Modern-Day Crusaders: Religious Extremism and the Erosion of Democracy in Europe

HUM:Global Talk! with Neil Datta, Executive Director of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights.

Neil Datta has been at the helm of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights since 2004. Neil founded the organisation with a select group of parliamentarians and with the support of IPPF in 2000 and has been responsible for its growth to its current membership of over 30 all-party parliamentary groups on population and development issues. 

Datta has over fifteen years of experience in the field of political involvement in population and development. Throughout this period he has conducted in-depth research on anti-choice activity in Europe, publishing a report in 2018 that continues to receive worldwide media attention. Before founding EPF, Neil coordinated the Parliamentary Programme of the International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network. Datta holds a Master's Degree in European Public Administration from the  College of Europe in Bruges and a Bachelor of Arts in History and  Languages from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Neil holds five nationalities and is bilingual in English and French.