Elaine Pearson

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Elaine Pearson (* 1975 in Blacktown , New South Wales , Australia ) is a lawyer , human rights activist and journalist. She is Director of the Australian Human Rights Commission and also works as an Assistant Lecturer in Law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney . Elaine Pearson also works on behalf of the UN and other human rights organizations in Asia and London.

Early life

Pearson's father, a Qantas flight instructor , had four children from his first marriage. After his first wife died, he married Elaine Pearson's mother, a nurse who came from a Singaporean-Chinese family. Elaine Pearson grew up in this family first in the city of Blacktown before they moved to Perth in 1981 . She was politicized there on the occasion of a protest in 1997 against Pauline Hanson , the leading politician of the racist One Nation Party . After graduating, she spent time in numerous countries abroad.

education

In 1999 she received her Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts from Murdoch University and in 2013 her Masters in Public Policy from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

activity

In her role in the Australian human rights organization, she regularly teaches journalists and politicians on national and international human rights issues. She publishes in magazines such as Newsweek , Wall Street Journal , The Guardian and The Australian .

From 2007 to 2012 she was associate director of Asia Human Rights Watch in New York . She is also a board member of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women . She married in 2008 and returned to Australia in 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marc Dapin: Well-traveled Human Rights Watch Australia boss drawn back to home  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , dated December 17, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.smh.com.au  
  2. ↑ a b Elaine Pearson , October 26, 2015, on The Conversation. Retrieved March 19, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Pearson, Elaine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian journalist, human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Blacktown, New South Wales