Ms. Mahon is the joint Coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, a Research Associate and occassional Senior Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Research Unit on the Right to Food), and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She also regularly teaches as a guest lecturer in various university courses on the topics of international human rights law, international organisations and public international law.
She has previously worked for Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, the International Service for Human Rights, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, and the UNOffice of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Her work has focused on monitoring economic, social and cultural rights, including in the field. She has experience in designing and providing training on international human rights law and practice to diplomats, advocates, field officers, UN staff, and students in over 20 countries.
See more of Ms. Mahon's
bio here: http://clairemahon.net/bio.
Submitted by UW Law School Newsletter Admin on November 7, 2008
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