Abstract
The Executive Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR) is proud to inform its readership that three renowned scholars have joined our International Editorial Board, thereby increasing its range of expertise. The Executive Board warmly welcomes to professor Elina Pirjatanniemi, professor dr. Tarlach McGonagle and dr. Chiseche Salome Mibenge.
Elina Pirjatanniemi is Professor of Constitutional and International Law at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland and Director of the Institute for Human Rights at the same university. She is an expert on human rights, as well as asylum and migration law, and on the relationship between human rights and criminal justice. Her current research interests include vulnerable groups with a particular focus on irregular migration. Pirjatanniemi has a strong commitment in higher education development in the field of human rights and serves as one of the Vice-Presidents of the Global Campus of Human Rights.
Tarlach McGonagle is Professor of Media Law and Information Society at Leiden Law School, Leiden University, and a senior researcher/lecturer at the Institute for Information Law, Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam. McGonagle is the founder and co-chair of the Working Group on human rights in the digital age in the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research and a member of the Euromedia Research Group. He regularly advises and writes expert studies for the Council of Europe, the OSCE and other IGOs. He is a member of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on hate speech.
Dr. Chiseche Mibenge is the Director, Gender Initiatives at Episcopal Relief & Development, the humanitarian response of the Episcopal Church. She provides leadership on human rights and gender strategy and supports global partners addressing early childhood development, violence against women and gender equity, and climate resilience. Chiseche studied Law at the University of Zambia and received her PhD in International Human Rights Law from Utrecht University’s School of Law. She is the author of Sex and International Tribunals: The Erasure of Gender from the War Narrative (Penn Press), and is the co-editor with Irene Hadiprayitno (Leiden) of a book series, Human Rights Interventions (Palgrave MacMillan).
The Executive Board of the NQHR is greatly indebted to the members of its Editorial Board; each member, with his or her subject matter expertise, helps guarantee the high academic standard of the articles published in the NQHR. We look forward to continuing to work together with the Editorial Board in publishing the latest scholarly work on international human rights law in our journal.