Jan Fermon Email & Phone Number

Brussels Area, Belgium

• Lawyer at the Brussels Bar since 1989.
• Specialised in 1. International, EU and Belgian criminal law 2. International humanitarian law
• Has defended victims of various violations of fundamental rights in national and international courts:o Victims of genocide in Rwanda before the Belgian Assize courto Victims of war crimes committed by US troops in.
• Prosecutor in the Second Session of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal on the Philippines held in The Hague Netherlands in March 2007.
• Member of the International Legal Advisory Team to the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.
• Lead Council in the case of the Chief Political Consultant of the NDFP, Jose Maria Sison in a case before the Court of Justice of the European Union against the inclusion in the EU terrorist listing.

Bruxelles

Secretary-General of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council ECOSOC) since April 2014 www.iadllaw.org. Member of the Bureau of IADL since June 2005.

Trial observations in Turkey, Kuwait... in human rights related cases

Geneva

Member of the International Legal Advisory Team to the National Democratic Front of the Philippines in the peace talks between the NDF and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines.

Maastricht Area, Netherlands

Comparative Research on professional secrecy of lawyers in continental law system and lawyer-client privilege in common law systems (English)Taught courses on "Criminal procedure and Human Rights" and "Advanced studies of Criminal Procedure" (both in Dutch and English)