National legal experts and RM representatives

Croatia
Vanja-Ivan Savić
Professor, Catholic University of Croatia

Denmark
Lisbet B. Christoffersen
Professor, Roskilde University
https://forskning.ruc.dk/da/persons/lisbet-b-christoffersen

Niels Valdemar Vinding
Associate Professor, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen
https://research.ku.dk/search/result/?pure=en%2Fpersons%2F220370

Egypt
Ishak Ibrahim
Researcher, advocate and campaigner specialized in issues related to Freedom of Religion and Belief and religious minorities at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)
https://www.eipr.org/publications?date_filter%5Bvalue%5D%5Byear%5D=&tid_i18n=All&tid_i18n_1=688

France
Anne Fornerod
Chargé de recherche, CNRS/University of Strasbourg
https://univ-droit.fr/universitaires/18231-fornerod-anne

Greece
Effie Fokas
Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), London School of Economics Hellenic Observatory
https://www.eliamep.gr/en/members/effie-fokas-grassrootsmobilise/

Italy
Silvio Ferrari
Fondazione Bruno Kessler and University of Milan
https://isr.fbk.eu/it/people/detail/silvio-ferrari/

Lebanon
Joe Hammoura
Researcher on Middle Eastern Affairs, Human Rights activist, and consultant on Human Rights and Minorities
https://www.meirss.org/author/joe-hammoura/page/3/

Portugal
Jónatas Machado
Director of the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra
https://apps.uc.pt/mypage/faculty/jonatas

Republic of Cyprus
Achilles Emilianides
Professor, University of Nicosia
https://www.unic.ac.cy/emilianides-achilles/

Türkiye
Esra Unal
Visiting lecturer, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
https://www.khas.edu.tr/en/dr-esra-unal-joined-khas-faculty-of-law/

 

 

Data on the effective implementation of the rights of RMs and on their perception of discrimination have been collected through a questionnaire administered to official contacts of some RMs in each of the countries covered by the research. Among the RMs contacted, the following agreed to answer the questionnaire: 

Algeria: Catholic Church, Evangelical Churches

Croatia: Evangelical Churches, Mainline Protestant Churches, Muslim communities

Denmark: Islamic Cultural Center, Jehovah’s Witnesses

Egypt: Bahai community, Ahmadi community, Shia community, Coptic Orthodox Church

France: Evangelical Churches, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mainline Protestant Churches

Greece: Equal Society/Muslim Association of Greece, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roman Catholic Church, Jewish Orthodox community, Mainline Protestants

Italy: Evangelical Waldensian Church, Islamic Community (COREIS), Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), Jehovah’s Witnesses

Lebanon: Catholic and Orthodox Syriac Churches, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Ahmadi Community,  high ranking Sheikhs from the Alawite Community.

Portugal: Jewish Community of Porto, Jehovah's Witnesses, Presbyterian Church of Portugal (IEPP), Romanian Orthodox Church

Republic of Cyprus: Catholic Church, Jewish communities

Türkiye: Catholic Church

 

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