Dr Ewelina U. Ochab

 

 2019 

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• 2-3 December, ‘The Recognition of the Phenomenon of the Persecution of Christians’, London, UK (chair and organiser)

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• 28 November, ‘Accountability and Acknowledgment of Genocide’ Budapest, Hungary (speaker) 

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• 28 November, ‘The Recognition of the Phenomenon of the Persecution of Christians’, Budapest, Hungary (chair and organiser) 

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• 26 November, ‘Accountability and Acknowledgment of Genocide’ Budapest, Hungary (chair and speaker) 

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• 18-19 November, ‘Istanbul Process’ the Hague, the Netherlands (attendee)

 

• 4 November, ‘The Need to Prevent the Crime of Genocide’, Launch of the Coalition for Genocide Response, UK House of Lords, London, UK (speaker) 

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• 7 October, ‘Addressing Religious Persecution Globally’, 26th BYU Conference, Provo, US (speaker) 

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• 6 October, ‘Advancing the Punta del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere’, 26th BYU Conference, Provo, US (speaker) 

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• 2-3 August, ‘Building infrastructure at the U.N. for a better implementation of the right to FoRB and prevention of the most egregious violations of the right to FoRB’, ‘Religious Persecution in the World Today: Diagnoses, Prognoses, Treatments, Cures’ Oxford, UK (speaker) 

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• 29 July, ‘Religious Persecution in the World Today’ King’s College, New York, US (podcast interviewee) 

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• 23 July: ‘UN International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief’, Parliamentary event, UK House of Parliament, London, UK (speaker and organiser) 

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• 18 July: ‘The Question of Genocide Determination in Pursuance of the Duty to Prevent and Punish’ IAGS 2019 Conference, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (speaker, remotely) 

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• 16-18 July: Ministerial on Religious Freedom, US State Department, DC, US (attendee, invitation only) 

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• 10-11 July: Defend Media Freedom Conference, UK and Canadian Governments, London, UK (attendee, invitation only) 

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• 8 July: ‘Addressing persecution and violence based on religion or belief’, ‘One Step At A Time: Addressing Religious Violence and Persecution’ Site event of the 41st UN Human Rights Council, Geneva (speaker) 

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• 24 June: ‘Two Genocides in Half a Decade: Overview, the Response and The Next Steps’, Trinity Law School, The Hague, The Netherlands (speaker) 

 

• 18 June: China Tribunal Interview, London, UK (interviewee) 

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• 14 June: ‘Legal responses to extreme cases of religious persecution: bringing Daesh to justice’ Workshop on Religious minorities in crisis: European solidarity at risk? Aston Centre for Europe (ACE), Aston University, Birmingham, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, Birmingham, UK (speaker) 

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• 1 June: ‘Equality, Equity and Human Dignity’, TEDx, London, UK (speaker) 

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• 3 April: ‘Persecution of Christians around the world’, FCO Independent Review Into Persecution of Christians, London, UK (oral submission) 

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• 5 March: ‘Steven Krulis Champion Humanity Award’, UK Parliament, London, UK (co-organiser) 

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• 18-22 February: ‘Explanatory note on the Punta del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere’ BYU, US (researcher and drafter) 

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• 20 February: ‘The case of the Daesh genocide and the needed legal responses’ BYU, Provo, US (speaker) 

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• 2 January: ‘Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s Middle Belt’ BBC World, London, UK (interviewee) 

 

 

2018

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• 12-14 December: ‘Religious Nature of the Mass Atrocities in Burma’, NUS-BYU Conference Singapore. (Speaker)

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• 1-5 December: ‘Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere’, Punta Del Este, Uruguay (Secretary and member of the working group)

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• 27 November: ‘Genocide Convention at 70: Lessons Learned and Yet to be Learned’, UK Parliament, Speaker’s House, London, UK. (Moderator and organiser)

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• 8 October: ‘Daesh Genocide and Nadia’s Nobel Peace Prize’, Top of Mind with Julie Rosie, BYU, Provo, US. (Speaker)

 

• 8 October: ‘Genocide as the Ultimate Denial of Human Dignity’, 25th BYU Conference, Provo, US. (Speaker​

 

• 13 September: ‘A new approach to help Iraqi minorities’, 5th ICLRS Conference, Rio, Brazil. (Speaker)

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• 4 August: ‘Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere: Responding to Distortions, Abuses and Hostility towards Human Rights’ ICLRS, BYU, OJLR, Oxford, UK. (Speaker, summary presentation)

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• 25 July: ‘Between Scylla and Charybdis?  Preventing The Historical Fate of Religious Minorities’ ICLRS Writers Course, Oxford, UK. (Speaker, book proposal presentation)

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• 18 July: ‘The Question of Genocide Determination in the UK’ , All Party Parliamentary Group on Burma meeting, House of Commons, London, UK. (Speaker)

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• 17 July: ‘20 Years of the Rome Statute’, Al Jazeera, London, UK. (Speaker)

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• 6 July: ‘Bringing Daesh to Justice’, Founding Conference on Bringing ISIS to Justice, The Hague, The Netherlands. (Speaker and co-organiser)

 

•  4 July: ‘Persecution of Religious Minorities: The Case of Women and Girls’ The International Conference on Human Right, Warsaw, Poland. (Speaker)

 

• 27 June: ‘Daesh Genocide Against Religious Minorities: Overview And The Next Steps’, Trinity Law School, The Hague, The Netherlands. (Speaker)

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• 21 June: ‘Daesh and Genocide: Prosecuting Terrorism and The Counter Terrorism Risks at Home’ Foreign Policy and Geopolitics in the Era of President Trump, Oxford, UK. (Speaker)

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• 20 March: ‘The Question of Genocide Determination: Behind the Argument of 'International Judicial System’’, Parliamentary Hearing, House of Lords, London, UK. (Organiser and speaker) 

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• 8 March: ‘Boston Roundtable: Edward Lansdale's Vietnam: Lessons for Afghanistan and Iraq’  Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA, US. (Roundtable attendee)​​

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• 6-9 March: ‘Religious Persecution in the Middle East’, Series of Lectures at Universities and Colleges in Boston, MA, US. (Speaker)

 

2017

 

• 4 December: ‘The Rights to Return: Their Only Hope’, Expert Workshop, University of Stefana Wyszynskiego, Warsaw, Poland. (speaker)

 

• 17 November: ‘The Right to Return under International Law and the Empirical Reality’, Third European Congress for Defending Christians, Krakow, Poland. (speaker)

 

• 11-13 October: International Consultation on Christian Persecution – Finding the Appropriate Answers to a Long-Neglected Crisis Persecution of Christians, Conference and Workshop, Hungarian Department of Human Capacities, Budapest, Hungary. (attendee)

 

• 28 September: ‘The Right to Return under International Law’, ‘Return to the Roots: Christians in the Nineveh Plains’ Aid to the Church in Need Conference, Rome, Italy. (speaker)

 

• 22 September: ‘The Situation of Religious Minorities in Iraq’, ‘Untold Experiences of Vulnerable Refugees’ Conference, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. (speaker)

 

• 4 August: ‘The Situation of Religious Minorities in Iraq’, Philos Project Fellows Workshop, New York, US. (speaker)

 

• 12 July: ‘Convention on Genocide Approaching 70’, The Thirteenth Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Brisbane, Australia. (speaker)

 

• 22-23 June: 'The Impact of Counter-Extremism Strategy on the Enjoyment of the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in the UK', OSCE/ODIHR First Supplementary meeting, Vienna, Austria. (speaker) 

 

• 25 April: ‘Prosecuting and Punishing the Crimes Against Humanity or Even Possible Genocide Committed by Daesh’, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Hearing, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France. (speaker)

 

• 6 April: ‘Daesh Atrocities Against Women and Girls and the Needed Response’, European Centre for the Study of Extremism Conference on Syria, London, UK. (speaker)

 

• 26-27 January: Persecution of Christians, Conference and Workshop, Hungarian Department of Human Capacities, Budapest, Hungary. (attendee)

 

2016

 

• 14 December: ‘Bringing Daesh to Justice’, Parliamentary Hearing, Dutch Parliament, Den Haag, the Netherlands. (speaker) 

 

• 26 November: ‘Attacks on Christians by Fulani Herdsmen and Boko Haram’, ‘Embattled: Christians Under Pressure in Europe and Beyond’ Conference, Vienna, Austria. (speaker)

 

• 24 November: ‘Situation in the Recently Liberated Nineveh Plains’, Oral Submission, UN Forum on Minority Issues 2016, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. (speaker)

 

• 24 November: ‘Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East’, Book Presentation, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. (speaker)

 

• 6 November: ‘Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East’, Book Presentation, Second European Congress for Defending Christians, Krakow, Poland. (speaker)

 

• 10 July 2016: ‘Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East’, Book Presentation, Bratislava, Slovakia. (speaker)

 

• 30 June: ‘Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East’, Book Presentation, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium. (speaker)

 

2015

 

• 28 September: ‘Situation of Christians and Religious Minorities in Syria’, Oral Submission, UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland. (speaker)