1461 days. That is the number of days that Evelien will be working on her Ph.D. research. At the same time, she is a member of the city council of Amsterdam. Welcome to this website!
Evelien is born on 28. October 1984 in Bussum, the Netherlands. She lives in Amsterdam since 2003. In 2008, she moved to Nairobi (Kenya) for six months in order to work for the refugee agency of the United Nations, after which she lived and studied in New York (2008/2009). As of June 2009, she is back in the Netherlands where she started her Ph.D. research at the University of Amsterdam. She is conducting research in the area of International Refugee Law and International Criminal Law. Besides this work, Evelien is also a member of the city council in Amsterdam for the Greens.
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research
Evelien is a Ph.D. researcher since January 2010. She is being supervised by Professor M.Y.A. Zieck, who is specialized in International Refugee Law at the University of Amsterdam (Faculty of Law). Professor Zieck is also Director of the Amsterdam Graduate Law School and Amsterdam Law College. She is Professor of International Public Law at the Pakistan College of Law, Lahore (Pakistan) and Professor of International Refugee Law at Brooklyn University (New York) as well. Evelien works for the Amsterdam Centre for International Law. Her research focuses on Article 1F of the International Refugee Convention, 1951. This article states that an asylum seeker who is believed to have committed grave crimes should be excluded from the protection under the Convention; this exclusion clause is meant to fence of abuse of the international asylum system and to end impunity of serious criminals.
graduation at Columbia University
the history of evelien & refugee law
Evelien graduated with a masters degree in International Public Law from the University of Amsterdam, School of Law. During her internship in Nairobi (Kenya) at UNHCR, the refugee agency of the United Nations, Evelien was captured by refugees and the law that is supposed to protect them. The various problems that refugees come accross during their flight gained her attention, even when she left Nairobi to study for another masters degree at the Columbia University School of Law in New York. She enrolled in classes such as ‘Human Rights Law’, ‘Refugee Law and Policy’, ‘The Law of Genocide’, ‘International Criminal Law’ and ‘Criminal Procedings’. Evelien was particularly interested in the interface between international refugee law and international criminal law. She often thought about the Ethiopian asylum seeker she met at the Nairobi office of UNHCR who was suspected of committing war crimes in Somalia and was therefore possibly excluded from refugee status. She wrote a paper about this problem for the course ‘Refugee Law & Policy’ taught by Professor Carolien Blum. After a few conversations about this issue, Professor Zieck asked Evelien whether she wanted to do a Ph.D. research on this topic. As of 1. January 2010, Evelien is appointed at the Faculty of Law on the topic ‘Sixty years of exclusion: a problematic marriage between international refugee law and international criminal law’.
politics
Evelien is a member of the city council of Amsterdam for the Greens as of June 2009. She is a member of the Committee on Art, Culture and Sports, and of the Committee on Economy and Business.
in the City Council
Evelien has achieved the following, among others:
- 300,000 euro for scholarships for young artists to unfold their talents;
- more openness on the wages of managers who receive an allowance from the government;
- 200,000 euro for music education for all children in Amsterdam;
- more attention, a new plan of action and a higher ambition on housing for young adults;
- an evaluation of the system of distributing allowances to art institutions (90 million euro each year);
- more attention for the waiting lists of sports clubs;
- more and better criteria for corporate social responsibility;
- 1,000,000 euro to stimulate and improve amateur sport, sport clubs and facilities for sports in Amsterdam.
