Team
Our diverse team, including Ezidi researchers, consists of anthropological, legal, and international politics experts working with a number of partners progressing Ezidi welfare, international criminal law, engaged arts, theatre, media, and archival practices.
Leads
Professor Raminder Kaur
Professor of Anthropology and International Development at the University of Manchester.
Her research interests include migration, race/ethnicity/gender, arts and heritage, religion and politics, human rights, energy, ‘cultures of sustainability’, and community (em)powerment. She has written six authored/co-authored books and six co-edited volumes along with numerous other articles, chapters and scripts. She served as a Commissioner on the Uyghur Tribunal.
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Aldo Zammit-Borda
Professor of Law at City St George's, University of London.
His research interests include international criminal justice, transitional justice, accountability for mass atrocities, victim-survivor participation, and reproductive violence. He served as Head of Research and Investigation for the Uyghur Tribunal and Head of Research for the Yazidi Justice Committee.
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Leyla Ferman
Research Associate at GIGA.
Research Associate at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies. Her research interests include diverse remembrance cultures, minority and women's rights in the Middle East, and peace building. She has provided humanitarian, legal, and social support to Ezidi survivors from Sinjar since 2014. From 2021 to 2024, she directed the documentation and education project on the Ezidi genocide, FERMAN, of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation.
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Research Fellows
Farhad Shamo Roto
Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. A survivor of the 2014 genocide, his research focuses on complicity in the Ezidi genocide and innovative strategies for post-genocide recovery and refugee protection. He previously served as a Fellow at Refugees International, and was named an Obama Foundation European Leader and Marianne Initiative for Human Rights Defenders awardee.
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Sajib Hosen
Research Fellow at City St Georges’, University of London. Also Head of Practice at Giga Legal Solicitors, he works at the intersection of law, migration, and human rights, combining academic research with hands-on legal practice. His expertise is in transitional justice, particularly in relation to war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and the challenges of delayed justice.
Project Manager and Coordinator
Jacqueline Jahnel
Consultant and called to the Bar in England and Wales in 2022. Expert in strategic litigation and advocacy across international human rights mechanisms in politically sensitive cases and transnational repression involving extradition, asylum, and Interpol Red Notice removal. She has worked on legal submissions to United Nations mechanisms concerning enforced disappearances and sexual violence, contributed to a report on state responsibility for genocide with the Yazidi Justice Committee, and supported investigations into forced labour, state repression and allegations of genocide with the Uyghur Tribunal.
