EDUCATION
1995-1999
PhD
in Human Rights Law, Keele University
1991-1992
MA
in International Studies, University of Leeds – Pass with Distinction
1987-1991
BA
(Hons) in International Relations, Keele University –
First Class
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2000 – present
Senior Lecturer in International
Law and Human Rights
and MA Convenor,
Centre for International Human Rights, University of London, School of
Advanced Study, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
2004
Visiting Research Fellow,
Lauterpacht
Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
2002 - 2003
Part-time Lecturer,
University
of Kent at Canterbury, London Centre for International Relations
2001 - 2002
MA Supervisor
for the MA in Race and Ethnic Relations, Birkbeck College, University of
London
1995 - 1999
Lecturer and GTA, Departments of Law and International Relations,
Keele University
1993 - 1994
‘Foreign Expert’ Lecturer
in English Language and British Culture, Hefei Associated University, P. R.
China
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
“Human
Rights, the UN and the Bahá’ís in
Iran”,
The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2003, 628 pp.
Journal
Articles
include:
“From UN
Commission on Human Rights to UN Human Rights Council: One step forwards or
two steps sideways”, ICLQ, accepted for publication, vol. 55, no. 3,
July 2006
“Convergences
and disparities between the human rights of religious minorities and of
women in the Middle East”, Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3,
August 2004
UN Document,
“Ethnic and Religious Groups in the Islamic Republic of Iran”, tabled at the
United Nations Working Group on Minorities, May 2003 (UN Document
E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.5/2003/WP.8)
“Diplomatic
Efforts to Protect Human Rights in Iran”, Centre for the Study of Diplomacy,
University of Leicester, Diplomatic Studies Programme Discussion Papers, Jan
Melissen (Ed.), 1999, ISSN 1363-7800
Annual
reviews of the UN Commission on Human Rights published by the International
Journal of Human Rights:
“A Review of
the 61st Session of the Commission on Human Rights”,
International
Journal of Human Rights,
(co-authored with Angela Melchiorre), vol. 9, no. 4, Winter 2005, 27 pp.
“A Review of
the 60th Session of the Commission on Human Rights”, International
Journal of Human Rights, (co-authored with Ladan Rahmani), vol. 9, no.
1, Spring 2005, 28 pp.
“A Review of
the 59th Session of the Commission on Human Rights”, International
Journal of Human Rights, (co-authored with Ladan Rahmani), vol. 8, no.
1, Spring 2004, 30 pp.
“A Review of
the 58th Session of the Commission on Human Rights”, International
Journal of Human Rights, (co-authored with Ladan Rahmani), vol. 7, no.
3, Autumn 2002, 25 pp.
“The 54th
Session of the Commission on Human Rights”,
Netherlands
Quarterly of Human Rights,
vol. 16, no. 3, September 1998, 16 pp.
“The 53rd
Session of the Commission on Human Rights”,
Netherlands
Quarterly of Human Rights,
vol. 15, no. 3, September 1997, 12 pp.
Edited
Collections
include:
“Does God
Believe in Human Rights?”, (co-edited with Raphael Walden), Leiden:
Martinus Nijhoff, forthcoming 2006 (a collection of 13 chapters)
“Minorities,
Peoples and Self-Determination” (co-edited with Alexandra Xanthaki),
Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2005, ISBN 90-04-14301-7 (a collection of 17
chapters)
“The
Challenge of Religious Discrimination at the Dawn of the New Millennium”,
Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2003, ISBN 90-04-13641-X (a collection of 10
chapters)
Book
chapters
include:
“Europeanisation of Asylum Policy and Changing Concepts of Citizenship in
the UK” in New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers: Challenges Ahead,
Susan Kneebone and Felicity Rawlings-Sanaei (Eds), Oxford: Berghahn Books,
(in press)
“Middle East”
section of the State of the World’s Minorities 2006, London: Minority
Rights Group International, December 2005, ISBN 1 904584 32 2, pp.167-181
”Freedom of
Religion or Belief, A focus on its evolution in international instruments
and mechanisms”, in The Essentials of Human Rights, Christine van den
Anker and Rhona Smith (Eds), London: Hodder Arnold, 2005, ISBN 034081 5744
“Repressing
Minorities and getting away with it? A consideration of Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights”, in Minorities, Peoples and Self-Determination,
Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2005
“The 1981 UN
Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of
Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief”, in The Challenge of
Religious Discrimination at the Dawn of the New Millennium, Leiden:
Martinus Nijhoff, 2003
“Religion and
Human Rights: Interactions and Prospects”, in The Challenge of Religious
Discrimination at the Dawn of the New Millennium, Leiden: Martinus
Nijhoff, 2003
“Faith in
Human Rights, Human Rights in Faith, in Religion, Law and Freedom, A
Global Perspective, Joel Thierstein and Yahya Kamalipour (Eds.),
Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2000, ISBN 0-275-96452-3