International Distinction for a team of students from the Law Department of the UCY
June 27, 2022Program of employment to the Commission for the Protection of Competition (C.P.C)
August 2, 2022International distinction for the postdoctoral researcher of the Law Department of the University of Cyprus Tina Stavrinaki
She was elected Vice-Chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Dr Tina Stavrinaki, post-doctoral researcher “Onisilos” at the Law Department of the University of Cyprus, was elected Vice-Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). Dr Tina Stavrinaki serves on the Committee as an independent expert from January 2020 to January 2024, with the right to be re-elected. During the recent session of the Committee, the experts from the Western Europe and other countries regional group selected Dr. Tina Stavrinaki for the position of Vice-Chair for the next two years. The Committee follows a rotation system and is currently chaired by the Latin American and Caribbean group. In addition, Dr Tina Stavrinaki has been commissioned to draft the General Recommendation for Combating Racial Discrimination in the Right to Health. The Committee‘s General Recommendations provide guidance to the currently 182 States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Dr Stavrinaki holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Paris 2 Panthéon Assas and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Law Department of the University of Cyprus on the subject of hate speech and hate crimes (HateLawPractice) under the supervision of Associate Professor of International Law and Human Rights Aristoteles Constantinides. Dr Stavrinaki’s research led, among other things, to the drafting of guidelines on the establishment of an Observatory for hate crimes in Cyprus, which were given for consultation to civil society organizations. Dr Stavrinaki will continue her academic career at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, where she was hired as an Assistant Professor of International Human Rights Law as of September 2022.
