Ibrahim Salama

Dr Ibrahim Salama is the Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch at the Office of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), where he also leads the ‘Faith for Rights’ programme.

Previously, he headed the UN Secretariat for the preparatory process of the 2009 UN World Conference Against Racism (Durban Review Conference), and was also an independent expert of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, and the Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development.

In 2019, as a Visiting Fellow at the Geneva Academy, he carried out research on the human rights role and responsibilities of religious actors, attempting to provide a draft human rights toolbox for human rights training for faith actors. As a result, he co-authored, together with Michael Wiener, the book Reconciling Religion and Human Rights: Faith in Multilateralism (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022) as well as the article ‘Faith for Rights’ in Armed Conflict: Lessons from Practice (Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2023).