The Noble Banner of Human Rights: Essays in Memory of Tom Lantos

Tom Lantos was a Hungarian-born U.S. Congressman remembered for raising awareness and respect for human rights around the world. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1980 becoming the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the Congress. In 1983 he co-founded and chaired the Congressional Human Rights Caucus renamed in his honour as the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. With articles authored by leading academics this Festschrift remembers Tom Lantos’s extensive human rights activism on the human rights themes he was passionately involved with around the world. The essays offer new insights on a range of topical human rights issues, such as human rights education, religious freedom, post-conflict justice, minority rights and identity politics.

Katrina Lantos Swett, PhD, is President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice and serves as the Co-Chair of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Dr. Lantos Swett previously served as Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and she is an adjunct professor at Tufts University.

Anna-Mária Bíró, PhD, is the Director of the Tom Lantos Institute. She directed the Europe Office of Minority Rights Group International (MRG) and worked as an Advisor on Minority Affairs at the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. She advocated and published extensively in the field of international minority protection.