2005, and now sits on the cross benches of the House of Lords.Lord Ramsbotham is Chairman of the Koestler Awards scheme, and Vice-Chair of both the All Party Penal Affairs Group and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Learning & Skills in the C...
Chairman of the Board of the American Jewish International Relations Institute
Ambassador Richard Schifter has had a distinguished career as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. and in government. Since 2005 he has served as chairman of the board of directors of American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI).After receiving his L.L.B. from the Yale School of Law in 1951, he practiced law in Washington, DC with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, 1951-1984, and i...
Lawyer
Falah Shakarm is a lawyer and currently the Iraqi Project Coordinator for WADI, an international NGO working for empowering civil society and human rights, where he manages projects about women and youth and campaign to stop female genital mutilation on an Iraq and Middle East level. In 2013 he wrote the first draft of law for combating FGM which was submitted to the Iraqi Parliaments. Falah serve...
Lecturer in International History, University College London
Sarah B. Snyder is a lecturer in international history at University College London and specializes in the history of the Cold War, Human Rights activism and United States Human Rights policy. Her research interests focus specifically on the international history of the Cold War and transnational human rights activism. Formerly, Snyder has served as a Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Ffellow in...
Former Director, Division of United States Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center
EducationB.A. Brandeis University; Ed.M. Harvard University; Ph.D. Graduate Faculty of The New SchoolHonorsgrants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Councilof Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, Fulbright ProgramExperienceFormer Director of Division of U.S. Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center; Broeklundian Professor of Political Science Emerita, City Univers...

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