Morten KJAERUM Director, FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna
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1984 | Master of Law, University of Aarhus, Denmark |
1984-1991 | Head, Asylum Department, The Danish Refugee Council |
1991-2002 | Executive Director, The Danish Centre for Human Rights |
2003-2008 | Executive Director, The Danish Institute for Human Rights; Co-Director, The Danish Centre for International Studies and Human Rights |
since 2008 | Director, FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights |
International Assignments: | |
2002-2008 | Member, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) |
2004-2008 | Elected CERD Follow-up co-ordinator |
Elected President, International Co-ordination Committee for National Human Rights Institutions (ICC) |
Mitgliedschaften
Advisory Board, Danish Industrialisation fund for Developing Countries (IFU) | |
Advisory Board; the Human Rights Institute of the University of Latvia, 1996- 2008 | |
The Future of Asylum and Migration; Society for International Development, The Hague, since 1999 | |
Advisory Board, Refugee Law Commission, Geneva, 2002-2008 | |
Board, Centre for Victims of Torture, Brussels, 2002- 2007 | |
Network of experts on fundamental rights (established by the European Commission for the European Parliament) 2002-2006 |
Publikationen
Editorial Memberships: | |
Member of Editorial Review Board on International Human Rights Quarterly, since 2006 | |
Human Rights in the Developing Countries, Yearbook, Europe, 1991-2007 | |
Mennesker og Rettigheter, Nordic Journal, 1991-2008 | |
Advisory Board: Nordic Journal of International Law, since 1993 | |
EU Law & Human Rights Law (EU-ret & menneskeret), Denmark, 1994-2003 | |
Academic and general articles in Danish, Nordic and international journals: | |
1986-2005 more than 50 titles were published on issues related to a number of human rights issues and in particular refugee law and the prohibition against racial discrimination. |