Katerina Vyzvaldova
Policy analyst
Vienna
Organisation
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
bEU Institutions
Centre of fundamental rights expertise; providing evidence to support evidence-based EU and national policy making
Anna Zielinska
country representative
Warszawa
Biography
Anna Zielinska is a Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Expert. Anna is a Board Member of the Jewish Association Czulent, where she works on issues of hate crime, hate speech, antisemitism and advocacy. She also serves as the Steering Committee Member of the ENCATE Network and Executive Committee member of the International Council of Jewish Women. Anna served as an Adviser on Combating Antisemitism in the OSCE/ODIHR and the Adviser on Combatting Antisemitism to the Jewish Community of Warsaw. She obtained her Law degree at Warsaw University and Cambridge British Law School. In addition, she took a post-graduate Middle Eastern Politics and History course at Tel Aviv University. Anna is also an author of publications on international law and tolerance and non-discrimination topics.
Organisation
International Council of Jewish Women (ICJW)
dInternational Jewish organisation
ICJW represents Jewish women from all walks of life in international forums and is strategically positioned to confront and respond to the concerns of the Jewish community and women in general. ICJW has consultative status at the United Nations as an NGO with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). ICJW representatives attend meetings of the UN General Assembly, ECOSOC, UNICEF and UNESCO. ICJW is represented at the Council of Europe, the European Women's Lobby, the International Council of Women, the World Jewish Congress, and other major international and regional organizations. Believing that women's rights are human rights, ICJW lobbies for an end to discrimination against women in all spheres of life. In its battle against intolerance, ICJW campaigns to combat racism, antisemitism and all forms of religious discrimination.
Alberta Alkalay
Chairwoman
Bourgas
Organisation
Center for Jewish-Bulgarian Cooperation Alef
cEuropean Jewish organisation
CENTER FOR JEWISH-BULGARIAN COOPERATION "ALEF" Center for Jewish and Bulgarian cooperation "Alef" is a Non-governmental organization established in 2014 in Burgas, Bulgaria. Alef is a non-political, voluntary, democratic and autonomous public organization. ALEF'S MISSION is to research and promote the deep cultural, social and historical ties between Bulgarians and Jews throughout the centuries. We promote the unique act of saving 50,000 Bulgarian Jews during the Second World War and give due respect and gratitude to those Bulgarians who contributed to it. We strive to create initiatives that stimulate civic education about the Holocaust and preserve the memory of the victims of the darkest period in human history with the sole goal of never repeating it again. We fight against all forms of fascism, xenophobia, terrorism, racism, anti-Semitism. We develop relations with other ethnic communities in the spirit of generally accepted human values-respect, understanding and tolerance.