Prof. Bruna Molina

J.D. private (Jesuit) University of “San Salvador”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
LLM, Comparative Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Work experience:
International commercial transaction. Private law firms in Buenos Aires, Argentina and California, USA, respectively.

Since 1979, worked at the United Nations in the Office of Human Rights and Legal Affairs. Served the Commission of Human Rights for twelve consecutive years.

Responsible for Special Procedures mandates, Technical Assistance Programmes and Human Rights Field Operations.

In 1993, joined the Office of Legal Affairs as Deputy-Secretary of the Commission of Experts on Former Yugoslavia. Conducted several on site investigatory missions and drafted reports for the Security Council in preparation for the International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague. Further, in 1994, served as Secretary of the Commission of Experts on Rwanda and submitted final report on the investigation to the Security Council.

In 1997, appointed Chief of the UN Commission on Human Rights Thematic Mandates covering the areas of protection of civil and political rights (Summary Executions, Disappearances, Torture, Religious Intolerance, Racial Discrimination. Internally Displaced, Violence against women, Abuse of Children, Independence of the Judiciary, Freedom of Opinion and Expression and Mass Exoduses) and economic, social and cultural rights (Right to Development, Extreme Poverty and Migrant Workers).

As of June 2002, Director of the World Federation of the UN Associations, Geneva, Switzerland.

Professor at Webster University since August 1992.

Professor at Geneva School of Diplomacy since 2004.

Courses taught: International Human Rights Law, Human Rights Issues

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