Charlotte Flindt Pedersen (born 19 January 1965 in
Aarhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...
,
Denmark) is the Executive Director of
the Danish Foreign Policy Society
The Danish Foreign Policy Society ''(in Danish: Det Udenrigspolitiske Selskab)'' is a private, non-profit organisation founded in 1946 with the aim of promoting interest and raising awareness on foreign policy and international affairs in Denmark. ...
.
Charlotte Flindt Pedersen holds a M.A. degree in East-European studies from the
University of Copenhagen (1994). During her years as a student she lived and traveled extensively in the
Soviet Union experiencing
Glasnost
''Glasnost'' (; russian: link=no, гласность, ) has several general and specific meanings – a policy of maximum openness in the activities of state institutions and freedom of information, the inadmissibility of hushing up problems, ...
and
Perestroika
''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...
first hand. In 1990, she published the following books: “Experiment – pictures from the Soviet Union” (original title in Danish “Eksperimentet – billeder fra Sovjetunionen”) in cooperation with photographer Stig Stasig, and “Young in Moscow” (original title in Danish “Ung i Moskva”) jointly with journalist Lisbeth Jessen.
In 1996, Pederson began her career at the
Danish Institute for Human Rights working with
human rights, police and justice sector reform in cooperation with
civil society organisations and government agencies mainly in the
Balkans and
former Soviet Countries. From 2009-2015, she was Deputy Director and Head of the International Division at the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
Since May 2015, she functions as the Executive Director of the Danish Foreign Policy Society.
She is an associate partner at Nordic Consulting Group and board member at the
Ebbe Munck
Ebbe Munck (14 January 1905 – 2 May 1974) was a resistance fighter during World War II (1939–1945). He operated out of Stockholm, Sweden, a neutral country, for the Danish resistance movement.
Personal life and education
Hans Ebbe Munck was ...
Memorial Foundation,
International Media Support
International Media Support (IMS) is an international NGO located in Copenhagen, Denmark, working to support local media in countries affected by armed conflict, human insecurity and political transition. It works in 41 countries to improve profes ...
, the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute, and
Folmer Wisti Foundation.
Articles and publications
* ”Menneskerettigheder i Centralasien”, Den Nye Verden,
Danish Institute for International Studies, Volume 4, 2006, pp. 123–137
* “Fælles indsats for at sætte stopper for handel med børn og kvinder”
Folkevirke Volume 4, 2005, pp. 5–7
* Chapter 3: "Support for the Implementation of Humane Responses to Children in Conflict with the Law in DIHR Partner Countries" in ''"Juvenile Law Violators, Human Rights, and the Development of New
Juvenile justice systems"'', ed.: Jørgen Jepsen and Eric Jensen, Hart Publishers, 2006,
* “Assessment 2000, Juvenile Justice in Uzbekistan” by Charlotte Flindt Pedersen and Jørgen Vammen Jepsen, Evaluations and Reviews of Partnership Programmes – No 20, The Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen 2001
* “Assessment 2000, Juvenile Justice in Kazakhstan”,
Evaluations and Reviews of Partnership Programmes - No 19, The Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen 2001
* “Young in Moscow” (in Danish “Ung i Moskva”) by Charlotte Flindt Pedersen and Lisbeth Jessen, Amanda 1990l. It is a Russian language instruction booklet for beginners with facts about the life of Soviet-Russian youth.
* “Experiment – pictures from the Soviet Union” (in Danish “Eksperimentet – billeder fra Sovjetunionen”) by Charlotte Flindt Pedersen and Stig Stasig, Amanda, 1990. The book consists of interviews and pictures with people from different regions of the
USSR.
References
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Living people
1965 births
Danish human rights activists
Danish academics
University of Copenhagen alumni
People from Aarhus