Dubravka Šimonović

Croatian jurist and human rights scholar

Dubravka Šimonović (born 1958^[1]) is a Croatian jurist and specialist in human rights. She was appointed on 1 August 2015 as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, and is Visiting Professor in Practice in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Šimonović was born in Zagreb.^[1] She has a Master's degree and a doctorate in family law, both from the University of Zagreb.^[4]^[3]

Šimonović was questioned as to why she chose to visit Australia and the Bahamas, nations with low rates of violence against women or low population respectively, to investigate violence against women as part of her work as a UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women rather than nations with high levels of violence or large population.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Violència Obstètrica, i l'històric informe de l'ONU". MUM'S MGZ (in Catalan). 6 October 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
^ "Dr Dubravka Šimonovic". Centre for Women, Peace and Security. London School of Economics. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Dubravka Šimonović, Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences". www.ohchr.org. United Nations: Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Dubravka Simonovic, Chair, Commission on the Status of Women". www.un.org. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
^ "UN expert on violence against women visits only Australia and the Bahamas". 29 June 2018.

External links

"Interview with Ms Dubravka Šimonović, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against women". UNIC Canberra. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2020. Audio interview 7m 45s

United Nations special rapporteurs

Countries and territories

Burundi (Fortuné Gaetan Zongo)
Cambodia (Vitit Muntarbhorn)
Iran (Javaid Rehman)
Myanmar (Tom Andrews)
North Korea (Elizabeth Salmón)
Palestine (Francesca Albanese)
Somalia (Isha Dyfan)

Thematic mandates

Adequate Housing (Balakrishnan Rajagopal)
Contemporary Forms of Slavery (Tomoya Obokata)
Cultural Rights (Alexandra Xanthaki)
Democratic and Equitable International Order (Livingstone Sewanyana)
Education (Farida Shaheed)
Effects of Economic Reform Policies and Foreign Debt on Human Rights (Attiya Waris)
Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (Morris Tidball-Binz)
Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association (Clément Nyaletsossi Voule)
Freedom of Opinion and Expression (Irene Khan)
Freedom of Religion or Belief (Nazila Ghanea)
Human Rights Defenders (Mary Lawlor)
Independence of Judges and Lawyers (Margaret Satterthwaite)
Minority Issues (Fernand de Varennes)
Negative Impact of the Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights (Alena Douhan)
Physical and Mental Health (Tlaleng Mofokeng)
Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism (Ben Saul)
Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (Ashwini K.P.)
Right to Food (Michael Fakhri)
Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children (Najat Maalla M'jid)
Torture (Alice Jill Edwards)
Trafficking in Persons (Siobhán Mullally)
Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of non-Recurrence (Fabián Salvioli)
Violence against Women (Reem Alsalem)
Human Rights and Access to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation (Pedro Arrojo Agudo)
Human Rights and International Solidarity (Cecilia Bailliet)
Human Rights and the Illicit Movement of Toxic Waste (Marcos A. Orellana)
Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises (Damilola Olawuyi)
Human Rights of Indigenous People (Francisco Cali Tzay)
Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (Paula Gaviria Betancur)
Human Rights of Migrants (François Crépeau)
Human Rights and the Environment (David Boyd)

United Nations special rapporteurs bear mandates from the United Nations Human Rights Council and may hold the titles special rapporteur, independent expert or special representative of the Secretary-General, and are also referred to simply as mandate-holders.