Team

Baroness (Caroline) Cox, is the founder and president of Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) who became a Life Peer in 1982 for her contributions to education and has served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005. Lady Cox now sits in the Lords as a crossbencher and is a frequent contributor to Lords debates on Sudan, India, Nigeria, Uganda, Nagorno Karabakh, and Burma. Her humanitarian aid work has taken her on many missions to conflict zones, allowing her to obtain first-hand evidence of the human rights violations and humanitarian needs in Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh; Sudan; Nigeria; Uganda; the Karen; Karenni; Shan and Chin peoples in the jungles of Burma; and communities suffering from conflict in Indonesia–and has visited North Korea to promote Parliamentary initiatives and medical programs and was instrumental in changing the former Soviet Union policies for orphaned and abandoned children from institutional to foster family care.

Lela Gilbert is an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute who also works with the Center for Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, where she co-edits the Hudson publication Current Trends in Islamist Ideology. She is an award-winning writer who has authored or co-authored more than 60 books. A Christian who resided in Israel for 10 years, her critically acclaimed book Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner (Encounter Books, 2012) was listed as one of the 20 best non-fiction Jewish books of 2012 by J.G. Myers in Jewish Ideas Daily. Her widely published op-eds and articles focus on discrimination and abuse against Christians, Jews and other minority groups; the intensifying global persecution of Christians, Jews and other minorities in the Middle East, Asia and Africa; and ongoing European and Islamist efforts to de-Judaize and delegitimize Israel. Her published articles have appeared in Jerusalem Post, Fox News, Religious Unplugged, World Israel News, Providence Magazine and a weekly Faith and Freedom column for Newsmax, National Review Online, The Huffington Post, Catholic Herald, Jewish Policy Review among others.

Dr. Marjorie Agosin is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Spanish at Wellsely College, and a poet, human rights activist, literary critic interested in Jewish literature and literature of human rights in the Americas; women writers of Latin America; migration, identity, and ethnicity. Her creative work is inspired by the theme of social justice and the pursuit of remembrance and the memorialization of traumatic historical events both in the Americas and in Europe. Her Chilean arpilleras is a pioneering work, she has also published essays, autobiographical memoirs and young adult novels, focused on the Holocaust, the history of Bosnian women during the siege of Sarajevo, and the role of women in Latin America during authoritarian regimes in the seventies and eighties–with a unified theme of the pursuit of social justice and human rights.Among her many awards are the Jeanette Rankin Award in Human Rights, the United Nations Leadership Award for Human Rights, and the Chilean government Gabriela Mistral Medal for Lifetime Achievement.

Dr Nazand Begikhani is a contemporary Kurdish writer, poet, a leading academic researcher into gender based violence, and an active advocate of human rights. As an honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, Centre for Gender and Violence Research, she has been awarded the Vincent Wright Chair and works as a visiting professor at Sciences Po School for International Affairs, Paris.
She has conducted research on many aspects of violence and gender relations, including honour-based violence (HBV), rape and sexual violence in Iraq and Syria, domestic violence, and family policy and practice in Kurdistan.

Among many others, she was awarded the UK Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize for her work on HBV (2000), Kurdistan Region’s Sayd Ibrahim’s Memorial Prize for her creativity (2009) and the French Simone Landrey’s Feminine Poetry Prize for her poetry work (2012). Her poetry was also nominated for the Forward Book of Poetry Prize; one of her poems, An Ordinary Day was elected by Forward Poetry Prizes as one of the best 40 poems of the year in the UK (2007).

Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist and political analyst formerly based in Ankara. As an exiled writer, she has worked and lived in various parts of the world. Her writings have appeared in various outlets such as the Washington Times, Christian Post, Jewish News Syndicate, Al-Ahram Weekly, American Spectator, the Providence, and Jerusalem Post. She has been interviewed by such publications as Forbes, Fox News Digital and the International Christian Concern. She has participated in international conferences including the 2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the 2019 Oslo Freedom Forum of the Human Rights Foundation, where she raised issues regarding violations of human rights in Turkey and the wider region.

Uzay Bulut’s journalistic work focuses mainly on human rights, Turkish politics and history, religious minorities in the Middle East and anti-Semitism. She is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.

Anaïde focuses on developing responsive, field-based research and training tools to professionals in humanitarian contexts, on issues such as humanitarian policy, negotiation, and the experiences of national and local staff in frontline environments. She has worked at Harvard University for over fifteen years, leading field research and project implementation on and across humanitarian and development contexts. Anaïde currently leads programming for the Executive Negotiation Project (ENP) at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and continues to provide research and training support to humanitarian agencies. From 2017 to 2019, she was Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Collaborative Platform, where she initiated and managed relationships between the ICRC and academic, policy, non-profit, and private organizations in the Boston area around key themes and priorities of the ICRC, in partnership with swissnex Boston. Anaïde holds an MSc in Sociology with a focus on Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is currently a MPhil/PhD candidate in Sociology at LSE.