Elīna Šteinerte

About/Bio

Elīna Šteinerte is a member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) and former member and Chair Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD). She is also Jersey Law Commissioner, visiting professor at the Jersey Law Institute and visiting fellow at the University of Bristol.

Recently Published

The Moscow Mechanism Expert Report on the Forcible Transfer and Deportation of Ukrainian Children

Before Spring 2022, only the real connoisseurs of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were familiar with the so-called Moscow Mechanism enabling any OSCE participating State to request the establishment of an ad hoc expert mission to investigate specific questions related to the OSCE human dimension. In the first thirty years of…

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