She also hold a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) in History of the XXth Century (International Relations) from the Robert Schuman STRASBOURG III University. a Degree in Applied Foreign Languages (French-English-German) from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University PARIS III.

Her current research interests and publications include: European Political Integration, Human Rights and Democratisation, Women and Politics, Europeanization/Cyprus-EU relations, EU Mediterranean Policy/ Partnership.

As a political sociologist and migration scholar, her broad areas of interest cover migrant precarity and decent work, advocacy politics and strategies, multi-layered governance of labour migration (with specific interest in the role of the ILO) and gendered migration.

Her work cuts across human rights studies, development studies and the emerging field of global and transnational social policy. Nicola’s empirical focus is on the Asia-Pacific region but she has conducted fieldwork in Latin America, Europe and Oceania, and is involved in research consortia which include Africa.

PhD in Law was awarded by the University of Lisbon, where she has taught for many years before moving to NOVA in 1998.

Her main fields of interest are Criminal Law and Procedure, Gender, Equality and Discrimination, Human Rights. Non-academic affiliations include: Member of Public Prosecutors Governing Council (1996-2000); Vice-President of “Centro de Bem Estar Social”, Parish of Sesimbra, daycare centre for children from 6 months up to 10 years of age (1997-2002); EU expert in EU-China and EU-Iran Dialogues on Human Rights (1999-2002); Member of the CPT (Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Council of Europe) in reference of Portugal (1999-2003).

Professor on Migration & Human Rights at the Master on Human Rights (UNLA), Master in Human Rights and Democratization (National University of San Martin) and Law School (University of Buenos Aires). Member of the Advisory Board of the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty.

He has been Consultant of UNICEF, ILO and UNFPA on initiatives on migration policices and human rights. Member of Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA). Former Coordinator of the Legal Clinic for Immigrants and Refugees’ Rights (University of Buenos Aires) and former Coordinator of the Program on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CELS, Argentina). Lawyer (University of Buenos Aires). PhD in Human Rights (University of Valencia, Spain; Thesis on the rights of children in the context of migration). Master in International Migration and Migration Law (European University of Madrid).

Chemaly is the author of an in-depth research on civil movements and revolutions, published at L'Harmattan, Paris, and co-author of a roadmap on Lebanese legislation related to women. Chemaly is a lecturer on political sociology, social media and advocacy.

She is also responsible of projects with International agencies such as UNFPA, NGOs, collectives and research centers and national women machinery (NCLW) working in the field of human rights, development and gender in Lebanon. Additionally, she blogs on democracy, the rule of law, discrimination and gender issues in Lebanon and the Arab World.

He is a lawyer by training with 13 years of previous experience in an academic setting. He has written widely on the human rights of migrants, international labour migration, and various aspects of European law and policy relating to migration and asylum. In particular, he is the author of Migrant Workers in International Human Rights Law: Their Protection in Countries of Employment (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997) and two publications for the Council of Europe The Legal Status of Migrants Admitted for Employment (2004), and Irregular Migrants: Access to Minimum Social Rights (2005).

Most recently, he was the lead author of Addressing governance challenges in a changing labour migration landscape , thethe report for the general discussion on labour migration at the 106th Session of the International Labour Conference in June 2017. He was also one of the principal authors of the Handbook for Parliamentarians on Migration, human rights and governance  (October 2015), a joint publication of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the ILO and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Prior to joining the ILO in September 2010, he was a Senior Migration Policy and Research Specialist at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva and Reader in Law at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. While at IOM, he was co-editor-in-chief of World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy and co-authored two editions of the Handbook on Establishing Effective Labour Migration Policies in Countries of Origin and Destination  (2006, 2007), a joint publication of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), IOM and ILO.

He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa, a Master in Laws degree from the University of Saskatchewan, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Leicester.

He was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants between 2011 and 2017. In this capacity, he has conducted official visits to Albania, Tunisia, Turkey, Italy (two times), Greece (two times), Qatar, Sri Lanka, Malta, the European institutions in Brussels and Vienna (several times), Angola, Australia and Nauru. He has also produced several thematic reports: the detention of migrants, the protection of migrants’ rights at the external borders of the European Union (two times), climate change and migration, global migration governance (two times), labour exploitation of migrants, labour recruitment practices, trade agreements and migration. He was the Chair of the Coordination Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Procedures (2014-2015).

He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Migration Initiative of the Open Society Foundations (NY). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Bureau for Children’s Rights (Montreal). He is a member of several editorial boards: Journal of Refugee Studies, International Journal of Refugee Law, Refuge, Droits fondamentaux, European Journal of Human Rights, Inter Gentes – McGill Journal of International Law & Legal Pluralism. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, and an Advocatus Emeritus of the Quebec Bar Association. He heads the “Mondialisation et droit international” collection (29 books published to date) at Éditions Bruylant-Larcier (Brussels).

He has given many conferences, published numerous articles, and written, edited or coedited ten books: Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law (2017). Human Rights & Diverse Societies (2014), Terrorism, Law and Democracy: 10 Years after 9/11 – Terrorisme, Droit et Démocratie : 10 ans après le 11 septembre 2001 (2012), Recueil de droit des réfugiés: Instruments, Jurisprudences et Documents (The Refugee Law Reader) (1re éd. 2010, 2e éd. 2012), Les migrations internationales contemporaines – Une dynamique complexe au cœur de la globalisation (2009), Penser l'international, Perspectives et contributions des sciences sociales (2007), Forced Migration and Global Processes - A View from Forced Migration Studies (2006), Les juridictions internationales: complémentarité ou concurrence ? (2005), Mondialisation des échanges et fonctions de l'État (1997), Droit d'asile : De l'hospitalité aux contrôles migratoires (1995).

She has collaborated with Deutsche Welle in Portuguese since 2006. During her professional career she has been reporting in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Egypt, Malaysia, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, East Timor, the United States, etc.

In parallel to her journalistic activity, she is a trainer of DW Akademie. She has been a lecturer in journalism courses for peace, political journalism, journalism in conflict regions and economic journalism in East Timor, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and Namibia.

After leaving the Balkans and a short experience with a Women’s Rights NGO in Islamabad, Pakistan, she moved to Kyrgyzstan, where she held different positions with UNHCR, OHCHR and UNDP with focus on post emergency humanitarian and human rights work as well as peace-building.

In mid-2014, she joined UNHCR in the Middle-East and North Africa Bureau in Amman and Cairo, with focus on sexual and gender-based violence in post emergency situations. As of October 2014, she is working with UNHCR, Safe from the Start, focusing on prevention of and response to sexual and gender based violence in emergency situation, including in Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Italy.

Member of the Comité pour le Concours Jean Pictet since 2003. Member of the National Committee for Human Rights, 2009-2012. Counsellor of Greece before the International Court of Justice in the case on Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Italy v. Germany, Greece intervening), 2011-2012.

Protection Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Sri Lanka, 1997-1999, Cooperation Delegate 2000-2002, IHL Consultant for the Hellenic Red Cross. Numerous publications on state responsibility for serious violations of international law; war crimes; crimes against humanity and genocide, as well as on humanitarian law and action; human rights and refugee and migration protection.

She regularly works with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the area of medical and psychosocial response to sexual violence, with the All Survivors Project (ASP) on research on conflict-related sexual violence against men and boys, and with other national and international non-governmental organisations in several contexts.

With a background in international and diplomatic sciences, Laura obtained a European Master’s (E.MA) in Human Rights and Democratisation from the Global Campus of Human Rights (GC) in 2007 and qualified as an Independent Sexual Violence Advocate (ISVA) from the University of Worcester (UK) in 2016.

She is concurrently the Director of the Ateneo Graduate Legal Studies Institute and the Urduja Women’s Desk of the Ateneo Human Rights Center. She joined the faculty in 1991.

In 2002, she introduced Gender and the Law, an elective which discusses women’s rights and gender discrimination. She is also a Professorial Lecturer in International and Human Rights Law at the Philippine Judicial Academy. She has been involved in the training of judges, court lawyers and personnel in human rights, women’s rights and gender sensitivity; and continues to lecture on these topics and on other emerging human rights and gender-related issues.