Rashida Manjoo
Rashida Manjoo was the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women until July 2015. She was appointed in June 2009. In June 2015 the Human Rights Council appointed Dr. Dubravka Šimonović has the new Special Rapporteaur on Violence Against Women.[1][2]
A South African national, Manjoo is a professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town.[3] She has served as the Parliamentary commissioner on South Africa's Commission on Gender Equality, the Des Lee Distinguished Visiting Professor at Webster University, and the Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow with Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session29/Pages/29RegularSession.aspx
- 1 2 "Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences", United Nations Human Rights.
- ↑ "Violence against women and girls a human rights violation, says UCT academic", University of Cape Town, 12 August 2014.
Further reading
- Statement by Ms. Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its causes and consequences", Commission on the Status of Women, Fifty-eighth session, 11 March 2014.
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