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1993-2003: president of the Commission against discrimination in the Flemish school system, at VLOR, the Flemish Education Council.
From 1993 till 1999: member of the mediating commission in the contacts between muslim leaders and the minister of Justice in Belgium, preparing the ‘Muslim Executive’.
From 1993 till 2003: member of the task force in the fight against trafficking of human beings under the presidency of the Prime Minister. (Belgium)
From 1997 till 1998: member of the temporary regularisation commission of undocumented migrants under the presidency of the Minister of Home Affairs. (Belgium)
From 1999 on, counsellor of Volubilis, a round table of people from the culturally oppressed ‘minorities’ around the Mediterranean.
Former representative for Belgium at the so-called Commission Kahn, the European consultative commission on Integration, the commission that prepared the EUMC.
Former representative for Belgium at the EUMC, the European Monitoring Centre for racism and xenophobia (Vienna), from the beginning till 2003
Former representative for Belgium at ECRI, the European Committee against racism and intolerance (Strasboug), from 1993 till 2003.
Member of the order of dominicans
Awards
Awarded with the “Visser Neerlandia Prijs” for involvement in bicultural and multilingual education projects in Brussels.
Honorary citizen of the city of Kortrijk for commitment as director of the federal Centre for equal opportunities and fight against racism. (2002)