From the 11th until the 14th of September 2018, I was in London for a business trip. The main reason for my visit was the launch of a report on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) and the law. A couple of weeks ago I received the invitation below from Thomson Reuters Foundation, 28TooMany and Latham & Watkins.

From April until July 2018, I taught the course Public International Law (in English) at PPLE College at the University of Amsterdam, together with dr. Marta Bo and prof. dr. Yvonne Donders. It was the second time I taught this course at PPLE.

From March until August 2018, I supervised 12 students with their Bachelor Thesis at the University of Amsterdam. I directed the thesis project together with Dr. Marco Fabbri (research fellow at the University of Amsterdam) and we combined our two disciplines: Law & Economics.

The theme of 22nd International AIDS Conference was “Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges” drawing attention to the need of rights-based approaches to more effectively reach key populations, including in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the North-African/Middle Eastern regions where epidemics are growing. I delivered a key-note speech during a side-event of the 22nd International AIDS Conference upon invitation of Simavi.

The last week of June 2018, I was in Geneva for several UN meetings, including a side-event at the 38th session of the Human Rights Council entitled ‘Legal Frameworks to end Female Genital Mutilation: closing the implementation gab’ was organized in Palais des Nations.