Who are experts in the field of sexual health and human rights?

Maxim Anmeghichean

Having graduated from Moldovan State University in the field of journalism and communication sciences, as well as master programme on Cultures and Development at Leuven University (Belgium), Max Anmeghichean has linked all of his professional life with the LGBT movement. He has eight years of experience within the Moldovan LGBT movement, starting the organization Information Centre "GenderDoc-M" essentially from scratch and, with a team, developing it into a strong and respected organization at national and regional levels. At the national level, Maxim was also a member of the NGO Council, founding member of the National AIDS Network, and board member of the National Youth Council of Moldova (NYCM), having in his mandate capacity building and organisational development. Within the NYCM Maxim has coordinated a TACIS-funded project on promotion of social inclusion using psychosocial animation tools (social video, theatre forum, etc.). For the past five years he has been actively involved with the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) of Europe as a board member, taking part in the development of IE's Eastern European work, lobbying before the Council of Europe and the European Union, and fundraising. His post, as Programmes Director with ILGA-Europe, combines advocacy work before three major European institutions (OSCE, Council of Europe and the EU), development of the Eastern European LGBT movements and capacity building. Maxim is also advisory board member of the Sexual Health and Rights Project (SHARP) of OSI since 2005.

Alice M. Miller, J.D.

Alice M. Miller is currently a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and a Senior Fellow at Boalt’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice. Previously she was an Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health & International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, teaching in the Columbia’s Schools of Law, Public Health and International and Public Affairs. Her past work includes co-Directing the Center for the Study of Human Rights and the Human Rights Concentration at Columbia University, School of Public and International Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University from 1989. Miller worked as an Adviser to the Sexual Health and Rights Project (SHARP) of the Open Society Institute in 2006-2007. In 1998-1999, she was a Rockefeller Fellow in the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at the School of Public Health. Miller has over 20 years of policy and advocacy experience with non-governmental organizations, including directing the women’s rights program at the Human Rights Law Group (now Global Rights) [at the Law Group, 1993-98]; Amnesty International USA’s Program against the Death Penalty [1991-1993], and co-founding AIUSA’s programs on women and LGBT rights programs. She continues to work with local and international NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and local and national NGOS such as the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development (USA), and CREA and TARSHI (India) the on human rights issues in the US and globally. Her scholarship and policy work has addressed gendering humanitarian law, rights-based anti-trafficking policies, abolition of the death penalty, women’s rights, sexual rights, sexual and reproductive health and LGBT rights. She publishes regularly in both scholarly and activist venues on these topics. Ms Miller completed her BA at Radcliffe College/Harvard University in 1979 and her JD at the University of Washington in 1985.