Aberystwyth Law professor re-elected to European human rights body
Professor Ryszard Piotrowicz of Aberystwyth Law School has been re-elected to GRETA, the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. Professor Piotrowicz was elected as the British candidate to the 15-member body. Forty-five countries took part in the election in Strasbourg. GRETA is one of the major human rights bodies of the Council of Europe. It monitors how countries meet their obligations to protect the rights of trafficked people as well as their efforts to prosecute people traffickers. Professor Piotrowicz will serve a second four-year term, which will include visiting countries throughout Europe to assess their performance in anti-trafficking functions. In this function his work can have a real and positive impact by contributing to law and policy reform on human trafficking and, most importantly, helping victims of modern day slavery, which has been a major priority of the British government in recent years. Individuals nominated to ...