Jonas Christoffersen

Director, Management
Phone: (+45)32698 861, E-mail: jch[AT]humanrights.dk
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Dr. jur. Jonas Christoffersen was appointed Director of the Institute on January 1st, 2009. He is a lawyer with entitlement to plead before the High Court (1998) and previously held the position of acting High Court Judge at the Danish Eastern High Court (2007). Prior to that he was a clerk at the Supreme Court (1999). Jonas Christoffersen has written about 50 juridical articles on national and international human rights (2000-2008). He was awarded the degree of doctor of laws (Dr. juris) on the basis of a dissertation on the European Court of Human Rights (2008).

Doctoral thesis:You can order Jonas Christoffersen's doctoral thesis at www.brill.nl.

Charlotte Flindt Pedersen

Deputy Director, Management
Master in East European Studies
Phone: (+45)32698 864, E-mail: cfp[AT]humanrights.dk
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Belarus, Ukraine, Central Asia, Trafficking of Human Beings, Juvenile Justice.

Anders Folmer Buhelt

Department Director ,
LL.M. and E.MA.
Phone: (+45)32698 882, E-mail: afb[AT]humanrights.dk

Responsible for the overall strategy development and implementation of the department. Acts as advisor to DIHR justice reform projects.

Eva Maria Lassen

Department Director (in a collegiate team with Peter Scharff Smith), Senior research fellow, Research department
PhD in history
Phone: (+45)32698 845, E-mail: eva[AT]humanrights.dk
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Christianity, judaism, islam; religion and human rights in Denmark; Europe; Iran; freedom of religion; religion, human rights and secular community; womens rights and religion; universality vs relativism; the history of human rights in Denmark, Europe and globally; culture and human rights.

Fergus Kerrigan

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Phone: (+45)32698 857, E-mail: fke[AT]humanrights.dk

Overall strategic coordination of the international programmes. Responsible for strategic coordination in the area of national human rights institutions. Project and programme responsibilities mainly in Africa.

Klaus Slavensky

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Phone: (+45)32698 832, Cell: (+45) 20 61 19 50, E-mail: kks[AT]humanrights.dk

Mandana Zarrehparvar

Senior Adviser, Equality and Diversity
Socialworker, MA Globalization and Integration, BA Political Science
Phone: (+45)32698 892, E-mail: mza[AT]humanrights.dk

What lies in the principles on equal treatment and non-discrimination formally and practically. EU anti-discrimination law. Danish discrimination law. How to secure equal treatment and thus inclusion of all citizens active participation in society.

Margaret Jungk

Department Director, Menneskerettigheder og Erhverv
Ph.d.
Phone: (+45)32698 846, E-mail: mju[AT]humanrights.dk

Margaret Jungk is the founder and Director of the Human Rights & Business Department at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She specializes in operationalizing human rights standards in commercial, governmental and other organizations, including measuring human rights and social impacts, screening for violations and poor practices, monitoring accountability, and evaluating organizations’ overall performance and strategy.
Margaret holds a PhD in political science, specializing in international human rights law, from the University of Cambridge (UK, 1998), an M.Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge (UK, 1993), a fellowship from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel, 1991), and a BA in political science from the University of Kansas (USA, 1990).

Susanne Nour

Department Director , Equality and Diversity
MS, University of Copenhagen
Phone: (+45)32698 904, E-mail: sno[AT]humanrights.dk
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Susanne Nour designed DIHRs diversity toolbox for business, consisting of The Compliance Assessment Tool, Guidelines for Diversity Management, a Diversity Workshop Model and The Wheel of Diversity. She is the initiator of the MIA Prize, the only Danish business diversity award. Her field of expertise is anti-discrimination legislation and diversity management. She is the editor and main author of the book “Diversity in the Workplace – When We are Equal but Not The Same”. Nour holds an MA in anthropology from Copenhagen University, is a certified Pathfinder and is trained in systemic process consultancy.