Date: Monday 11 December
Time: 1-2pm
Location: Seminar Room, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway
Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, former United Nations Special Rapporteur and Independent Expert to the UN on extreme poverty and human rights, will deliver a lecture "The Obligation to Mobilise Resources for the Realisation of Human Rights" on Monday, 11th of December, 1-2pm, Seminar Room, Irish Centre for Human Rights.
Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona was the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights between May 2008 and June 2014 and is currently based at the UN Research Institute for Social Development.
Ms. Sepulveda is a Chilean lawyer who holds a Ph.D in International Human Rights Law from Utrecht University in the Netherlands; an LL.M in human rights law from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and a post graduate diploma in comparative law from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Ms. Sepulveda has worked as a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, as a staff attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and as the Co-Director of the Department of International Law and Human Rights of the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica. She also served as a consultant to the Division of International Protection of UNHCR and to the Norwegian Refugee Council in Colombia. More recently she has been Research Director at the International Council on Human Rights Policy in Geneva and Associate Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.
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