Members of the European Committee of Social Rights

Aoife NOLAN (Irish)

President

Professor of International Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, School of Law, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Term of Office : 31/12/2028

Eliane CHEMLA (French)

Vice-President

State councillor
State Council, Paris, France
Term of Office : 31/12/2024

Tatiana PUIU (Moldovan)

Vice-President

Attorney at Law, Specialist in Human Rights
Term of Office: 31/12/2024

Kristine DUPATE (Latvian)

General rapporteur

Associate Professor, International and European law, Faculty of Law, University of Latvia
Term of Office : 31/12/2028

József HAJDÚ (Hungarian)

Professor of Labour law and Social Security,
Faculty of law, University of Szeged, Hungary
Term of Office: 31/12/2024

Karin Møhl LARSEN (Danish)

Adviser on International Social Security issues and European Union Law (retired)
Term of Office: 31/12/2026

Yusuf BALCI (Turkish)

Professor of Labour Economics and Social Policy,
Faculty of Business, Istanbul Commerce University
Term of Office: 31/12/2024

Paul RIETJENS (Belgian)

Former Director general of Legal Affairs of the Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Brussels, Belgium (retired)
Member of the Complaints Board of the European Schools,
Brussels, Belgium (since 2007)
Term of Office: 31/12/2026

George THEODOSIS (Greek)

Assistant Professor of Labour Law and Director of the Laboratory of Comparative and European Social Law,
Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece
Term of Office : 31/12/2026

Mario VINKOVIĆ (Croatian)

Professor of Labour law and Social security, Holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Labour, Equality and Human Rights Law (2013-2016),
Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, Croatia
Term of Office : 31/12/2026

Miriam KULLMANN (German)

Professor of Labour Law and Social Security Law, Utrecht University School of Law, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Term of Office : 31/12/2026

Carmen SALCEDO BELTRÁN
(Spanish)

Professor of Labour law and social security University of Valencia (Spain);
Director of the International Research Group about “Human Rights and European Social Charter
Term of Office : 31/12/2028

Franz MARHOLD (Austrian)

Professor, Dr., Emeritus Lawyer;
Institute for Austrian and European Labour Law and Social Security Law
Term of Office : 31/12/2028

Alla FEDOROVA (Ukrainian)

Associate Professor, Institute of international relation Taras Shevchenko, National University of Kyiv.
Term of office : 31/12/2024

Grega STRBAN (Slovenian)

Professor, Head of Department of labour law and social security law, Faculty of Law of Ljubljana
Term of office : 31/12/2028

Composition of the European Committee of Social Rights (Committee of independent experts) since 1966

The European Social Charter
a guardian of our social rights

events

Back Reinforcing social rights protection in Europe: to achieve greater unity and equality

Expert seminar

The Department of the European Social Charter organised, under the auspices of the French Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, an expert seminar to discuss the protection of social rights in Europe so as to achieve greater unity and equality. The seminar also followed up on the Committee of Ministers declaration at its Helsinki session in May 2019. At that session, the Committee of Ministers invited all the member States concerned to consider signing and ratifying the revised European Social Charter and its Additional Protocol providing for a system of collective complaints, as a starting point for a resolutely proactive and collective drive to combat inequalities and achieve greater social justice.

The European Social Charter and the European Committee of Social rights guarantee key principles such as free movement of persons, non-discrimination, legal and social security, protection against poverty and exclusion, access to decent housing, health, education and training, as well as employment, safety at work and equality at the workplace, including equal pay.

Participants were welcomed by Ambassador Jean-Baptiste Mattéi, Ambassador of France to the Council of Europe, and Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe. An introduction on strengthening social rights to ensure social justice, national cohesion and the rule of law was pronounced by José Fernandez-Albertos, Researcher at Institute for Policies and Public Goods, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

The seminar was organised in liaison with the “Institut de recherche Carré de Malberg”, University of Strasbourg.