23 Facts About Joke Swiebel

Joke Swiebel was born on 1941 and is a Dutch political scientist, and a former policy maker, politician and activist.

Joke Swiebel served as first chair of the Federation of Student Working Groups on Homosexuality and on the board of the COC Nederland while a student.

From 1977, Swiebel worked at various government departments on policies for gender equality.

In 1999, Joke Swiebel was elected to serve as a Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Labour Party, which she did through 2004.

Joke Swiebel's focus was on human rights policy and she participated in discussions, introduced legislation, and wrote reports during her tenure regarding migration, women's rights, LGBT inclusion, and other issues.

Joke Swiebel's written works have focused on policy and human rights implementation.

Joke Swiebel was born on 28 November 1941 in The Hague, Netherlands.

Joke Swiebel's mother worked as a kindergarten teacher prior to marriage and her father, Cornelis Marinus Swiebel, served as the general secretary of the Social Security Council.

Joke Swiebel was a member of the South Holland Provincial Council.

Joke Swiebel attended the Montessori Lyceum in the Hague, graduating in 1960 and continued her education at the University of Amsterdam where she studied political science.

In 1963, Joke Swiebel joined the Dutch Labour Party, which was a successor of the SDAP.

In 1968, Joke Swiebel was elected as the national chair of the newly formed Federatie Studenten Werkgroepen Homoseksualiteit.

Joke Swiebel ran the political science library at the University of Amsterdam between 1972 and 1977.

Joke Swiebel served as a senior civil servant at the Department for the Co-ordination of Emancipation Policy in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment in 1982 and served in that capacity until 1995.

Simultaneously, Joke Swiebel began serving as the head of the Dutch delegation for the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 1988 and was the vice chair of the commission in 1992 and 1993.

Joke Swiebel continued her service until 1995 and that year participated in the Dutch government's delegation to the United Nations' World Conference on Women, held in Beijing.

From 1995, Joke Swiebel worked in various positions at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, simultaneously serving as the chair of the Council of Europe's Steering Committee for Equality between 1989 and 1995.

Joke Swiebel proposed anti-discrimination legislation and an expansion of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Joke Swiebel worked on expanding equal opportunities for, and equal treatment of all persons in the member states and stressed the need to analyze the impact of anti-terrorism policies on human rights, noting that police misconduct and judicial deficiencies often impacted citizen's rights.

Joke Swiebel was one of the primary drafters of the Declaration of Montreal.

Joke Swiebel's published works focus on human rights and policy.

Between 2013 and 2017, Joke Swiebel was chair of the Clara Wichmann Association for Women and Law.

In 2019, Joke Swiebel was awarded the Ministry of Emancipation's Jos Brink Oeuvre Prize, for her lifetime of work on behalf of the LGBT community.