Mr. Ashfaq Khalfan,
Kenya,
CISDL Director

akhalfan@cisdl.org

Ashfaq Khalfan B.C.L & LL.B (McGill), B.A. Hons. (McGill) is Coordinator of the Right to Water Programme at the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions. He co-authored Legal Resources for the Right to Water: National and International Standards (COHRE, 2004) and Monitoring the Right to Water: A Framework for Developing Indicators (Heinrich Boll Foundation, 2005) as well as several book chapters on national implementation of the right to water. He has provided legal and policy advice to international organisations and civil society organisations involved in international campaigns on the right to water.

He helped found and has served as a Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law since 1999. He is an author of Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practices and Prospects (Oxford University Press, 2004) with M. Cordonier Segger. He has written a range of book chapters and journal articles on legal and judicial reform, minority rights and constitutional reform, human rights and development financing and principles of international law related to sustainable development.

He has previously worked with the Federal Department of Justice in Canada and the Investigations Branch of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. He has also worked with the Law & Society Trust, a Sri Lankan human rights NGO where he coordinated the work of a civil society coalition on constitutional reform in 2000 and with the Kituo Cha Sheria (Legal Advice Centre) in Kenya carrying on research on insecurity in informal settlements. He has served as an editor on the Revue québécoise de droit international, a Montreal-based international law journal. He is from Kenya and speaks English, Swahili and French.