Madeleine Rees

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Rees in London at the presentation of the 2012 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report on April 15, 2013

Madeleine Rees OBE (born before 1990) is a British lawyer , attorney and current Secretary General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom . She spoke out against human rights violations in Bosnia by peacekeeping forces and other United Nations employees .

Live and act

Rees became a lawyer in 1990 and worked for a large UK law firm and became a partner there in 1994. There she specialized in anti-discrimination law, especially in the area of ​​labor and employment law as well as public law and administrative law. Rees worked on behalf of the Racial Equality Commission and Equal Opportunities Commission , where she helped secure individuals' rights under national law. Cases of discrimination have been heard by Rees in both the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg .

Bosnia

In 1998, Rees began working as Head of the Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina and as an Equality Expert for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights . Through her support, she helped Kathryn Bolkovac in Bosnia to uncover human rights violations in connection with human trafficking and sexual exploitation , as well as the participation of IPTF employees and other UN mission members.

Rees was transferred from her position in 2009 and was ultimately fired in March 2010. An internal UN tribunal for administrative disputes decided that she had a right to protection against dismissal. The UNHCR denied the allegations, stating that Rees was first reassigned and reassigned to a new role that she did not accept because of manager complaints about her job performance. However, the UN Tribunal Judge Coral Shaw ruled that Ree's reassignment to a new assignment was illegal.

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Madeleine Rees has been Secretary General of the organization since 2010.

media

She was played by Vanessa Redgrave in the 2010 film Whistleblower .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b WILPF | Madeleine Rees ( English ) Wilpfinternational.org. Archived from the original on September 29, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 10, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wilpfinternational.org
  2. ^ Antony Barnett and Solomon Hughes: British firm accused in UN 'sex scandal' | World news | The Observer ( English ) The Guardian . July 29, 2001. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  3. ↑ The Scotsman: Bosnia sex trade shames UN - World ( English ) The Scotsman. February 9, 2003. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  4. ↑ http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/16/un_sex_crimes_whistleblower_was_wrongfully_dismissed
  5. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0238328/
personal data
SURNAME Rees, Madeleine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century