Anja Roth is a graduate of the Irish Center for Human Rights in Galway and joined the Basel Institute on Governance in September 2009. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law and a BA in European Studies from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.

After she graduated from school in Germany in 2002, she worked and lived in Iceland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Ireland and Poland. As a long-standing member of Amnesty International, she worked in AI’s campaigns team in Wellington in 2006/ 07.

As a Master’s thesis, Anja chose the topic of child rights with a thematic focus on the right to education and a regional focus on Tibet. In order for her to become acquainted with the topic in more detail, she joined the NGO International Campaign for Tibet e. V. in April 2008 to complete a four- months internship with the organization and to write her thesis in the same time.

After having completed her Masters in 2008, she went on a scholarship- funded internship to Poland, to work with the Organization for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) in Warsaw. She was an active part of the Human Rights Defenders Team and supported a colleague working on an online tool on freedom of association legislation and practice.

Anja’s interests lie with human rights and questions of international legislation on that subject matter. She is now working as Researcer and Opperational Support Officer with the Center on Asset Recovery and is aiming at writing a PhD at some point about questions of international and national legislation around  non- discrimination of minorities.