Appointed to the Advisory Board of the Poverty and Social Development and IBA Council Liaison, International Bar Association Legal Practice Division, May 2020

Provided key input to the IBA’s draft submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Its Causes and Consequences, in response to the call for submissions on the criminalization and prosecution of rape in the UK and Ireland, International Bar Association Subcommittee on Violence against Women, May 2020

As a Trustee, reviewed and commented on 14 reports submitted by two HRI Trust Interns.Intern A worked on a variety of international criminal law, international human rights law, and foreign law projects in collaboration with the Europe and Central Asia program lawyer, MENA program lawyer, and Director of the IBAHRI. Intern B researched facts and legal issues of the UK Supreme Court in Vedanta Resources PLC and another v Lungowe and others. The work tackled parent company liability for human rights violations. B also worked on numerous intervention letters, open letters, press releases, on the following issues: attacks against the legal profession and the ongoing protests against the government of President Omar al-Bashir in Sudan; the attack on protestors and the rule of law in Zimbabwe; the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria; moratorium on the death penalty in California; and the detention of human rights lawyers in China, Iran, and Turkey, IBA Human Rights Institute Trust, April 2020