Christine Chinkin

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Christine Mary Chinkin (born 1949) is a Professor of International Law and founding Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science [1] and the William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School.

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She was a member of the four-person United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict created by the United Nations Human Rights Council. [2] The commission's Report accused Israel of intentionally targeting civilians, which caused great outrage in Israel. [3] The head of the commission Richard Goldstone subsequently changed his mind, but three other commission members (including Chinkin) continued to insist on the correctness of their conclusions despite the fact that "no domestic investigations at all have been started into any of the allegations of international crimes committed by members of Palestinian armed groups in Gaza". [4] [5]

From January 2010, she is a member of the Human Rights Advisory Panel [6] of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo. She is the Chair of the International Law Association, appointed in 2021.

Chinkin studied law at the University of London, earning an LLB with honors in 1971 and an LLM in 1972. She later received a second LLM from the Yale Law School in 1981 and completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 1990. She has served on the law faculty at the University of Sydney and as dean of the law faculty at the University of Southampton. [7]

She was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to advancing women's human rights worldwide. [8]

Christine Chinkin was scientific advisor to the Council of Europe Committee that drafted the Istanbul Convention. She is currently a member of the steering board of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative of the UK Government, and specialist advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict.

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  1. ↑ "Christine Chinkin". The Guardian. London. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
  2. ↑ "Human Rights Council to discuss recent UN probe into Gaza conflict". UN News Centre. 13 October 2009. Retrieved 16 October 2009.
  3. ↑ https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/121064/notes_internacionals_13.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/apr/14/goldstone-report-statement-un-gaza
  5. ↑ http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/04/14/israel.goldstone.report/index.html
  6. ↑ "The Human Rights Advisory Panel". UNMIK DPI. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Chinkin, Christine M." Michigan Law. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "No. 61962". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2017. p. B3.
  9. ↑ "Order of Saint Michael and Saint George". The Gazette. 17 June 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  10. ↑ "Elections to the Fellowship 2009 - British Academy". 6 December 2010. Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 31 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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