60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Europe

Overview

This publication, is a commentary and a narrative from the national perspective concerning the reception and understanding of the UDHR in the legal and political order of each EU member state on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition, the three European regional organisations (the Council of Europe, the European Union, and the Organisation of Security and Co-Operation in Europe) contribute to this unique book.

Author Biography

Vinodh Jaichand is Professor and Head of the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the recipient of the National University of Ireland Galway President' s Award for Teaching Excellence 2010-11 and has been involved in human rights education for more than twenty-five years with experience in the NGO world. He is the former National Director of Lawyers for Human Rights in South Africa. Vinodh has taught and examined in the Mediterranean Masters on Human Rights and Democratisation in Malta and acted as an examiner in the European Masters in Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice. As Deputy Director at the Irish Centre for Human Rights he has been the architect of the LL M in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which was launched in September 2009. This was the first LL M of this description in the world. At the end of 2014 he was appointed on the Technical Advisory Group of the World Bank on the Recognition of Rights in the Land Governance Assessment Framework.He has participated in training of police, lawyers, prosecutors, and judges in China, South Africa, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Ireland, Ethiopia, Nepal and India. He holds membership in the Editorial Review Board Human Rights Series of the Republic of Letters Publishing, the Editorial Review Board of "Human Rights & Human Welfare", in the Advisory Board of the "Sur-International Journal on Human Rights", and in the International Advisory Board of Diakonia, Jerusalem. He was the first Chairman of the Board of Integrating Ireland, and he is also a member of Consulting Editorial Board of the "University of Ghana Law Journal" and reader for the "International Journal for Transitional Justice". He holds a doctorate (summa cum laude) and LL M (magna cum laude) in international human rights law from the Centre for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame Law School with other degrees from the University of Miami (LL M), University of Natal (LL B) and the University of Durban-Westville (BA). Apart from English, he is published in Chinese, German, Portuguese and Spanish in numerous journals around the world. He also published several books, reports and has presented papers in more than twenty-six countries. Markku Suksi is Professor of Public Law at Åbo Akademi University (Finland) and former Finnish E.MA National Director. He has published works about constitutional law, autonomy, linguistic rights, the referendum, and elections.