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Steven L. B. Jensen is Senior Researcher at The Danish Institute for Human Rights. He holds a PhD in History. Before joining The Danish Institute for Human Rights, he held positions with UNAIDS based in Geneva and The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has worked with global health and human rights over two decades and also on international human rights diplomacy. <\/span>\r\n\r\nHis publications include the multiple prize-winning book The Making of International Human Rights. The 1960s, Decolonization and the Reconstruction of Global Values (CUP 2016) and the co-edited anthology Histories of Global Inequality: New Perspectives (Palgrave 2019). His forthcoming book Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History (co-edited with Charles Walton) will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. 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Dima Jirjis is a Humanity in Action Denmark Board member, she holds a MSc in Development and International Relations with an emphasis on Global Refugee Studies. Dima <\/span>was born in Iraq and came to Denmark at the age four with her family as refugees. Growing up among different cultures, Dima is deeply interested in understanding and interacting with people from various parts of the world. During her BA studies in Intercultural Education and Arabic, her interest in working with children and young people grew. Through volunteer work, Dima has participated in and organized camps for refugee children living in asylum centers in Zealand, Denmark. In her spare time, she teaches Arabic to children and adults. 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Jonas Bredal Juul holds a dual-degree master\u2019s in political science from University of Copenhagen and conflict resolution & mediation from Tel Aviv University.\u00a0<\/span>His work experience includes being political officer at the Danish Embassy in Belgrade, intern at the Danish Embassy in Kyiv, and a student assistant at different departments of the Danish MFA and Prime Minister\u2019s Office. Furthermore, he has organized and moderated numerous local and international events on a broad variety of topics<\/span>. 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Morten Kj\u00e6rum is the Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and adjunct Professor at Aalborg University.\u00a0Appointed by the UN Secretary General he serves at\u00a0the\u00a0UN\u00a0Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights and of the Universal Periodic Review Trust Fund for Financial and Technical Assistance.\u00a0He is member of the Board of Trustees of the Swedish youth organization \u2018Fryshuset\u2019 and board member of the U-based Center for Democracy and Technology, CDT.<\/p>\r\n

Morten was the first Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and was founding director of the Danish Institute for Human Rights. He\u00a0started his career in\u00a0the Danish Refugee Council. Morten has been a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as well as Chair of the Network of Directors of EU Agencies and Chair of the International Coordinating Committee for National Human Rights Institutions.\u00a0For six years he served as Chairperson of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles.<\/p>\r\n

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Morten was the first Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and was founding director of the Danish Institute for Human Rights. He\u00a0started his career in\u00a0the Danish Refugee Council. Morten has been a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as well as Chair of the Network of Directors of EU Agencies and Chair of the International Coordinating Committee for National Human Rights Institutions.\u00a0For six years he served as Chairperson of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles.<\/p>\r\n

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