Professor Malcolm Evans, OBE, will be a keynote speaker at the  20th Annual International Law and Religion Symposium, "Religion and Human Rights," to be held 6-8 October 2013 at Brigham Young University. Professor Evans will also receive the Center's 2013 Distinguished Service Award for his many contributions to the promotion of freedom of religion or belief and the protection of human rights worldwide.

Malcolm Evans is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol Law School and Chair of the United Nations Sub-Committee for the Prevention of Torture. He is a member of the UK Foreign Secretary's Advisory Group on Human Rights and of the Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe's Advisory Council of Freedom of Religion and Belief and has worked extensively with numerous international organizations on a broad range of human rights issues. As Deputy Director of the Human Rights Implementation Centre (HRiC) within the School of Law he is involved in a wide variety of its funded research projects, in particular those in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and in Africa.