Human Rights Consultancy is a consultancy firm based in the Netherlands that offers consultancy on human rights issues such as human rights due diligence for the corporate sector, modern slavery risk in supply chains, and the application process to join the UN global Compact.
Other services include advising civil society organisations and governments on post conflict related matters such as participation of women, elections, displacement, justice sector reform, security sector reform, and civil affairs. Geographic coverage includes Afghanistan, the Middle East, Northern Africa, the Caucasus and the Balkans.
In its interventions Human Rights Consultancy pays attention to the local context through language skills and by using local experts. Interventions are driven by local needs using community engagement as a strategy to identify needs and priorities, as well as abilities or potential to promote stability, peace and reconstruction.
Clients include companies, governments, NGOs and international organization such as UNDP and the EU.
Human Rights Consultancy helped us to create an e-learning module in the field of Human Rights which has been rolled out worldwide under Wildlife Rangers. Human Rights is an extremely complex subject, but thanks to the input provided by Human Rights Consultancy, we were able to make the best possible combination of the legal elements and transfer it to the workplace.
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Sander Agterhuis is an experienced and committed Human Rights Lawyer who has broad experience in the Balkans, Afghanistan, the Middle East, and the Caucasus, dealing with a range of human rights issues such as modern slavery in supply chains, rights of migrant workers and asylum seekers, child rights, housing rights, freedom of movement, torture, and under aged recruitment. Other areas of work include capacity building of local authorities, justice sector reform, civil society engagement, gender issues, WPS, Rule of Law matters, IDP and minority issues, elections monitoring, report writing and project management.
Vasiliki Chatzikamari is a Senior-Consultant with over twenty years of experience in human rights, social development and good governance for the benefit of marginalized and disadvantaged groups, such as women, youth, religious and ethnic minorities, refugees; experienced in the management of teams and projects and the development of human resources, including the submission of grand proposals and raising of funds; expert on gender issues, especially on combating gender-based violence and counselling for women on career development (employment and entrepreneurship) and the development of gender-sensitive state policies. Established a record in research, adult training on human rights, social integration and development and observation of elections.
Scott Collins is a dedicated, versatile and results-oriented senior international development and criminal justice professional with extensive experience of criminal prosecutions, investigations and protection. He has many years of experience in building capacity in those areas in developing and transitional states including Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, South Sudan and Liberia.
Xavier Blais is an experienced and committed Human Rights Lawyer who has broad working experience in in conflict and post-conflict settings with international organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa. Xavier has specialized his career in Human Rights, gender, political, civil affairs work and counter terrorism. In the past several years in the UN system, he has also taken on managerial and supervisory roles acquiring progressively responsible experience in operational environments, political and security issues, resources management, including at least fifteen years of senior management experience, with the UN in the Balkans, Nepal, Sri Lanka, East Africa, the UN mission in Cote d'Ivoire and currently in Ukraine with the OSCE as Acting Team Leader of the Monitors. He also has a commendable experience in coordinating related actions with multiple field offices and mission components added to planning and organizing programs. Finally, he has a commendable experience as mediator in conflict and speaks more than seven languages.
Amal Hamdan is a published and award winning researcher, electoral systems expert, MENA political analyst and news producer. Amal is a technical electoral systems expert with experience working for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) to assess and explain Iraq’s legislative electoral system, including all reforms to the electoral system undertaken since 2004, the impact of these electoral reforms on the country’s ethnic and religious divisions and the electoral alliances formed prior May 2018 parliamentary elections. She also contributed to an IFES briefing paper explaining Lebanon’s 2017 electoral law and its political implications. Amal is completing a PhD on the causes of electoral reforms in political systems where constitutions create strong presidencies at King’s College London. Amal was previously a Middle East-based senior news and program producer for Aljazeera Television, which provided her with practical experience in political analysis and a vast network of state and non-state Middle East political actors.
Jonas Hult is an experienced Police Lawyer with wide experience in Security Sector Reform from Europe, West Africa and North Africa, in areas like policing, criminal intelligence, crisis management, border security, election security, and migration. The work has been directed to support senior government officials, senior rule of law managers and civil society representatives.
Neïla Mangin is a human rights law graduate with a strong interest in business and human rights issues. She wrote her master thesis on the extraterritorial obligation of states to protect human rights in the context of transnational business activities. She has experience in African women’s rights advocacy and in providing legal counselling to migrants on their right to stay in France. She writes articles on legal developments in the field of human rights on her blog Human Rights Insights.
Robin Llewellyn is a human rights journalist and communications consultant with a master’s degree in Human Rights and a further master’s degree in journalism. He has worked in communications in the public, private, and third sectors, and has a particular interest in the relationship between human rights and environmental, agricultural, and indigenous issues. An experienced investigator who is fluent in Spanish, Robin has conducted human rights research across Latin America.
Giorgia Varvello is a socially involved human rights law graduate with valuable experience in the public and corporate sector. Social and accurate, with a strong sense of cross-organizational interests, project management and human rights risk assessment. Expertise on business & human rights, Corporate Social Responsibility/due diligence, with a particular focus on children rights, gender and community. Additional experience on the field by means of various volunteering experiences in Ghana with children; with offenders; and with victims on human trafficking.
Dr Matchett is a security expert and bestselling author with a 30-yr career in British policing. From Afghanistan and Iraq to Jordan and Libya, he has been a criminal justice expert, head of training on police reform projects and researcher in community policing for different state actors. He has lectured at venues such as the Pentagon. He wrote Secret Victory, has been a security commentator on the BBC and worked on television documentaries. He is published in journals and books like ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy.’ He enjoys long walks, history and new challenges.
Darsheenee Raumnauth is from Mauritius. She holds both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Psychology and Law (BA (Hons) Psychology and MA Psychology from the University of Delhi; LLM/Mphil Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria). She recently completed a consultancy for Samuel Hall Consulting on migration where she interviewed voluntary and forced returnees on their perception of migration and return, reintegration programming in Mauritius. Darsheenee has extensive experience in field work, interviews and data analysis.
Sander Agterhuis is an experienced and committed Human Rights Lawyer who has broad experience in the Balkans, Afghanistan, the Middle East, and the Caucasus, dealing with a range of human rights issues such as modern slavery in supply chains, rights of migrant workers and asylum seekers, child rights, housing rights, freedom of movement, torture, and under aged recruitment. Other areas of work include capacity building of local authorities, justice sector reform, civil society engagement, gender issues, WPS, Rule of Law matters, IDP and minority issues, elections monitoring, report writing and project management.
Scott Collins is a dedicated, versatile and results-oriented senior international development and criminal justice professional with extensive experience of criminal prosecutions, investigations and protection. He has many years of experience in building capacity in those areas in developing and transitional states including Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, South Sudan and Liberia.
Amal Hamdan is a published and award winning researcher, electoral systems expert, MENA political analyst and news producer. Amal is a technical electoral systems expert with experience working for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) to assess and explain Iraq’s legislative electoral system, including all reforms to the electoral system undertaken since 2004, the impact of these electoral reforms on the country’s ethnic and religious divisions and the electoral alliances formed prior May 2018 parliamentary elections. She also contributed to an IFES briefing paper explaining Lebanon’s 2017 electoral law and its political implications. Amal is completing a PhD on the causes of electoral reforms in political systems where constitutions create strong presidencies at King’s College London. Amal was previously a Middle East-based senior news and program producer for Aljazeera Television, which provided her with practical experience in political analysis and a vast network of state and non-state Middle East political actors.
Vasiliki Chatzikamari is a Senior-Consultant with over twenty years of experience in human rights, social development and good governance for the benefit of marginalized and disadvantaged groups, such as women, youth, religious and ethnic minorities, refugees; experienced in the management of teams and projects and the development of human resources, including the submission of grand proposals and raising of funds; expert on gender issues, especially on combating gender-based violence and counselling for women on career development (employment and entrepreneurship) and the development of gender-sensitive state policies. Established a record in research, adult training on human rights, social integration and development and observation of elections.
Xavier Blais is an experienced and committed Human Rights Lawyer who has broad working experience in in conflict and post-conflict settings with international organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa. Xavier has specialized his career in Human Rights, gender, political, civil affairs work and counter terrorism. In the past several years in the UN system, he has also taken on managerial and supervisory roles acquiring progressively responsible experience in operational environments, political and security issues, resources management, including at least fifteen years of senior management experience, with the UN in the Balkans, Nepal, Sri Lanka, East Africa, the UN mission in Cote d'Ivoire and currently in Ukraine with the OSCE as Acting Team Leader of the Monitors. He also has a commendable experience in coordinating related actions with multiple field offices and mission components added to planning and organizing programs. Finally, he has a commendable experience as mediator in conflict and speaks more than seven languages.
Jonas Hult is an experienced Police Lawyer with wide experience in Security Sector Reform from Europe, West Africa and North Africa, in areas like policing, criminal intelligence, crisis management, border security, election security, and migration. The work has been directed to support senior government officials, senior rule of law managers and civil society representatives.
Neïla Mangin is a human rights law graduate with a strong interest in business and human rights issues. She wrote her master thesis on the extraterritorial obligation of states to protect human rights in the context of transnational business activities. She has experience in African women’s rights advocacy and in providing legal counselling to migrants on their right to stay in France. She writes articles on legal developments in the field of human rights on her blog Human Rights Insights.
Giorgia Varvello is a socially involved human rights law graduate with valuable experience in the public and corporate sector. Social and accurate, with a strong sense of cross-organizational interests, project management and human rights risk assessment. Expertise on business & human rights, Corporate Social Responsibility/due diligence, with a particular focus on children rights, gender and community. Additional experience on the field by means of various volunteering experiences in Ghana with children; with offenders; and with victims on human trafficking.
Darsheenee Raumnauth is from Mauritius. She holds both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Psychology and Law (BA (Hons) Psychology and MA Psychology from the University of Delhi; LLM/Mphil Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria). She recently completed a consultancy for Samuel Hall Consulting on migration where she interviewed voluntary and forced returnees on their perception of migration and return, reintegration programming in Mauritius. Darsheenee has extensive experience in field work, interviews and data analysis.
