Dr Nazila (Naz) Ghanea
Lecturer in International Human Rights Law, Department for Continuing Education
Dr Nazila Ghanea is University Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College (BA Keele, MA Leeds, PhD Keele, MA Oxon). She was the founding editor of the international journal of Religion and Human Rights and now serves on its Editorial Board as well as the Advisory Board of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. She has been a visiting academic at a number of institutions including Columbia and NYU, and previously taught at the University of London and Keele University, UK and in China. Nazila’s research spans freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, women’s rights, minority rights and human rights in the Middle East. Her publications include nine books, three UN publications as well as a number of journal articles and reports. Her research has been funded by the Open Society Institute, the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board, the UK Economic and Social Research Council and a number of universities. She is currently part of a research term investigating ‘Religion and Belief, Discrimination and Equality in England and Wales: Theory, Policy and Practice’ (2010-2013). She has also received a number of university scholarships and academic awards. Nazila has acted as a human rights consultant/expert for a number of governments, the UN, UNESCO, OSCE, Council of Europe and the EU. She has facilitated international human rights law training for a range of professional bodies around the world, lectured widely and carried out first hand human rights field research in a number of countries including Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. She is a regular contributor to the media on human rights matters. This coverage has included BBC World Service, BBC Woman’s Hour, The Times, Radio Free Europe, The Guardian, Avvenire, The Telegraph, The National (UAE), New Statesman, Sveriges Radio, TA3 Slovakia and El Pais.
A short selection of her publications include:
'Are Religious Minorities Really Minorities?', (2012) 1, 1, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 57-79
Religious
Minorities and human rights: Bridging international and domestic perspectives on
the rights of persons belonging to religious minorities under English law (2012) European Yearbook of Minority Issues (forthcoming)
Minorities and Hatred: Protections and Implications (2010) 17, 3 International Journal of Minority and Group Rights 423
Phantom Minorities and Religions Denied: Muslims, Bahá’ís and International Human Rights (2009) Vol 2 Shia Affairs Journal [...]
Religious or Minority? Examining the Realization of International Standards in Relation to Religious Minorities in the Middle East (2008) 3, (3) Religion, State and Society 303
'From UN Commission on Human Rights to UN Human Rights Council: One step forwards or two steps sideways' (2006) 55(3) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 695-705, ISBN: 1471-6895
'Convergences and disparities between the human rights of religious minorities and of women in the Middle East' (2004) 26(3) Human Rights Quarterly 705-729, ISBN: 1085-794X
'Ethnic and Religious Groups in the Islamic Republic of Iran' (2003) 28 tabled at the United Nations Working Group on Minorities,
May 2003
Human Rights, the UN and the Bahá'ís in Iran (Kluwer Law International 2003), pp. 628UN Expert Paper on Articles 19 and 20 of the ICCPR
relating to freedom of expression and prohibition of advocacy of hatred
“Religious or Minority?”, Religion, State and Society, 36.3, September 2008
“Does God Believe in Human Rights?”, (co-edited with Alan Stephens and Raphael Walden), Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007, ISBN 90-04-15254-7
“Minorities, Peoples and Self-Determination” (co-edited with Alexandra Xanthaki), Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2005, ISBN 90-04-14301-7
“The Challenge of Religious Discrimination at the Dawn of the New Millennium”, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2003, ISBN 90-04-13641-X
“Phobias and ‘Isms’: Recognition of Difference or the Slippery Slope of Particularisms?” in Does God Believe in Human Rights?, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007
“Middle East” section of the State of the World’s Minorities 2006, London: Minority Rights Group International, December 2005, ISBN 1 904584 32 2, pp.167-181
“Repressing Minorities and getting away with it? A consideration of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, Minorities, Peoples and Self-Determination, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2005
“Apostasy and Freedom to Change Religion or Belief”, in Facilitating Freedom of Religion and Belief: Perspectives, Impulses and Recommendations from the Oslo Coalition, Cole Durham, Tore Lindholm and Bahia Tahzib-Lie (Eds.), Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2004, ISBN 90-04-13783-1. Nazila also co-authored the Introduction to this 38 page collection with the Editors
