de Varennes, Fernand
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A graduate from the Université de Moncton (LLB), the London School of Economics and Political Science (LLM), and Maastricht University (DrJuris), Fernand de Varennes is a former Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Human Rights and the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict in Perth, Australia, and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law. He is a Scientific Advisor with the International Observatory on Language Rights at the Université de Moncton, as well as combining visiting professorships at Faculty of Law at Hong Kong University in China and the Maldives National University's Faculty of Shari'ah and Law, in the Maldives.
Dr de Varennes is recognised as one of the world's leading legal experts on language rights and has written some 200 publications in the field which have appeared in 26 languages; as part of this recognition, he was awarded the 2004 Linguapax Award, was put forward as a 2004 nominee for the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights in South Korea, and chosen holder of the prestigious Tip O'Neill Peace Fellowship at INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity) in Northern Ireland. His research work also deals with human and minority rights, as well as ethnic conflicts. He has in addition been involved as an expert with numerous international organisations such as UNESCO, the OSCE's High Commissioner on National Minorities, and the United Nations, in addition to acting as a legal adviser in the case of Raihman v. Latvia (2010, UN Human Rights Committee) and the drafting of a proposed law on language rights for Northern Ireland and South Africa, amongst others.
His more recent major publications include a 2012 report on the language rights of indigenous peoples for the UN Expert Mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples, a UNESCO report on the rights of migrants, and a series of reports for Minority Rights Group International on minorities in Asia.
Professor Fernand de Varennes
Email : FdeVarennes@gmail.com
Categories : Justice
Last Update : 2012-09-02
