Christine is working in several areas, such as monitoring the development of the EU human rights agenda and institutions, the human rights clauses in EU's association, trade and development agreements with third countries and the EU enlargement. Other tasks include initiating proposals for appropriate responses by ILGA-Europe, producing reports, policy and research papers on discrimination and human rights (including for the EU presidencies) and projects such as need assessment of transgender people or report on free movement of LGBT families in the EU. Christine is French and started working for ILGA-Europe on 15 February 2004.

Background:

Originally from Strasbourg, Christine joined us from Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she has been employed as an investigations worker with the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, dealing with the rights of several minority groups and developing policy papers. Prior to that, Christine worked for NICEM as a research and development officer, monitoring the implementation of race equality measures in public authorities, and as a tutor in the law department of Queen's University of Belfast. Her educational qualifications include a Ph.D. in Law (thesis on increasing women's political representation) and a Ll.M. in Human Rights (dissertation on transsexuals' rights), and she has several publications on LGBT issues to her name.