CONTRIBUTORS
Suzette Bronkhurst of the Magenta Foundation, Netherlands, is a former chief
editor of a Dutch Green Party publication, and initiator and general manager of the
Internet Centre Anti-Racism (I-CARE).
Erica-Irene A. Daes is a Special Rapporteur of the UN Sub-Commission on Human
Rights, and former Chairperson of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations
which drafted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She submitted
a UN-commissioned Study on the Protection of the Culture and Intellectual
Property of Indigenous Peoples in 1993.
Kenneth Deer is currently publisher/editor of the newspaper The Eastern Door,
and a citizen of the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake. He has many years of experience
at the international level representing his community.
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at
Princeton University.
André Frankovits is Executive Director of the Human Rights Council of Australia.
Marquetta L. Goodwine is Chieftess of the Gullah-Geechee Nation and editor of The
Legacy of Ibo Landing: Gullah Roots of African American Culture. The South
Carolina General Assembly will award Ms.Goodwine the 2001 Jean Laney Harris
Folk Heritage Award.
Françoise Jane Hampson is an expert with the United Nations Sub-Commission.
She is Professor of Law in the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, where she
teaches international humanitarian law and the law of armed conflicts.
Mehdi M. Imberesh is a Professor in the Social Sciences Faculty of Al-Fateh University,
Tripoli. He started his political activities in the People’s Committee of the
Jamahiriyan People’s Bureau in Washington, DC during the years 1979-81, was
appointed in the capacity of Ameen of the Jamahiriyan People’s Bureau to the
Federal Republic of Germany from 1981 to 1986, and since then to the Islamic
Republic of Iran.
The Right Honourable Gerald Kaufman is a member of the British Parliament and
former member of the Privy Council. He was Minister of State for Industry and a
Privy Counsellor of the Labour Government of 1974. He was a member of the
Labour Party’s Shadow Cabinet from 1980 to 1992 and presently is Member of
Parliament for the Manchester constituency of Gorton.
Y. N. Kly is Chair of IHRAAM and professor of international law at the School of
Human Justice of the University of Regina, Canada. He is author of numerous
books and articles on minorities and societal development, two of which were
.named Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human
Rights, co-sponsored by major U.S. civil rights organizations.
Dr. Hans Koechler, Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Innsbruck,
Austria and Director of the International Progress Organization, Vienna. Since 1998,
Professor Koechler has served as member of the Council of Europe’s Expert Group on
Democratic Citizenship. As President of IPO, he dealt with the humanitarian issues of
the exchange of prisoners of war between Iran and Iraq, and with the issue of Kuwaiti
POWs and missing people in Iraq. Since 1972, UN Secretaries-General have acknowledged
Professor Koechler’s contribution to international peace in their statements.
Joseph v. Komlóssy is Vice President of the Federal Union of European Nationalities
(FUEN), one of the most prestigious NGO-s, with consultative status at the
Council of Europe and at the United Nations Organisation, seated at Flensburg,
Germany. He is an advocate of ethnic and national minorities, a member of the
Working Group on Minorities of the United Nations, regularly attending the sessions
of the Comission on Human Rights. He is present at all parliamentary sessions
of the Council of Europe, and participates in the work of OSCE/ODIR in
Warsaw and Vienna. His presentations and interventions are guided by the principle:
”Act in time, instead of reacting too late.”
Mme. Ragnhild Nystad is Vice-President of the Sami Parliament, Norway, and also
head of political affairs. She was involved in the establishment of the Sami Act
(Norway) in 1987 and the Norwegian Constitutional Amendment in 1988 which
gives the Sami People in Norway status as indigenous people and the right to
establish their own indigenous parliament.
Karen Parker, Chief/Delegate of the International Educational Developmental/
Humanitarian Law Project at the United Nations, is an attorney specializing in human
rights and humanitarian (armed conflict) law. Her annual “Armed Conflict Around the
World: A Country by Country Review” is published by the Parliamentary Human
Rights Group (UK) (now on Internet). Her extensive work on self-determination
includes studies, Congressional testimony and Court appearances on application of
self-determination to the armed struggles in Burma, Kashmir, Acheh, the Moluccas,
East Timor, Tibet, Cyprus, Turkey, Western Sahara and Sri Lanka.
George Reid is Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
Majid Tramboo is a Member of IHRAAM Directorate & Director, International
Council for Human Rights, United Kingdom. He is a Barrister practicing in the
United Kingdom.
Daniel Turp served as Canadian Member of Parliament and Bloc Quebeçois Critic
for Intergovernmental Affairs from 1999-2000 and Bloc Quebeçois spokesperson
for Foreign Affairs, 1997-1999. He served as a designated expert on the Belanger-
Campeau Commission on the political and constitutional future of Quebec (1991),
and on the Commission Studying Questions Related to the Accession of Quebec to
Sovereignty, 1992.
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