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Nicoletta Pikramenou, PhD

Scientific activity

2023 – Member of the research team ‘Abortion Figurations’, University of Warsaw
2022 – Visiting Scholar, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain
2019 – PhD, Law Faculty of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, co-supervised by Uppsala University
2017 – Human Rights Fellow, European Union Delegation to the United Nations, New York
2016 – Research Fellow, European University Viadrina
2014 – MA, European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation, European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratisation
2013 – MA, Law Faculty of the University of Strasbourg
2011 – Law degree, Law Faculty of Democritus University, Thrace, Greece
2006 – Baccalaureate, Ecole Grecofrançaise des Ursulines

Scientific interests

Human rights, women’s rights, LGBTIQ rights with a focus on intersex rights, queer law.
She works on how legal frameworks can evolve to reflect and address the needs of people who fall outside the female/male binary. She is a legal advocate for intersex rights at national, EU and UN levels (with Intersex Greece) and therefore works as well on the role of social movements and the law.

Selected publications

Books

  • Intersex Rights. Living between sexes, Springer, 2019, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-27554-9.
  • Queer discriminations: A guide for legal experts, Greek Academic Electronic Books and Manuals-Kallipos, funded by the National Technical University of Athens (forthcoming in Greek in 2023).

Book chapters

  • Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law- A Practicioner’s Guide, eds. Zelle, Wilson, Adam, Greene, Chapter 20 “Brazil”, Wolter Kruwer, 2020, ISBN: 9781543820683.

Articles

  • Intersex masculinity and the right to self-determination (in Greek), VolumeDimensions of Masculinity”, Papanis E., Bouna A. (eds), Idiepia, 2020, ISBN: 978-618-5471-19-4.
  • Intersex athletes: invisible victims in the language of gender-based violence, Agenda Feminist Journal, Routledge, Taylor & Francis group https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2019.1706987, 2020
  • Raising Indigenous women’s voices for equal rights and self-determination, New England Journal of Public Policy, Volume 31, Issue 2 Special Issue: ICO, Article 9, University of Massachusetts https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1759&context=nejpp
  • Make Every African Woman Leader Count, Agenda Feminist Journal, Routledge, Taylor & Francis group, DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2019.1605835, https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2019.1605835, Published online: 24 May 2019.

Projects

Projects in progress
  • 2023 – Expert on intersex rights, Council of Europe, recommendations on intersex
  • 2022 – Expert on intersex rights, Greek Ministry of Health, preparatory committee for the law on IGM ban in Greece
Completed projects

2021 – 2022 – Researcher, Intersex Greece & ILGA Europe, hate speech against intersex people in Greece
2021 – 2022 – Consultant researcher on intersex rights in the EU, ICF for DG JUST European Commission
2021 – 2022 – Consultant researcher, Make Every Woman Count for EqualityNow and UNDP, training manual on periodic reporting on women’s rights in Africa
2021 – 2022 – Consultant researcher on intersex rights in South Asia, Westminster Foundation for Democracy
2016 – 2022 – Political Participation Monitoring Coordinator, Make Every Woman Count
2016 – 2018 – Women Speak Researcher, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network