The Strasbourg Conference on International Law & Human Rights

"The Role of International Law to Promote Sustainable Development, Youth Empowerment & Women's Rights"

(Strasbourg, France; April 14th - 16th, 2014)

Conference Speakers

Speakers and Delegates during the conference will include leading politicians and diplomats, senior academics and other dignitaries from around the world. These speakers will include a large number of individuals from the ICD Advisory Board. To learn more about the ICD Advisory Board, please click here.

The following are among the Speakers for the Symposium:
  • Dr. Alina Malinowska
    Researcher, Department of Human Rights, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University- Lublin, Poland
  • MEP Angelika Werthmann
    Member of the European Parliament
  • MP Anna Wallén
    Member of the Parliament of Sweden
  • Bozidar Jovanovic
    Consul of Serbia in Strasbourg
  • Judge Boštjan Zupančič
    Judge, the European Court of Human Rights
  • Judge Dmitry Dedov
    Judge, European Court of Human Rights
  • Judge Dragoljub Popovic
    Judge, European Court of Human Rights
  • MP Egidijus Vareikis,
    Member of the Parliament of Lithuania
  • Rt. Hon Mr. Elfyn Llwyd
    Member of the British Parliament
  • MP Fiona Mactaggart
    Member of the British Parliament
  • MEP Sir Graham Watson
    Member of European Parliament for the South West of England and Gibraltar; President, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
  • Grégory Thuan
    Laywer, Cabinet Hincker & Associés
  • Judge Ineta Ziemele
    Judge, Section President, European Court of Human Rights
  • MP Ján Figel
    Vice President, National Council of the Slovak Republic
  • MEP Kristiina Ojuland
    Member of the European Parliament
  • Ms. Lilja Gretarsdottir
    Senior Adviser on Migration, Council of Europe
  • Ms. Liri Kopachi
    Head of Equality Division, Council of Europe
  • Manuel Lezertua
    Director of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
  • Prof. Dr. Maurice Blanc
    Professor of Sociology, University of Strasbourg
  • Dr. Mohammad H. Zarei
    Assistant Professor of Public Law at Shahid Beheshti University, Faculty of Law, Tehran
  • MP Ögmundur Jónasson
    Member of the Parliament of Iceland
  • Ms. Petya Nestorova
    Executive Secretary of GRETA
  • Ms. Regína Jensdóttir
    Head of the Children´s Rights Division of the Council of Europe
  • Prof. Dr. Romuald Normand
    Professor of Sociology, University of Strasbourg
  • Prof. Dr. Scott Johns
    Lecturer, Immigration Rights and Individual Rights, University of Denver
  • Ms. Sandra Vermuyten
    Equality and Rights Officer of Public Services International - PSI
  • MEP Silvana Koch-Mehrin
    Member of the European Parliament
  • MP Tynkkynen Oras
    Member of the Parliament of Finland
  • MP Wayne David
    Member of the British Parliament