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Avocats Sans Frontières's Teams
Our lawyers without borders are people convinced that law and justice are tools, which should be put into practice for the dignity, protection and development of the population.
Adhering to ASFs’ principles, they put their competences at the service of the organisation so that ASF can lead its mission effectively - to contribute, completely independently, to the creation of a society that is more just, equitable and united in which law and justice service groups and/or individuals that are most vulnerable.
ASFs’ international network is made up of collaborators, mixed up of all nationalities, using the necessary jobs to lead ASF’s action effectively: lawyers, solicitors, magistrates and all other occupations that touch the legal sphere either closely or from further away. Occupations that also make up its ranks are anthropologies, sociologies, administrators, logisticians, etc. Paid or voluntary, these people work abroad and/or directly from Brussels, the organisations headquarters.
The organisation is present abroad:
In a punctual way. Sent for a short term (one or two weeks) one or more lawyers assist and/or defend each individual that cannot defend itself in front of a court, in any context of non-respect of human rights (Lawyers for lawyers, project previously named Solidarity and defense).
In a permanent way. Sent for a long term (as from 6 months) our lawyers in one of our many action programmes implanted abroad (Algeria, Burundi, East Timor, Democratic Republic of Congo, Israel and Palestine and Rwanda). In this case, they have the status of expatriate and work directly in the concerned country with our local collaborators in function of the necessities and the fixed objectives for each one of our programmes.
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ASF teams in the field
Burundi: 2 expats, 30 tot 35 local collaborators and 35 collaborating lawyers.
East Timor: 1 expat, 12 tot 15 local collaborators and 80 collaborating lawyers.
Democratic republic of Congo: 2 expats and 35 to 40 local collaborators.
Israel and Palestine: 1 officer project based in Brussels and 30 to 40 collaborating lawyers.
Rwanda: 3 expats and 25 to 30 local collaborators.
Uganda: 2 expats and 8 local collaborators
ASF team in Brussels
Francesca Boniotti
Function: Executive Director
Studies: license degree in Law, Milan University (Italy) and masters degree in Humanitarian Action, Geneva University (Switzerland)
Work Experience: Head of Mission in DRC for ASF; Human Rights Officer in DRC for UN Mission in DRC (MONUC) and legal adviser for Defense for Children International, Geneva, Switzerland, Operations Coordinator - Rwanda Desk Officer and Burundi Desk Officer
Lara Deramaix
Function: Responsible for strategic development
Job Description: coordination of the strategic process
Studies: licence degree in law, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
Work Experience: lawyer at the Brussels Bar Association, management of the projects for ASF missions in Rwanda, RDC en Burundi, punctual observation missions in Turkey, East Timor Desk Officer (2005-2007), Israel/Palestine desk officer (2008-2009)
Mohammed Azmizam
Function: Head of Administration and Logistis
Job Description: everyday adminitrative and logistics management
Work experience: computer network administrator, management and follow up of marketing campaigns
Séverine Degée
Function: Management Assistant/Office Manager
Job description: coordination of the secretariat, assistance to the mangement, administrative coordination of the office and team, monitoring of legal documents and publications
Studies: Bachelors degree in Philosophy, Bachelors degree of Education in Philosophy (ULB Brussels)
Work experience: Publications Coordinator and Media Planner (Centre of Fine Arts, Brussels), Communications Coordinator (Passa Porta, Brussels)
Dadimos Haile
Function: : Head of Thematic (Research and Policy) Department
Job Description: Policy analysis, research and counselling, legal representation and advocacy for victim's rights at the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Studies: Law degree (LL.B), Addis Abeba University Faculty of Law, Ethiopia (1990); Masters (LL.M), Centre for Advanced Legal Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1996); Doctorate (S.J.D.) Duke University School of Law, USA (2006)
Work Experience: Scholar in Residence, Institute of Development Policy & Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium; judge at the Federal High Court of Ethiopia; in-house attorney with the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia and Acting Head of the Legal Department of the Ethiopian Marine Transport Authority. Dr. Haile has conducted extensive research in the fields of international human rights law, transitional jusitce, criminal law and transitions to democracy and is a Fellow at the Centre for International law of the Free University of Brussels.
Indra Van Gisbergen
Function: Head Communications Department - Globalization of Justice Project Officer
Job Description: development and coordination of the Communications Department, management and implementation of the ASF project ‘Globalization of Justice’
Studies: license degree in Law, Gent University (Belgium) and masters degree in International and European Relations, Amsterdam School of International Relations, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Work Experience: Burundi Desk Officer and general coordinator ad interim with ASF until December 2006;Africa Desk Officer at 11.11.11/Flemish Coalition for the North-South Movement; campaign and advocacy work for Médecins Sans Frontières-Belgium with respect to their campaign “Access to essential medicines”” in Kenia based in Nairobi; MSF-B advocacy and policy officer on refugee and migration policy in Europe; ASF lawyer in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide and 4 years solicitor at the Bar of Brussels; election monitoring in Bosnia
Namuezi Fedi
Function: Rwanda and Burundi Desk Officer
Job Description: general supervision of the permanent missions in Rwanda and Burundi, strategic development, support with fundraising
Studies: Masters in International Human Rights Law, University of Essex (United Kingdom) and Masters in International and European Law, University of Marseille (France)
Work experience: protection delegate (civilan population and detention facilities) for the ICRC in Sri Lanka and Haïti, head of the consultancy office in disarmament issues of EPES Mandala Consulting in Brussels, project leader for an educational program on terrorism of the Belgian Red Cross
Chantal van Cutsem
Function: DRC Desk Officer
Job Description: daily management of DRC’s programs
Studies: license degree in Law, KUL Universtiy (Belgium)
Work Experience: law consultant for a NGO in the Philippines, then for ASF in Burundi, Rwanda, and South Soudan; lawyer specialised in foreigner's rights
Thomas Graditzky
Function: Desk Officer for Israel/Palestine
Job Description: Management of the ASF programme in Israel/Palestine
Studies: Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures (Master) in international relations (specialization: international law), Graduate institute of International Studies, Geneva (Switzerland)
Work Experience: Legal adviser for the International Commitee of the Red Cross (1997 - 2009)
Anne-Sophie Oger
Function: East Timor Desk Officer since August 2007
Job description: general supervision of the permanent mission in East Timor, strategic development, fundraising support
Studies: Professional qualification to practice law (2005), DESS (Master II) International Humanitarian Aid, Prevention, Emergency and Rehabilitation, european network NOHA; academic diploma of international jurists on the field, Faculté de Droit Aix-Marseille III (2001), Diploma of the Institute of Politic Sciences (IEP), Faculty of Law, specialization in Internatinal Law, Rennes, France (1999)
Work experience: management of the ASF projects implemented by the missions in Burundi and Rwanda (2002 to 2004) lawyer, Lille , France
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"Making Monitoring Work: Strategic Action" thursday December 17th 2009, 9.00 > 18.00
Workshop organised by ASF in cooperation with Diakonia and Al-Haq
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ROOM for JUSTICE - Amsterdam - 15/10 > 30/11/2009
A photo exhibition on Globalisation and Justice
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