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Dr. Omar Grech

Coordinator, Human Dimension Programme and
Lecturer in International Law

 

Educated at De La Salle College, GF Abela Upper Lyceum and the University of Malta.

Between 1999 and 2000 worked as an associate with John Mamo & Associates, one of Malta’s leading law firms.  Admitted to the Maltese Bar in March 2000. Since September 2001 Coordinator of the Human Dimension Programme at MEDAC and lecturer in International Law at the same institution.

Other responsibilities at MEDAC include the organisation of annual Human Rights Summer Schools as well human rights seminars and conferences. Latest events organised include Seminar on Malta and Development Policy, January 2005 (For which a workshop report has been published), the Summer School on Human Rights and Development: Education Perspectives, July 2005 and a Seminar on Women’s Rights in the Mediterranean: Current Issues in February 2006.

Wrote dissertations on The Law of Investor Protection (Faculty of Law – 1999) and Obligations Erga Omnes – Trends and Perspectives (MEDAC 2001).

Member of the Euro-Med Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and actively involved in the EMHRN Human Rights Education Working Group.

 

Produced and presented 2 series of radio programmes dealing with human rights on the Voice of Mediterranean Radio Station. Also contributor to various Voices of the Mediterranean Current Affairs Programmes.  Dr. Grech also wrote a booklet published by MEDAC together with 80:20 that is entitled A Human Rights Perspective on Development.   

                                                           

Major areas of interest are International Criminal Law, Human Rights Education and Women’s Rights.

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