New at SIM: Evelien Brouwer (Fellow) and Sneh Aurora (Researcher)

The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University welcomes its new fellow and its new researcher: Evelien Brouwer and Sneh Aurora.

Evelien Brouwer

Evelien Brouwer is assistant professor constitutional and administrative law at the Utrecht University and as senior researcher affiliated to the Montaigne Centre for the Rule of Law and Administration of Justice. Her areas of expertise include EU asylum, migration and data protection law. In her publications she addresses amongst others the use of border technologies from the perspective of human rights, in particular the right to effective remedies, non-discrimination, and privacy. She participated in different (EU and national) research projects dealing with EU asylum and migration policies, the Schengen acquis, and the use of large-scale databases and biometrics.

Sneh Aurora

Sneh Aurora is a human rights advocate with over 20 years of experience focusing on international human rights law, standard setting and policy development, strategy development and programme management, civil society and institutional capacity building. She has worked with a variety of prominent human rights organisations such as Amnesty International, Education International, International Service for Human Rights, as well as with national human rights institutions and inter-governmental organisations including the Council of Europe, UNDP, UNESCO, OHCHR, and OSCE/ODHIR.

Holding a Juris Doctorate in Law from the University of Toronto, she has extensive experience in rights-based approaches and participatory methodologies, social communication, gender mainstreaming, participatory assessments using complex indicator frameworks, online education technologies using interactive and blended learning approaches, and building and sustaining effective networks and coalitions.

She has provided technical advice and support to civil society organisations, governments, national human rights institutions, educational institutions, UN agencies, and contributed to the development of the FRA Framework on Human Rights Cities. She has conducted training programmes on the SDGs and localisation of human rights, and the adaptation of indicator frameworks to assess human rights progress, as well as supported local offices across all regions to develop and implement participatory human rights programmes.