Jean-Paul Van De Walle
LEGAL COUNSEL, EUROPE
Jean-Paul Van De Walle serves as legal counsel, Europe, for ADF International in Belgium (Brussels), advocating for religious freedom, life, and the family at the European Union.
Jean-Paul Van De Walle serves as legal counsel, Europe, for ADF International in Belgium (Brussels), advocating for religious freedom, life, and the family at the European Union.
Prior to joining ADF International, Van De Walle served as a lawyer for seven years before the Brussels Bar in a renowned law firm, handling lawsuits in Belgian torts law, insurance law, and contract law.
Having a long-time interest in bioethics, Van De Walle has been closely monitoring, from a legal and bioethical perspective, the life-related issues in Belgium during the last decade, in particular the debate on the end-of-life (Belgian Law on euthanasia) and the debate on the possible legalization of surrogacy. He has regularly spoken on those topics in the media and has been invited as a guest speaker to several conferences.
Van De Walle holds a Masters Degree in Law with a specialization in criminal and civil proceedings from the Catholic University of Louvain and a Bachelors Degree in Law from the University of Namur, both earned with honours. He is a native Dutch-French bilingual speaker.
[14:10] Ludwig Brühl Europe’s top human rights court upholds states’ right to safeguard life, rejects assisted suicide challenge [14:10] Ludwig Brühl Europe’s top human rights court upholds
Dániel Karsai, Hungarian national suffering from progressive neurodegenerative condition, seeks legalization of assisted suicide in Hungary before European Court of Human Rights in oral hearing today.
ADF International intervenes, submitting that Hungary is obligated to protect the right to life.
The rate of euthanasia in Belgium has increased from 235 lives lost per year (2003), to 7 lives lost per day (2021) .
European Parliament rejects motion to debate Christian persecution, in particular in the case of Deborah Yabuku, brutally murdered last week when her school peers accused her of blaspheming in a class group chat
Human rights experts have raised concerns about a ruling the Belgian Constitutional Court handed down on February 17th. The Court upheld amendments expanding the Belgian euthanasia law.
