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Email: bhettinga@uwc.ac.za

Berber Hettinga joined CSPRI as a Doctoral Researcher in June 2010. She holds an LLM degree in International and European Law from Utrecht University. She worked as an assistant to Prof. C. Flinterman at the Netherlands Human Rights Institute and in 2004 she was at the Dutch Mission to the United Nations in New York as assistant-attaché. She has worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for 5 years, both for a local human rights NGO and as (Senior) Human Rights Officer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Currently, she is LLD Candidate at the Law Faculty of UWC, and the title of her research is “Prevention of torture in Africa: effective independent oversight of places of deprivation of liberty”.