New ERRC Board of Directors

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New ERRC Board of Directors


The European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) is proud to announce the
election of a new board of directors of the ERRC. As of June 1, 1999,
the board will be co-chaired by Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC and Ms
Eva Orsos.
 
Eva Orsos (Hungary) has a degree in education and is a former teacher
of mathematics. She was a member of an advisory group to the Hungarian
Ministry of Health before becoming head of the Office for National and
Ethnic Minorities of the Government of Hungary in the period
1994-1998. She is also a member of the board of the Soros Foundation
in Hungary.

Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC (UK) is a leading human rights advocate
and has been instrumental in shaping Britain's equal opportunities
legislation and in the campaign for a Bill of Rights in Britain. He
has been Queen's Counsel since 1975 and is president of Interights
(International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights).
 
The other members of the new ERRC board are as follows:
 
Isabel Fonseca (U.K.) is a freelance journalist and writer who lives
in London. She is the author of the book Bury Me Standing (1995)
written on the basis of her travels through Romani communities in
Central and Eastern Europe.
 
Gabor Halmai (Hungary) has been a professor of Law at the University
of Economics in Budapest, Hungary, as well as working at the Hungarian
Consitutional Court. He was instrumental in establishing the Human
Rights programme at the Central European University and also founded
the Budapest-based Human Rights Information and Documentation Centre.
He is presently its director. Mr Halmai publishes regularly on issues
of constitutional law.
 
Deborah Harding (USA) was program director of the German Marshall Fund
of the United States, and  was one of the most successful Western aid
experts who helped build civil society and human rights culture in
Eastern Europe.

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