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Dr. Vinodh Jaichand

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Dr. Vinodh Jaichand

vinodh.jaichandnuigalway.ie

Room 201

Tel: 353 (91) 492819

Dr. Vinodh Jaichand is the Deputy Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights. He has directed the Ph D Programme at the Centre from 2003 to 2006 and the LL M Programme from 2006 to 2008. He is the author of Restitution of Land Rights and has co-edited 60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Europe and Anti-Discrimination for the Judiciary.

He was formerly Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Durban-Westville in South Africa. In the years prior to joining the Centre, he served as National Executive Director of Lawyers for Human Rights for more than five years. He completed his Doctorate in Juridical Science degree ( summa cum) and a LL M degree ( magna cum laude) at Notre Dame Law School at the Centre for Civil and Human Rights, and the LL B degree at the University of Natal. Another LL M degree was completed at the University of Miami while the BA degree and a Secondary Teachers’ Diploma were completed at the University of Durban-Westville.

Vinodh has been involved in the training of police, lawyers, prosecutors, and judges in China, South Africa, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Ireland, Ethiopia, Nepal and India. Apart from English he is published in Chinese, German, Portuguese and Spanish in numerous journals around the world. He has presented papers in twenty-five countries.

He holds membership in the Editorial Review Board Human Rights Series of the Republic of Letters Publishing, the Editorial Review Board of Human Rights & Human Welfare, in the Advisory Board of the Sur-International Journal on Human Rights, in the International Advisory Board of Diakonia, Jerusalem. He was the first Chairman of the Board of Integrating Ireland. He is a member of Consulting Editorial Board of the University of Ghana Law Journal and reader for the International Journal for Transitional Justice.

Vinodh has taught and examined in the Mediterranean Masters on Human Rights and Democratisation in Malta and acted as an examiner in the European Masters in Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice. He has been the architect of the LL M in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which was launched in September 2009.

He has served on the Standards Generating Body on Legal Education and Training of the South African Qualifications Authority and as an Independent Assessor by the Council on Higher Education: Department of Education and as the Ministerial Representative on the Council of Technikon Pretoria. He is an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa.

Selected publications available online here

AREAS OF RESEARCH

· Social, Economic and Cultural Rights

· Regional Systems of Protecting Human Rights outside Europe

· Access to Justice Issues

· Racial Discrimination

· Land Rights

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

· Courting Justice: Constitutionalisms in Brazil, India and South Africa

· Sovereignty, Economic Globalization and Human Rights

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

· Sixty Years of the UDHR in Europe: Diversity within the Unity, co-authored with Markku Suksi. European Yearbook on Human Rights 21-35, 2009.

· The Right to Restitution of Land in THE BILL OF RIGHTS COMPENDIUM, Butterworths, Durban 2009.

· Afterword in 60 YEARS, 30 PERSPECTIVES: IRELAND AND THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, Amnesty International, New Island, Dublin 2009, 203-8.

· Concluding Remarks on Europe in 60 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION IN EUROPE. Chapter co-written with Markku Suksi, Intersentia, 2009.

· Ireland: From Domestic Pre-Occupations to Wider Reception in 60 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EUROPE. Chapter co-written with Attracta Ingram, Intersentia, 2009.

· Introduction to 60 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EUROPE. Chapter co-written with Markku Suksi, Intersentia ,2009.

Reports

· BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS: TACKLING RACISM IN IRELAND AT THE LEVEL OF THE STATE AND ITS INSTITUTIONS, Report for Amnesty International (Irish Section), Dublin 2006 ISBN: 0-86210-402-5. Co-authored with Louise Beirne (which can be accessed here)

· RIDING ALONG WITH RACISM? Research on the Galway Taxi Industry: Employment Opportunities, Patterns of Public Use and User Perceptions, Irish Centre for Human Rights 10 December 2010 (which can be accessed here)

Chapters

· Navi Pillay: Overcoming the Odds, in PROTECTING HUMANITY Essays in Honour of Navanetham Pillay, Brill, Leiden, 2010, 15-23

· Impetus for Rebellion? Self-determination and Minority Rights in South Africa in STELLA IURIS Hoctor & Kidd (eds.) Juta, Cape Town, 2010, 322-348

· An Introduction to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. in Chowdhury and Bhuniyan (eds.) INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW Brill, Leiden 2010, 51-68

· The Right to Restitution of Land in THE BILL OF RIGHTS COMPENDIUM, Butterworths, Durban 2009.

· Afterword in 60 YEARS, 30 PERSPECTIVES: IRELAND AND THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, Amnesty International, New Island, Dublin 2009, 203-8.

· Concluding Remarks on Europe in 60 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION IN EUROPE. Chapter co-written with Markku Suksi, Intersentia, 2009.

· Ireland: From Domestic Pre-Occupations to Wider Reception in 60 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EUROPE. Chapter co-written with Attracta Ingram, Intersentia, 2009.

· Introduction to 60 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EUROPE. Chapter co-written with Markku Suksi, Intersentia ,2009.

Peer Reviewed Articles

Overview of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from an International Perspective, 117-124, 2010 The Protection Project Journal of Human Rights and Civil Society, Johns Hopkins University.

Sixty Years of the UDHR in Europe: Diversity within the Unity, co-authored with Markku Suksi. European Yearbook on Human Rights 21-35, 2009.

The Right to Water, Privatised Water and Access to Justice: Tackling United Kingdom Water Companies’ Practices in Developing Countries, 543-562 2007 South African Journal on Human Rights Volume 23. Co-authored with Damon Barrett

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

17 October 2010- Finding Common Ground, 2 ^nd Irish-American Human Rights Exchange, Galway

12 June 2010- AN INTODUCTION TO ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, Presented at the School for International Relations Conference on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Tehran

12 June 2010-LAND AND HOUSING RIGHTS: SOME SOLUTIONS FROM OTHER JURISDICTIONS, Presented at the School for International Relations Conference on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Tehran

20 November 2009-SOME INTIAL FINDINGS ON LAND RIGHTS IN BRAZIL, INDIA AND SOUTH AFRICA- Presented at Lawyers for Human Rights Role and Impact of Public Interest Litigation in South Africa, Johannesburg

9 October 2009- SIXTY YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EUROPE WITH RELEVANCE FOR THE USA-Presented the Inaugural Irish-American Exchange, Centre for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, Indiana, U.S.A

5 August 2009-OVERVIEW OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE-Presented at the Experts Meeting in honour of Islamic Human Rights and Human Dignity Day, organized by John Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, Beirut, Lebanon.

14 April 2009- KEYNOTE ADDRESS: LESSONS FOR AFRICA AFTER 60 YEARS OF THE UDHR IN EUROPE at the Seminario Internacional/ Curso Sobre Direito da Proteccao Social no Contexto de HIV/SIDA at the Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Eduardo Mondalane, Maputo, Mozambique

25 March 2009- 60 YEARS OF THE UDHR IN EUROPE: SOME QUESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Seminars & Other Presentations

· 25-26 June 2010- International Human Rights Institutions and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, EU-China Human Rights Workshop, Madrid

· 15 October 2009- The Potential for Public Interest Litigation in Ethiopia-- Presented at the Rule of Law Seminar for the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, Addis Ababa

· 14 October 2009-The International Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights- Presented at the Rule of Law Seminar for the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, Addis Ababa

· 3 June 2009-Human Rights-Based Approaches in Times of Economic Downturn, Amnesty Ireland CEO Roundtable Seminar on Human Rights, Gresham Hotel, Dublin

· 2-13 May 2009- EU-China Seminars on Human Rights organised by the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Prague. Chair of four sessions.

· 27 March 2009- Staff Seminar on 60 Years of the UDHR in Europe: Some Questions for the Developing World, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Trainings

· 26 May 2008- Amnesty International Human Rights Based Education Training, Dublin.

· 21 May 2008- Training of the Gardai on State and Institutional Racism in Ireland, Nenagh.

· 26 February 2008- Training of the Gardai on State and Institutional Racism in Ireland, Nenagh.

· 11 February 2008- Training of the Gardai on State and Institutional Racism in Ireland, Templemore.

Dr. Jaichand's full CV is available here