NQHR June 2020
| Author | Antoine Buyse |
| Date | 01 June 2020 |
| Published date | 01 June 2020 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0924051920925649 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Editorial
NQHR June 2020
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 A
˚bo 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-c hair 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.
Antoine Buyse, Editor-in-Chief
Elif Erken, Managing Editor
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
2020, Vol. 38(2) 83
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