EIN Board elects new chair and vice-chair
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Maciej Nowicki, the Chair of the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and Dr. Ramute Remezaite, the Senior Legal Consultant and Implementation Lead at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, have been elected as the new chair and vice-chair of the European Implementation Network.
They replace Professor Başak Çalı and Professor Philip Leach following their hugely successful eight-year tenure as Chair and Vice-Chair of EIN.
EIN started off with 8 founding members and has grown today to encompass 41 members spanning 25 Council of Europe countries.
Under the leadership of Professors Çalı and Leach, EIN has provided capacity-building support to thousands of human rights lawyers and civil society organisations in Europe to effectively engage with human rights judgment implementation advocacy. In this period, the EIN also enabled non-implementation, deficient implementation and slow implementation of human rights judgments to be firmly placed on the agenda of Council of Europe, the European Union, national governments and national human rights institutions.
‘We are extremely proud of what we have achieved building Europe’s leading civil society network advocating for the full and effective implementations of human rights judgments as co-founders of EIN’ said Çalı and Leach.
‘I am looking forward to leading this important network on behalf of the Polish Helsinki Foundation, one of the co-founding members. EIN’s role on keeping the implementation of human rights judgments on the European and Polish agenda has been a major support for the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights’ remarked Maciej Nowicki.
Dr. Ramute Remezaite, whose role in the founding of the EIN was instrumental back in 2016 said ‘The implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights have been central to my work as a human rights lawyer and academic in the past decade. It is an absolute honor for me to lead this organization in its next phase together with Maciej Nowicki.’
The efforts of the EIN Bureau will also be supported by Georgiana Georghe, Executive Director at Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Romania (APADOR-CH), who has been elected as Secretary.