Dick Oosting (born June 1946) is a Dutch human rights lawyer and activist. He headed
Amnesty International's EU Office and was the CEO of the
European Council on Foreign Relations
The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is a pan-European think tank with offices in seven European capitals. Launched in October 2007, it conducts research on European foreign and security policy and provides a meeting space for decis ...
(ECFR). Oosting was Chair of the Board of the
Martin Ennals
Martin Ennals (27 July 19275 October 1991) was a British human rights activist.
Ennals served as the secretary-general of Amnesty International from 1968 to 1980. He went on to help found the British human rights organisation ARTICLE 19 in 19 ...
Foundation.
Work at Amnesty
In the mid-1970s he coordinated
Amnesty International’s first worldwide campaign against torture (an activity highlighted in Amnesty's
Nobel Peace Prize
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citation in 1977). He then served five years as Amnesty's Deputy Secretary General and returned to the Netherlands to head its Dutch national section. From 1999 he spent eight years in
Brussels
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leading Amnesty's EU office.
The International Center for Transitional Justice
Oosting managed the Europe programme of the International Center for Transitional Justice, managing programmes in the former Yugoslavia, Cyprus and Afghanistan. Oosting has been on high level human rights missions to Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
The European Council on Foreign Relations
He joined the
European Council on Foreign Relations
The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is a pan-European think tank with offices in seven European capitals. Launched in October 2007, it conducts research on European foreign and security policy and provides a meeting space for decis ...
in 2010 and has been its
CEO
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until 2016. He is a now a member of the Council of ECFR.
See also
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List of civil rights leaders
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References
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1946 births
Living people
Amnesty International people
20th-century Dutch lawyers
Dutch human rights activists
Human rights lawyers
University of Groningen alumni
21st-century Dutch lawyers