Our members

Guy S. Goodwin Gill is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of International Refugee Law. He is also a Barrister and a member of Blackstone Chambers, practising in public international law, human rights, and refugee and asylum law. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Refugee Law, and his recent publications include  the introductory notes to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness in the ‘Historic Archives’ section of the UN Audio-Visual Library of International Law : http://www.un.org/law/avl/; The Limits of Transnational Law, with Hélène Lambert, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010; Brownlie’s Documents on Human Rights, 6th edition with the late Sir Ian Brownlie, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010; and The Refugee in International Law, 3rd edition with Jane McAdam, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

HNLAC is a non-profit non-governmental organization established in 2002 in Kraków. HNLAC’s main objective is to protect human rights by providing free legal aid to persons at risk of social exclusion and discrimination, including the poor, victims of domestic violence, foreigners, asylum seekers, stateless persons and refugees. The HNLAC also monitors the adherence to standards of human rights, undertakes legal interventions and advocacy activities, and pursues research and educational projects. The Center also undertakes activities aimed at preventing and tackling human and child trafficking by organizing social campaigns and offering legal aid to the victims. HNLAC is a UNHCR implementing partner in Poland.

Haqqi Bahram is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) of Linköping University, Sweden. His research focuses on the legacy of statelessness and identity formation in post-statelessness and forced displacement contexts. His work engages experiences of stateless Syrian Kurds in Europe to study stateless standpoints and activism, social and political inclusion and transitional justice. Haqqi teaches on citizenship, exclusion and conflict and he has previously worked as a senior officer on humanitarian aid and development programmes implemented in Syria.

Helena-Ulrike Marambio is a human rights advocate, holding a Magister in political science (University of Cologne, Germany) and a LLM in human rights (University of York, United Kingdom). She is researching issues related to the protection of stateless persons in Europe, and especially in Germany. She previously hold different positions in Amnesty International in Chile and the UK. She also worked with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Chile.

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights is the oldest and the largest human rights organization in Poland, acting already for over 20 years. HFHR's objective is the promotion of human rights in Poland and countries of the post-Soviet region. The main areas of activity include education in the field of human rights at the national level as well as international activities designed to promote democracy, constitutionalism, rule of law and human rights in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and European Union region. 

HIAS Europe stands for a world where refugees find safety, opportunity, and welcome. Guided by Jewish values and history, we manage humanitarian programming worldwide and support European Jewish organisations and activists in their efforts to welcome and integrate refugees. We add a Jewish voice to discussions on humanitarian, development and forced migration issues, especially vis-a-vis the European institutions and European governments.

Hilkka was senior solicitor with the Immigrant Council of Ireland – Independent Law Centre from 2002 to 2004 and again from 2006 to March 2015. She continues to work with the Immigrant Council in a consultancy role, focussing on EU free movement and statelessness. Hilkka is a graduate of law of the University of Hamburg and is qualified to practice law in Ireland and Germany. She teaches immigration and citizenship law at the Law Society of Ireland and is a member of the Law Society’s Human Rights Committee. Hilkka was appointed a Member of the Irish Refugee Appeals Tribunal in November 2013; she also is an alternate member of the Editorial Team of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (Europe) which is charged with the development of core judicial training materials on asylum in cooperation with the EASO.

The Human Rights League is a civic association (non-governmental organisation) established in 2005. The basic aim of the association is reinforcing the respect for and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms arising from international, European or interstate instruments as well as from the Constitution of the Slovak Republic and other national laws. It combines direct, high-quality and free legal assistance to refugees and migrants in the Slovak Republic, including stateless persons, with advocacy and strategic litigation in the creation, enforcement and implementation of Slovak migration, asylum and integration policy.

Humanrights.ch is a Swiss non-profit organization founded in 1999 with the main aim of gathering and providing information, raising public awareness, monitoring state action and counselling on human rights issues and the human rights situation in Switzerland. Today, the online-platform www.humanrights.ch is one of the most important independent information-platforms for international human rights in the German-speaking world. Humanrights.ch has particular expertise in coordinating and publishing reports and opinions on the human rights situation in Switzerland and has contributed to a number of reports to UN and Council of Europe monitoring bodies. In collaboration with ENS, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion as well as Terre des hommes Foundation, humanrights.ch has submitted a joint submission on statelessness to the Human Rights Council for the third Universal Periodic Review of Switzerland in 2017. Humanrights.ch further offers a legal aid program for persons in the penal system and coordinates a network for victims of racial discrimination. Finally, humanrights.ch is very well connected as a founding member of the NGO Platform Human Rights Switzerland, a network of over 80 Swiss NGOs working in the field of human rights.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) is one of the leading non-governmental human rights organisations in Hungary and Central Europe. It monitors the enforcement in Hungary of human rights enshrined in international human rights instruments, provides legal defence to victims of human rights abuses by state authorities and informs the public about rights violations. The HHC's main areas of activities are centred on protecting the rights of asylum-seekers, stateless persons and other foreigners in need of international protection, as well as monitoring the human rights performance of law enforcement agencies and the judicial system. It particularly focuses on the conditions of detention, anti-discrimination and the effective enforcement of the right to defence and equality before the law. The HHC is a member of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and is an implementing partner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).